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The evolving historical role of women in marriage

Marriage is a ubiquitous social institution in our culture: it affects everything from how members of a married couple are defined by their families to their health insurance and how much they pay in taxes. Marriage dominates the cultural landscape of films, television shows, and Hallmark cards.

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Miroslaw Pawlak's reconsidering error correction in foreign language classrooms

Error correction in the foreign classroom has become an extensively researched, but also very contentious topic of conversation among experts, researchers, and teachers in the field.

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My personal mission statement and five-year career plan

I hope to learn enough about the financial world to find a place in it for my career. Ultimately, I want to be successful and obtain financial security.

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Lieutenant Gedney's libel and the Amistad salvage claim

The story of the Amistad has become part of the less glamorous history in the United States and the wider Western world in terms of the human rights violation that was slavery.

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School-based hypertension intervention for African-American adolescents

The study sought to determine whether an intervention with African-American students between the ages of 14 -- 17 would be efficacious. The problem is that there is a higher incidence of HTN in African-Americans than in almost any other demographic.

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Understanding French identity through history, culture, and immigration

I do feel that this course has utilized a transdisciplinary approach to studying France. We have studied some of the key elements of French history but also its modern popular culture as well.

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Analyzing Prater Violet through Eagleton's literary theories

Often, when writing a literary work, authors are focused so much on their personal views and intentions with the story that no literary theory comes to mind. Furthermore, writers are seldom concerned with adhering to or promoting any specific theory.

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Corporate domination and cultural commodification in Times Square

Sharon Zukin's Whose Culture? Whose City? My visit to Times Square confirmed that Sharon Zukin's characterization about the corporate domination of the landscape is quite accurate.

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The importance of celebrating United States military branch birthdays

I inspire motivate a crowd history importance Military Birthdays. I talk actual dates speak extremely important person important birth service.

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BMW's website marketing strategy and brand positioning differentiation

BMW's website, as part of the company's overall marketing campaign, seeks to establish the company as an innovator. For example, under BMW i, there is the tag line "the future of mobility," and the copy focuses predominantly on the innovative engineering and design features of its vehicles.

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