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Narrative analysis and institutional bias in healthcare decision-making

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Michael McKinney's theory of custodial leadership and public service

Michael McKinney examines the nature of leadership. He also explores what constitutes a leader, and provides two historical examples of leaders.

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The DREAM Act: purposes, provisions, and policy implications

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Civil disobedience and democracy: King versus Van Dusen

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Baxandall's thesis on social context in fifteenth century Italian painting

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Baxandall's theory of Renaissance painting and social context

In his work, Painting & Experience In 15th Century Italy, the art critic Michael Baxandall attempted not simply to discuss the art of this particular period in Italian history, but to relate it this period's art to the social context that spawned the greatness and the significance of what we now…

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Subjectivity and bias in performance review processes

The first problem with performance reviews as a process is that they are inherently subjective.

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Angela Davis's analysis of blues feminism in Rainey, Smith, and Holiday

Davis, Angela. Y. Blues, Legacy and Black Feminism. New York: Random House, 1999. Angela Y. Davis was one of the founding mothers of the radical Black feminist and civil rights movement. Her participation in these movements was not simply vocal and intellectual, but profoundly political, as well.

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