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The American Association of People with Disabilities: advocacy and structure

The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is the largest cross-disability membership organization in the nation. The agency serves multiple purposes, the most fundamental of which is advocacy.

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Generational reform cycles and environmental policy progress in the United States

In answering the question of whether the United States has improved on environmental policy since the 1930s, the cyclical nature of the political system must be considered.

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Political conceptions of virtue and justice in Aristotle, Hobbes, and Machiavelli

What are the different conceptions of knowledge that inform Hobbes's and Aristotle's respective accounts of politics? Be specific about questions of individualism, virtue, and justice. In Bellah's terms, what kind of politics would they support?

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Online learning policy challenges in four-year universities

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). (2010). "A-P-L-U-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning"

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Corporate externalities and anthropogenic environmental threats

The days in which institutions could ethically overlook the negative externalities they inflict on society have long since vanished with the introduction of a scientific consensus on anthropogenic influences and the effects they have on the health of the planet.

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Improving board meeting effectiveness at a nonprofit radio station

In response to a series of unattended Board of Directors meetings in the last several Quarters, the following is an organizational analysis intended to support communications on Company activities for report to investors and stakeholders.

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Hospital liability for patient falls and medication errors during natural disasters

Identify and explain at least three legal considerations. The main issue in this case is the snow storm. Is it the hospital's responsibility to maintain the level of care that they had previously promised when a natural occurrence causes a lack of staff?

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Slavery's expansion and racial legacy in nineteenth-century America

Any discussion of 19th century American history that omits slavery is incomplete, because slavery was such a significant fact of life during that time period that it impacted all people, whether slave or free, and whether they lived in a slave state or a state that prohibited slavery.

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Industrial revolution and religious revival in early America

Federalist Papers, the U.S. Constitution was ratified in the late 1780's by the original 13 states. But this new nation would experience a myriad of other changes by the turn of the century. With a new political system, westward expansionism and manifest destiny would guide the new American spirit.

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Social class divisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Taxation has long been a contentious issue among the different classes of American society. The 1960s witnessed the beginning of the end of the old industrial economy.

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