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Cultural bias in standardized testing and minority student discrimination

Cultural bias is interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture. Let's see how that applies to bias in testing.

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Child abuse's effects on Erik Erikson's developmental stages

Child abuse is a pressing problem that knows no race, color, ethnicity or religion. It transcends geographic lines and cuts across socio-economic brackets.

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Defining quality television through educational and purposeful content

Some critics might allege that the phrase 'quality TV' is an oxymoron -- that there is no such thing as quality television, and every hour spent in front of a television is wasted time.

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Greek influence on Roman religion, family values, and military development

The history of the Roman Empire has long been a topic of discussion amongst those who are interested in ancient political and social structures. The purpose of this discussion is to explore the subject of the Roman Empire and the impact of this empire on historic events in the world.

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Ethical dilemmas in wireless internet access and installation practices

Selling broadband Internet access that includes wireless access is an area of services marketing that is troubling.

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The transformation of job security and the American workplace through downsizing

One of the harsh realities of working in the 21st century is a fundamental change in the social contract from years past wherein American workers were virtually assured of a job for their lifetimes providing they worked hard and demonstrated loyalty to their companies.

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Goodness in Aristotle's ethics and Dante's Inferno compared

In the perpetually ongoing discourse of philosophy, the most frequently referenced pursuits with regard to the human experience are knowledge, goodness and happiness.

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Robert Sherfield's approach to building healthy self-esteem and self-concept

Sherfield, Robert. The Everything Self-Esteem Book. New York: Adams Media, 2003. Author Robert Sherfield begins his self-help tome the Everything Self-Esteem Book admitting that self-esteem has been getting a 'bad rap' in the media (Sherfield 6).

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Leadership and ethics in Michael Hoffman's the Emperor's Club

When viewing Michael Hoffman's the Emperor's Club, students of leadership and ethics are stunned with the implications of this film about high school students and their history teacher.

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Facial recognition surveillance and panopticism in urban spaces

This work intends to examine how biometrics, or technologies of surveillance operates to produce and regulate certain kinds of subjects and to answer the question of 'what forms of social power are produced by gathering visual information?

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