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Paul Lawrence Dunbar's rise as an African-American literary voice

Paul Lawrence Dunbar is acknowledged for being one of the first significant African-American writers in the American Literature canon. His poetry, essays, and novels, published in the early twentieth century, gained attention worldwide because of their powerful message.

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Persuasion techniques the Ku Klux Klan uses to recruit members

The Ku Klux Clan is a far right extremist group that often has employed violent tactics and methods to achieve their ends and to propagate their ideology.

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Bridging departmental conflict between sales and marketing at Widgets, Inc.

It has been observed that an unfortunate tension exists between the sales and marketing teams of our organization. On the surface, this seems difficult to understand. After all, theoretically, members of these teams should be the 'best' at communicating, of all of the organization's employees.

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White papers in government policy and business applications

The paper represented official government opinion and proposed policy initiatives usually related to international conflicts and other global conundrums. Therefore, most government policy reports are white papers, and most government-issued white papers are policy papers.

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The psychological impact of the Vietnam War on American soldiers

Vietnam War. I would begin my research on this topic with a trip to the library. I would look at books that were about the war itself and well as history books that might offer up interesting information. I would then go to reputable websites that might have any information about the war.

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Fox News bias and media manipulation in "Outfoxed"

Before watching the documentary about Fox News entitled "Outfoxed," I considered myself immune to the effects of the Fox network. I assumed that if I did not watch Fox News and did not rely upon it as a source of information, then I was not subject to its biases.

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Booker T. Washington's arguments for education and self-improvement

Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington and "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois in the book "Three Negro Classics." Specifically it will analyze the readings and explain the author's main arguments.

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Motivations for joining the Nazi Stormtroopers in Hitler's Germany

Despite what many people think of Adolf Hitler and the problems that he caused for so many people throughout Germany and the world, he was also one of the greatest movers and shakers of the twentieth century.

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Presidential persuasion and the evolution of executive power in America

Neustadt see presidential "power" largely within the context of Dahl's "ability to persuade" argument.

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Michael Harner's theory of Aztec sacrifice and cannibalism as protein acquisition

In a contrary ethnographic paper, published in 1975, Michael Harner demonstrates that the development of wide scale human sacrifice, as compared to other Mesoamerican cultures, i.e.

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