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Comparing immigrant experiences in Bodnar, Handlin, and Jacobson

Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People" by Oscar Handlin, "The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America" by John Bodnar, and "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917" by Matthew Frye…

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Contemporary abstract artists compared with Kandinsky's spiritual foundations

Abstract art is commonly defined as, "... art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. (NationMaster Encyclopedia: Abstract art).

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Phoenix Program lessons and Iraq War counterinsurgency strategy

It is not at all unusual to hear popular comparisons made between the Vietnam War and the current war in Iraq and though most experts see only a casual relationship still others see a comparison that is not only valid but is applicable to the utilization of historical Vietnam tactics and lessons…

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Integrating alternative and conventional medicine in holistic health care

Gig Harbor, WA: Harbor Press.

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Affirmative action as reverse discrimination: examining policy trade-offs

American society has been profoundly affected by affirmative action policies. Developed as an attempt to address racial imbalances in education, the workplace, and the military, affirmative action has long been a contentious issue.

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Consequentialist ethics and academic honor code enforcement

Consequentialist ethics views ethical decisions in terms of their consequences, not in terms of an abstract moral system that is universally applied to all circumstances.

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Max Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

Maximilian Weber was one of the most influential German political economists and sociologists. He began his career at the University of Berlin and later worked at other universities throughout Germany.

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Rethinking power and freedom in Nikolas Rose's advanced liberalism

The modern world is constantly changing, and so are the theoretical assumptions we use to understand it. As modernity continues to increase in its complexity, the traditional theoretical models for understanding power and implementations of social movements simply are not working.

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Gender and power in colonial America and the early United States

Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers. New York: First Vintage, 1996. 512 pp., bibliography, index. Mary Beth Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University.

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Dehumanization and oppression in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The process of dehumanization is one that is repeated quite often in literature. Unfortunately, if we look at the history of mankind, we find that it is part of human behavior that regularly appears -- typically as some type of process in which one group asserts their superiority, whether moral,…

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