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Cultural diversity in American education: a case study interview

Cultural diversity is an underutilized resource in the classroom setting. The American school system was devised with the Caucasian population in mind. Minorities were not considered "educable" when the educational system first began in the United States.

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African-American cultural expression and the politics of oppression

Many cultural forms of expression have been utilized within the social science construct, to demonstrate ways in which such expressions reflect the culture as a whole, and in many cases the broader culture, or the one that is usually subjugating the first. Within W.E.B.

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own": war, feminism, and identity

"[a]s a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world" -Virginia Woolf

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Steven Holl's Kiasma museum and architectural phenomenology

Kiasma, the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, takes its name from the Finnish word for chiasma, which was the original title of architect Steven Holl's winning design.

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Rick Perry's execution of Kelsey Patterson through a Kantian ethics lens

The United States Supreme Court made a judgment in 1976 to allow the fifty states to reinstate capital punishment if they wish to. The state that has put the most convicted criminals to death is Texas.

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Self-assessment of leadership potential using multiple intelligence measures

I scored evenly on all of the types of intelligence measured by this self-assessment: logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and musical. This indicates that I am a well-rounded person with the ability to work in multiple environments on different tasks.

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Monsanto's political influence and lobbying strategies

Monsanto. The name alone makes millions cringe. How can a company named after a middle-aged homemaker become so controversial?

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Galileo's support for the Copernican hypothesis and his conflict with the Catholic Church

Galileo was certainly one of the most formative and important figures in the history of science -- among the inventions and contributions to science attributable to him are the refinement of lens-grinding and telescope making technologies as well as the creation of the scientific method in any real…

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Narration, setting, and moral psychology in Stevenson's Markheim

Markheim was written in 1885 and is widely recognized as one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most successful short stories. It was initially published in a Christmas-time annual and later appeared in Stevenson's the Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887).

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Causal factors and influences in personality development

Personality refers to the characteristic pattern or behavioral style of a person as manifested by his external and internal properties (IGNOU, 2012). These properties are distinct and unique to every person.

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