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Narrative analysis and institutional bias in healthcare decision-making

Crepeau (2000) entitled "Reconstructing Gloria" attempts to unsettle rather than describe or confirm existing healthcare paradigms by using a narrative analysis of the team meetings of hospital workers at a mental health facility.

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The corporeal manifestation of race and health outcomes in marginalized communities

Race represents the recognition of otherness, but in contrast to the many other ways that people choose to group individuals, the outward differences society associates with race is inherently unchangeable.

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Urban legends and society's fears in media culture

Urban legends about in our culture, as Neal Gabler points out in "How Urban Myths Reveal Society's Fears." Some urban myths started out as true stories but were later exaggerated to become the hyperbole they are now. For example, some rappers really are from the projects -- the ghetto.

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Concrete imagery in Fairy Soap advertising and psycholinguistic manipulation

The 'Fairy Soap' advertisement was used and investigated for the use of concrete imagery -- a strategy of psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics says that concrete imagery not only forges associations but also makes imagery more vivid and helps reader comprehend and faster remember words.

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Steven Mintz's "Moralists and Modernizers": Pre-Civil War American Reform

In the decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the Civil War, the United States and many Western European nations were engaged in societal changes which continue to this day.

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Ethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research

The term 'stem cells' can mean different things to different people. For some, it conjures images of medical miracles providing solutions for heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. For others, it terrifies with a future filled with cloned humans.

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Walden Bello's analysis of the global food crisis and commodity prices

Walden Bello's book The Food Wars is not a meaty book in terms of length, but it covers an issue all of us are and should be concerned with: food. Bello is certainly qualified to discuss this topic.

~9 min read

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Moral conflict and class rage in Faulkner's "Barn Burning"

Topography and spacial relations have a uniquely important role in William Faulkner's literary works. Faulkner's works are often interpreted as literal depictions of his life growing up in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Unregulated education and reason in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, considered by many to be one of the first science-fiction novels written, is rife with anti-Enlightenment undertones.

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Dwight N. Hopkins and black liberation theology

The biblical presentation of human existence and its origin and our own experience of human life in this world are to accept the fact that Adam and Eve were real persons and they are the descents of all human beings.

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