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Writing styles of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Lessing

An author's writing style is like a voice or a fingerprint: unique to that individual and impossible to replicate.

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Progressive rock and punk: Origins and influence of two rock genres

Rock: A genre of rock music that is ambitious in the scope of its design and compisition. Progressive rock deploys an eclectic mix of styles such as classical, jazz, and rock melodies. Progressive rock albums often have the performative scope of operatic rather than song-enclusive works.

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Peter Steinfels on teaching ethics versus morality in universities

Peter Steinfels in his 2004 article asks whether or not universities should teach aim to teach morality. He explicates several perspectives from those involved in the academic field. On the one hand, there are those that feel it is not the place of the university to try to inculcate morality.

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Racial dynamics and organizational change in a small CPA firm

The organization for which I work is highly unusual. We are a small CPA firm staffed by eight Asian-American females, so although our staff is relatively homogenous, at the same time we represent a minority community in both gender and ethnicity.

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Race relations and friendship in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

White Teeth - Zadie Smith's broad comic vision of a tentative state of British racial harmony Despite the fact that the novel takes an occasionally dark tone in its depiction of race relations in modern Britain, Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth overall presents an optimistic vision of race relations…

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School nutrition programs and healthy cafeteria meal planning

Schools can prevent massacres along the lines of Columbine by teaching students how to be "more human." However, in order to teach how to be more human, teachers and educational professionals must keep up-to-date on the changing needs and desires of their students.

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Malcolm X's homemade education and path to empowerment

A school dropout, Malcolm X illustrates the dichotomy between a formal and what he calls a "homemade" education: "In the street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there -- I had commanded attention when I said something.

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Derek Walcott's "Ti-Jean and his Brothers" in Spanish translation

In America today, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner for literature Derek Walcott is perhaps best known for his poetry.

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Satire and polemic in Swift and King's protest rhetoric

However, both authors addressed conformists in their words. King addressed a group of well-meaning ministers who protested his actions in Birmingham as moving too fast, and as the work of an outside agitator who did not understand the Birmingham Black community.

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Shakespeare's use of Plutarch in Julius Caesar

It seems that William Shakespeare used the Thomas North translation of Plutarch's biography of Julius Caesar, entitled 'Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans,' as the source for the play 'Julius Caesar' (William pp).

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