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Spanish missions and settlements in California from 1542 to 1822

In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown, sailed from western Mexico north to San Diego Bay, claiming the "Island of California" (he was mistaken) for Spain.

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Identifying and overcoming obstacles to creative thinking

After reading this chapter, I am convinced that creative thinking is necessary in many parts of life. Without creative thinking, change could not occur, and change must occur for cultures, businesses, people, and a host of other organizations to survive.

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Globalization, agriculture, and economic inequality between Mexico and the United States

The promise of globalization in the late 1980s and 1990s has given way to a host of problems with this new and still emerging world order, some of which were predicted early on in the scheme of things.

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Maya Angelou's search for love and male relationships in *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

Maya Angelou is one of America's most well-known and best loved poets. Due to her status as an African-American female, however, the country and its other citizens did not always treat her with the same respect and honor that she has now.

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DuPont's organizational change management: assessing OD, appreciative inquiry, and sense-making

As Tom Harris and the management team of the DuPont Orlon manufacturer center ready for their plant to be shut down and relocated to China, it is apparent there is no change management plan or strategy in place, in addition to no specific timeline for managing the transition.

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Aromatherapy's efficacy in managing symptoms of critically ill patients

Complimentary medicines have long been a subject of debate in Western medicine, especially in the United States, but a renewed interest in them has occurred over the past several decades (Halm 2008).

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Principal supervision of teachers and instructional improvement

Educational leadership is one of the most significant issues at this time, with regard to all levels of education.

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Cognitive psychology theories and history comprehension in learning disabled students

The educational field provides access to a variety of learning theories, many of them offshoots or modifications of previously popular stratagems of learning styles. Numerous studies have been conducted to verify, justify or analyze these theories and their potential usage in the U.S.

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Peer perception of students with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms

The development of special education in many ways has been relatively moderate since the beginning of legal reforms that attempted to provide equal and adequate education for those with diagnosable learning disabilities.

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Dia de los Muertos as community and family ritual practice

What began has an Aztec festival has since been fused with Catholicism in the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos. Like many other syncretic religious rituals, Dia de los Muertos combines elements of disparate traditions and is also celebrated differently in different parts of Mexico.

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