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Cross-campus partnerships between teaching faculty and student development

This work has the objective of exploring how cross-campus coalitions and partnerships have been achieved between teaching faculty and student development and specifically as stated in the work of Blimling and Whitt (1999) and in the areas of: (1) the creation of campus wide coalitions, (2) the…

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Peasant activism and Indian autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico

Mattiace, Shannan L. (2003). To see with two eyes: Peasant activism and Indian autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

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Racial, gender, and sexual biases in the U.S. military

Challenges Present in Overcoming Biases in the United States Military: Past, Present, and Future "The few.

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Preventing vancomycin-resistant enterococcus transmission in healthcare settings

VRE is a "superbug," a bacterial strain that resists the action of antibiotics. For its versatility, VRE is difficult to treat or is even life-threatening. Prevention is also much more inexpensive and less draining of resources.

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Australian counterterrorism policy after the Bali bombings

The threat of terrorism to national security is as high as it has ever been. The scale and sophistication of the attacks which extremist militant groups have levied against their enemies in the West indicates that no nation which aligns itself with the goals of western democracy and capitalism is…

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Porter's Five Forces analysis of Brookdale Senior Living

Brookdale Senior Living competes in the Assisted Living industry. Brookdale's operations are national in scope in the United States, and they operate 548 senior living and retirement communities (BrookdaleLiving.com, 2009).

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Defining abnormality in contemporary psychology

What is abnormal psychology? The concept of abnormal psychology implies a controversial question: what is normalcy?

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Immigrant identity and assimilation in Divakaruni and Liu

Chitra Bajerjee Divakaruni and Eric Liu are two successful Americans who have mainly three things in common that come to mind at a first glance at their biographies: their nationality (they are both American), their foreign roots (the former was born in India, the other in China) and their love of…

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Guns N' Roses: three decades of rock leadership and musical evolution

Guns N' Roses: Three Decades, Three Eras, and the Rock Goes on? Though many -- perhaps even most -- bands eventually crumble form the accusations and in-fighting, problems with managers and disillusion with the lifestyle that almost invariably arises, Guns N' Roses still rocks on.

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Religion and politics intersection in modern secular society

The average day of most individuals is that of waking up early, rushing to work to give 110% of themselves and their efforts and then rushing back home to give another 100% to the family chores. In this dynamic and stressful environment, a question is being posed relative to the role of religion.

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