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Ong and Appadurai on global economy and cultural struggle

The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity" by Aihwa Ong and "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Community" by Arjun Appadurai both offer perspectives on the impact of the changing global economy. These two articles will now be analysed in turn.

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Evaluating the logical fallacies in a college funding protest argument

The other 12,000 California State College students evidently weren't so concerned about their education; they either stayed on campus or left for winter break.

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Richard Foster's "Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home"

Richard J. Foster is the author of many best selling books, which includes the most famous "Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living of Water." He is also the founder of Renovare an infrachurch movement that is dedicated to the restoration of the Church in all her comprehensive expressions.

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Pericles' rhetorical strategies and their influence on Athens

"The Art of Rhetoric" makes the point that Pericles had great powers of persuasion, and that he could directly affect the will of the people through his rhetorical strategies.

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Philosophical and scientific approaches to the afterlife question

Is there such a thing as life after death? This is a question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, scientists, and religions for centuries.

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Cost-effectiveness of death penalty versus life sentences

This paper addresses the question: Is it more cost effective to enforce the death penalty for murders over a life sentence? Several topics will be covered such as why it could be cost effective and why it has not been cost effective.

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Early intervention and alternative schools for at-risk students

Specifically, the author sought out articles about special attention and special case schools for troubled youth as well as the use of pre-kindergarten programs to give at-risk and other youth a head start before they enter the somewhat chaotic system that every other child must traverse.

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Intersectionality theory and feminist perspectives on oppression

The primary distinction between the perspectives of Patricia Hill Collins and Esther Chow on feminism and gender consciousness stems from their diverse interpretations of the influence of culture.

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Martin Luther King's rhetoric in the Birmingham jail letter

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail is written to his "fellow clergymen" and is meant to serve as a rebuttal to their charges that his protests, which have landed him in jail, are "unwise and untimely" (King, Jr.).

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Persuasion in video advertising: elements and strategies

Persuasion is defined as the procedure through which a message or information provokes a change in attitudes, beliefs or behaviors (Myers, 2013).

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