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No Child Left Behind's impact on teaching methods and student equity

The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes that teachers have made in order to adapt to the need to improve student test scores on standardized tests since the introduction of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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Applying Lewin's change management model to corporate social responsibility

Developing Corporate Social Responsibility through Managerial Strategy: An application of Change Management Corporate social responsibility (and the lack thereof -- whether merely perceived or an all-too-evident actuality) has been an increasingly prevalent and impassioned topic over the past…

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Achievement gap theory and affirmative action in MBA education

The impact of Affirmative Action on the Professional Success of African-American MBA Graduates Affirmative action as it stands in the professional and business sphere has generated a wide spectrum of controversy.

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Metonymic characterization in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit

Metonymy is a literary term that is used to describe a concept that is not called by its own name, but rather by something symbolically associated with it that has a deeper, metaphorical meaning.

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Outcomes and challenges for youth aging out of foster care

Annually, about 20,000 of 542,000 youths age out of foster care across the United States (Courtney, 2005). Except for incarcerated youth, foster youth are the only individuals who are involuntarily removed from their families through government intervention.

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Ideology and family dysfunction in Little Miss Sunshine

As scholar Timothy Corrigan suggests in his book a a Short Guide to Writing About Film, "[w]riting essays about films is, in short, one of the most sophisticated ways to respond to them" (iv).

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Female orgasmic dysfunction: definitions, prevalence, and counseling implications

Female orgasmic disorder (FOD) has been a controversial and often confusing issue in the annals of medicine and especially with regard to counseling treatment. Over the years the condition has been associated with a highly medicalized ideology and has also been discounted by some in its entirety.

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Effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs

The problem regarding how schools may best make their environments physically and emotionally safe leads to the question: Does a school-based program decrease victimization?

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Acculturation and cultural identity in immigrant communities

Acculturation and cultural identity are both valuable tools in our understanding of cultural differences, and are surrounded by a fair amount of discourse and political controversy.

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Normative social influence and conformity in group settings

According to Changingminds.org (2010), normative social influence often concerns the need to belong to and be accepted by a social group. Indeed, as human beings, this type of belonging is a fundamental need. This tendency is closely connected to an evolutionary drive for survival.

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