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The "Trash for Cash" program: persuasive memo analysis and employee compliance

We all know that we are in an era of cost savings and budget trimming. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your departmental and individual efforts thus far, and your continued mindfulness of the important to trim budgets whenever possible.

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Children's awareness of racial discrimination and its effects on self-esteem

The researchers conducted a series of interview with children from seven to 12 years old in which one of the most crucial criteria was determining whether or not the youths could define racism themselves.

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Malcolm X and Richard Rodriguez: language, education, and identity

Malcolm X while in prison decides to start writing to friends he had been with in the thieving and doping world who unfortunately never replied to his letters because they were too uneducated to write a letter.

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Money, power, and emotional restraint in Kipling's "Mary Postgate"

Rudyard Kipling's "Mary Postgate" is set during World War I, at a time when British social hierarchies were at their peak in the wake of the Victorian Era and at the dawn of a new world order. Postgate seems to have her pulse on the shifting values and norms that unfold throughout her generation.

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Emily-Rose's diagnosis: ME/CFS, cultural beliefs, and healthcare understanding

Emily-Rose had just turned 36 and was in her first semester at university when her world began to crumble. This could not have come at a worse time as she has always looked forward to doing a Health Studies degree.

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Addressing the achievement gap: rewards and challenges in teaching

What are three rewards and three challenges that you will face as a teacher? As a rabid student of popular culture, I have been interested in the so-called "achievement gap" in education, popularized in the media, the political spectrum, and even within contemporary business culture.

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Graduate application for master's degree in city and regional planning

In the Middle East, comprehensive and regional planning are not as developed as needed within the 21st century paradigm.

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Cultural identity and worldview of Danny, a Han Chinese college student

Below is the profile of a college Freshman using the ADRESING format by Hays (Hays; Hays 309-315) This method of assessment of cultural awareness is used by many clinical psychologists in order to guarantee cultural sensitivity during therapy and to provide culturally relevant care:

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Cultural conflict in The New World and Black Robe

Both Terrence Malick's "The New World" and Bruce Beresford's "Black Robe" deal with themes of Native American encounters with European settlers and how it impacted both parties.

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Legal and illegal immigration: causes, effects, and American policy

America is sometimes referred to as a "nation of immigrants" because of our largely open-door policy toward accepting foreigners who pursuing their vision of the American Dream.

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