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Teaching current events literacy through student newscast creation

Overview of activity, purpose of activity, rationale behind choice: Students are encouraged to read the newspaper regularly, to build a sense of civic obligation, to learn about current events, and to think critically about important issues.

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Language and cultural barriers in international social media marketing

Social Networking through such sites as MySpace and Facebook has become a popular and virally spreading interest in the United States. Such online contexts for community and group orientation and networking have originated in the U.S.

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Social injustice in eighteenth-century poetry and legislation

The three texts reviewed in this work are those as follows: Mary Collier (1739) the Woman's Labour and Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; in Answer to his late Poem, called the Thresher's Labour.

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Vladimir Lenin's theory of democratic centralism and its influence on Soviet ideology

Prior to "Leninism" refers to the political and economic theories of Vladimir Lenin, which, according to the Princeton University Web site, provided "the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union." Those theories by Lenin were built around Marxism, and it is important to note that Lenin believed that…

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Sociolinguistics: definition, applications, and social relevance

Few students even know what sociolinguistics is, much less its practical applications and relevance to other fields of study.

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Rock music, drugs, and the baby boom generation

The "Baby Boom" generation is known as those individuals born in the years immediately following the Second World War.

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ProjectDesk software evaluation for small business collaboration

ProjectDesk is an entirely Web-based low-end project management and collaboration application which is designed for the more fundamental processes and tasks in a project management.

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Ford Motor Company's downsizing strategy and labor force reduction

Globalization is a word we hear everyday now and this is because of its major influences upon all features of life. Globalization has freed markets and liberalized the trade of goods, services, capital and even the labour force.

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Defining Americanism: cultural dominance and political imperialism

It is rather hard to find a proper definition of the notion of Americanism. There are certain views which in the end determine the actual perspective of a possible definition. In this sense, Americanism can be understood as being the expression of the cultural dominance of the American spirit.

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Joan of Arc's military leadership and religious mission in France

Pernoud, Regine with Marie-Vbronique Clin. Joan of Arc, Her Story. Revised and translated by Jeremy du Quesnay Adams. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler. New York: Palgrave, 1999. pp336. $11.96.

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