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Healthcare assessment of the Garcia family: cultural and developmental considerations

The Garcia's are a Cuban American family who have been making regular visits for healthcare. The family of four presents with different persistent problems that require that they see a doctor frequently.

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Immigrant discrimination and Du Bois's theory of racial friction

DuBois, in his "The Conservation of the Races" described racial prejudice as "the friction between different groups of people." (Dubois, 12) If one accepts this definition, then the United States contains a great deal of racial prejudice, as this nation is filled with different groups of people who…

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Internalists and externalists in the historiography of science

In the historiography of science, the debate between intenalists and externalists has been one of the major fault lines over the past century.

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Growing up Hispanic: domestic life and childhood in Mary Ponce's Hoyt Street

The autobiographic work Hoyt Street by Mary Ponce describes in intimate detail what it was like growing up in a Hispanic family inside the United States of America.

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Media bias and voter perception in American political news coverage

From 1962 to his retirement in 1981, Walter Cronkite led America through such pivotal events as the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal as the anchor on the CBS Evening News.

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Political satire in The Boondocks and South Park compared

We are accustomed to thinking of cartoons -- whether illustrated or animated -- as being a form of children's entertainment.

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Lenore Skenazy's free-range parenting approach and American overprotection

Skenazy introduces to the reader a (supposedly) profound "new" way of raising children in the United States, which is the Free-Range way.

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William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania

The history of how America was founded all starts in the land of Pennsylvania, where famous events such as the creation of the Declaration of Independence was written, the creation and signing of the United States Constitution, and a host of famous people contributed to the beginnings of our great…

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Linguistic and social properties of nicknaming practices

A large range of the academic literature centering on the sociological as well as the cultural and linguistic properties of nicknaming can be found.

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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Symbolist poetry's modernist legacy

The late nineteenth century Symbolist movement in literature was first identified as the primary origin of twentieth century Modernism by Edmund Wilson, in his 1931 work Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930.

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