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U.S. income inequality and the decline of the middle class

Census Bureau chart substantiates the claim that "the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer." Changes in real family income reflect this disturbing trend. The bottom 20% of Americans earn less than $25, 616 per year and between 1979 and 2005 their income actually dropped by about one percent.

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Religion and politics in post-9/11 America

Religion and politics have long been intersecting factions. In fact, America's founders were so concerned about the complication that come form the intersection of these two factions that they established a separation between church and state.

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Understanding time value of money through hourly earnings

A lot of people today think more about "stuff" than how much money it takes to buy that "stuff." Like a burger. It may be only a buck, but it takes someone working for $10 an hour ten minutes to make that much money, more if you factor in income and other taxes you pay.

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Emotional branding in Super Bowl 2010 Anheuser-Busch and Google commercials

The two best SuperBowl 2010 commercials were the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale Friend and the Google Parisian Love as they both showed how powerful emotions can be quickly and very clearly associated with brands.

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Long-run effects of restrictive immigration policy on aggregate supply and demand

A 'closed door' immigration policy will result in fewer individuals competing for jobs and thus drive up the price of labor. It will also likely limit the number of lower-wage workers in America as a whole.

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Impact of gender, age, and religious affiliation on democratic voting behavior

The objective of this work in writing is to examine the impact that characteristics such as gender, age, sexual orientation and geographical differences have on individual democratic behavior. Toward this end this work will conducted a thorough review of available literature in this area of study.

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FedEx's $891 million Kinko's goodwill impairment in 2009

FedEx 2009 Annual Report, the Management Discussion and Analysis discusses the impairment of the Kinko's trade name and the financial repercussions thereof. Recall that with significant fanfare FedEx announced in late 2003 that it was buying Kinko's, the chain of office services stores.

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George Kateb's theory of democratic individuality and Emerson

Democratic Individuality? George Kateb, in "Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics," suggests that democratic individuality is rooted in the notion that when an individual's rights are deemed as scared and protected, that individual is then free to explore and fulfill his role as an…

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Henry Ford's Model T and the democratization of American automobile ownership

Prior to Henry Ford's introduction of the famous Model T. Ford, automobiles were regarded by most Americans as the latest annoying toy of the ultra-wealthy with which they annoyed the comparatively less privileged classes (Evans, 2004).

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Maryland dental hygienists' views of oral cancer prevention and early detection

Horowitz AM, Siriphant P, Canto MT, and Child WL. "Maryland dental hygienists' views of oral cancer prevention and early detection." Journal of Dental Hygiene (June 22, 2002).

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