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Racial disparities in child abuse reporting and handling across America

This brief report focuses the social conflict perspective of sociology while focusing on the racial inequalities within the reporting and handling of child abuse cases, both with the children themselves as well as the parents that stand accused.

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Public opinion on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

In 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These are additional funding measures that were implemented to deal with the adverse effects of the Great Recession.

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Plato's critique of rhetoric in Phaedrus and Gorgias

Phaedrus provides a description of the speech that occurred between Socrates and Phaedrus. The conversation depicts Phaedrus as a mature individual with love for rhetoric and Lysias.

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Consumer behavior, social media, and brand identity construction on Facebook

The implications of social media including Facebook's effects on how brands are presented by actual vs. ideal selves is also included in this analysis (Hollenbeck, Kaikati, 2012).

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Agent-based systems and software requirement analysis in the SDLC

The reliance on agent-based technologies to streamline the development, fine-tuning and implementation of software is an area that is seeing significant gains using constraint-based modeling and heuristic programming (Kumar, Goyal, 2011) in addition to significant gains in Web Services technologies…

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Social media's role in redefining small business brand and customer relationships

Every business, from the largest enterprise to the smallest start-up, faces the continual challenge of staying in touch with their customers and continually earning their trust and business.

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Servant leadership theory and Robert Greenleaf's framework

There are several leadership theories that address this issue from different points-of-view. There are theories that refer to leadership skills as innate. In accordance with such theories, leaders are born, not made. These theories of leadership usually refer to the military activities.

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Hume's account of moral sentiments and sympathetic imagination

Morality to human sentiment is a unique kind of feeling. It comes about through a kind of perspective-taking that we encounter, via a practice of sympathetic imagination, sentiments belonging to individuals that have been affected by a given action or other evaluation objects.

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First-wave feminism and domestic labor in Susan Glaspell's Trifles

Susan Glaspell's 1916 play Trifles is an ideal case study in the emerging feminism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, because although the play is definitely feminist, it is feminist according to a distinctly "first wave" notion of the word.

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Economic globalization and the 2008 financial crisis in America

Has the 2008 financial meltdown in the U.S. And the ongoing economic crisis in Europe have practically ended the era of economic globalization?

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