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Negative stereotyping and its impact on African Americans

Stereotyping of racial groups is common throughout the world. Positive stereotyping helps even the non-deserving members of the racial groups. Negative stereotyping has even a worse effect.

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Allen Ginsberg's poetry and American cultural dissent in the 1950s

As one of America's most controversial poets of the mid to late 20th century, Allen Ginsberg, best-known for his radical poem "Howl" and for his outspoken views on American society, politics and the Vietnam War, was a very influential figure in the so-called "counterculture" of the mid to late…

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The growth and foundations of Buddhism in the United States

Some of these began to think of themselves as Buddhist after a personal experience such as visiting Asia, reading in depth about the religion or talking with others who had experienced the religion firsthand.

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Black humor, irrationality, and immorality in Heller's Catch-22 and Something Happened

The novels "Catch-22" and "Something Happened" demonstrates the inevitable presence of black humor, irrationality and immorality that prevails in times of war or conflict in human society, as humans pursue power and superiority -- that is, survival (of the fittest).

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Formalist and functionalist approaches to understanding grammar

There are a plethora of theoretical and practical views about the meaning, function and understanding of grammar. .These views often conflict, while there are also numerous areas of intersection and comparison.

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Assessing decisions with Edward de Bono's six thinking hats technique

In the book Six Thinking Hats Edward de Bono describes the process of parallel thinking. This process means looking at problems from all angles at once. Edward de Bono uses the example of four people all looking at the same house. One person is looking at the front. Another is looking at the back.

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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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Dissociative identity disorder: causes, symptoms, and severity levels

Dissociation is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 1994 as qtd in Frey 1999).

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The decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World War II

During World War II, a mid-20th-century conflict that involved several nations, the United States military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Wikipedia, 2005).

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Effective hotel food and beverage cost control techniques

Effective cost control techniques are absolutely essential in today's hotel industry.

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