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Career development at TIAA-CREF: fifteen years as customer service specialist

Concrete Experience. In 1991, I accepted a position as a customer service specialist with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associated, College Retirement Equity Funds (TIAA-CREF) in New York, New York which I still maintain today.

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Escapism and family dysfunction in The Glass Menagerie and The Sound and the Fury

The writer explores the primary texts, and secondary sources to develop a critical analysis of the characters and their dysfunction and how escapism is used in both situations.

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The abortion debate in American democracy and compromise

Not many people disagree when a law is passed that is objective and does not impact religious beliefs and value systems. For example, some individuals protested the speed limit of 55 mph on many federal highways.

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Writing across the curriculum as a learning and skill development tool

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs became popular during the mid-1970s in response to a perceived deficiency in students' writing and thinking abilities.

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Oligarchical power and critiques of the Romantic novel

The Romantic period and the attendant rise of the novel in England as the preeminent literary form saw the emergence of the first truly popular literature, and with it denunciations of the degradation of culture at the hands of frivolous entertainments and occupations.

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Jonathan Swift's use of satire in Gulliver's travels and A modest proposal

Jonathan Swift was born in the year 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, the only son and the second child of his parents Jonathan Swift and Abigail Erick Swift.

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Herman Melville's Billy Budd: impressment and military ethics in context

Billy Budd -- a tale of the sea or an allegory of fate? Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd seems to function in many ways like an allegorical novel about a classic moral tragedy, but such a reading does not place the novel in sufficient historical or political context to fully explain the…

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John Bright's treatment of biblical narratives in A History of Israel

Author John Bright puts out a seemingly thorough editorial effort in covering events in history leading up to the time when Israel (Palestine) became a land inhabited by Jews.

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Television's influence on presidential election coverage and voter decision-making

The availability of televisions in the late 1940's led to the belief that a new period was arising in public communication. Columbia Broadcasting System President Frank Stanton said,

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Canadian nationalism and environmentalism in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

For Americans or Europeans who are oblivious to the justifiably pessimistic feelings many Canadians have toward the U.S. In particular and Western attitudes in general, reading Margaret Atwood's book Surfacing should serve as enlightenment.

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