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J.K. Rowling's journey from teacher to published author

Joanne Kathleen (JK) Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Ms. Rowling claims that she had been writing since she was 5 or 6 years old.

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Outsourcing white-collar jobs from Britain to India and beyond

Outsourcing is the term given to the work that is done by anyone other than the full time employees of an organization.

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The British education system as a ladder of opportunity or mechanism of class reproduction

Education system a "ladder of opportunity" or does it simply reflect, reinforce and reproduce existing class differences?

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Qatar's oil and gas economy and political development

Al Thani family ruled Qatar from the mid-1800s. It slowly changed itself from a poor British territory renowned mainly for pearling into an independent state with large oil and natural gas revenues.

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How immigrants built communities and agency in early 1900s America

In establishing themselves in America, immigrants were subject to conditions to which they were forced to adjust without any control, such as places of habitation and adapting to American laws. However, immigrants also had some degree of agency that allowed them to take control of their lives.

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Violence and morality in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

This paper discusses the film Pulp Fiction in connection with cultural perceptions of good vs.

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Loyalist arguments for American reconciliation with Great Britain

In this year of 1775, in this month of May, at this Second Continental Congress, during a time of economic and political divisions and trials -- both within the colonies and between the colonies and our mother country, it is very easy to demean and dishonor the names of loyalists to the crown as…

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Cultural values and nursing assessment of Japanese clients

This interview was conducted with a Ms. X, a Japanese national visiting friends in another country. She was, over the course of the interview, asked about a number of personal and culturally sensitive factors about her native culture that might affect a nursing intervention.

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Bradford and de Champlain's portrayals of Native Americans in seventeenth-century narratives

Analysis of William Bradford's and Samuel de Champlain's Narratives of the life of native American-Indians in the Americas in the 17th century

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American Sign Language interpreters in educational settings and deaf students

The objective in this research in focus upon American Sign Language Interpreters in educational settings. The issue of deafness in today's schools is being addressed by society and most specifically "special education.

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