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Motivating at-risk middle school students through culturally responsive instruction

Approximately 25% of students in the late 1980's were living at or below the nationally established poverty level. Children from these poor families were identified as having higher rates of needing special instruction vs. other same age students from more advantaged homes (Young & Melnick, 1996).

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Hiring and retention strategies in the hospitality industry

There are very few duties and responsibilities that a human relations manager is accountable for that are more critical to the success of his or her venue than selecting high quality people for employment. How to accomplish that delicate, pivotal task is the point of this research paper.

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Gender role socialization and cultural variation in adolescent identity formation

Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has somewhat evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Gender roles are complex and clearly vary by culture and time-period, and are often misunderstood based on individual societal bias.

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Colonialism in The Tempest and Season of Migration to the North

Both William Shakespeare's play The Tempest and Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North deal with the cultural tensions arising as a result of colonialism, albeit in different historical moments and from different sides of the colonizer-colonized relationship.

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Mollie Orshansky's poverty level definition and its modern limitations

Bell, Carolyn Shaw. (1995). What is Poverty? The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 54(2) 161-173.

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Management by objectives misalignment in IT services firm performance

The lack of congruity between the strategic plans and direction of the IT services firm on the one hand and the structure of its Management by Objectives (MBO) program on the other is causing a major disconnect in overall company performance.

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Foucault and Derrida in Beckett's The Unnamable

The narrator of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable exists in a liminal space, neither wholly real nor non-existent, and he represents the kind of unsubjectified consciousness that is the ideal citizen of Michel Foucault's theoretical panopticon.

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David Foster Wallace's exploration of social justice in Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest was released in 1996 it was greeted with great fanfare and critical acclaim. It confirmed what many literary critics and scholars had already suspected, that the book's young and precocious author was the preeminent writer of his generation.

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Goldman Sachs's BRIC strategy and emerging market investment approach

Goldman Sachs has come up with a new and an innovative strategy for the times to come. It has given birth to a new marketing strategy aimed at Bric. The principal economist in this company introduced this new strategy which was focused on a few countries that had quite a few similarities.

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Organic and mechanistic organizational structures using Porter's value chain

Explain the terms organic and mechanistic in relation to organisations. Organizations require both organic and mechanistic elements in their structures to survive by being able to successfully respond to threats and opportunities while stabilizing their core functions.

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