He had a great reputation as a speaker and thinker. ... "# The stranger described in Simmel's essay is one who is both attached and detached from the group structure in which he lives. ... Instead of considering a stranger as a wanderer who "comes today and goes tomorrow,"# he is one who does not literally move about quite so freely, but nevertheless "has not quite got over the freedom of coming and going." ... He is far from us insofar as these similarities extend beyond him and us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people (119)." ... His belief that men naive...

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Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... He published his second novel, A Fine Balance, in 1995. ... First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? ....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... He published his second novel, A Fine Balance, in 1995. ... First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? ....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. ... Through sublimation, Cisneros fulfills her desire to free herself from the limitations of traditional gender roles, which allows her to give a voice to all the women who cannot speak up for themselves. ... In the first vignette, "The House on Mango Street," Esperanza states, "throughout her childhood, she moved frequently from one Chicago barrio apartment to the next because the residence had become too small for her growing family of six or inadequate for living"...

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One is the case of the marriage of a couple who try to balance their responsibilities while the other demonstrates how lack of a sense of duty and complete ignorance can cause deterioration of marriage despite efforts put in by one the spouses. ... There is always the cases of infidelity, spousal abuse and substance abuse, and financial burdens that put great strain on marriages. ... In the article Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce published in the December of 2002 in Social Forces authors Atone, Kim, Rothert, Schoen and Standish studied the role of women's participa...

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In the 1960s a great amount of black students in selective colleges became a political issue Black college applicants scored below whites on all sort of tests. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was designed as a measure of receptive language and has replaced the original Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) published in 1959. ... The percentage of white children who know a PPVT word correlates 0.98 with the percentage of slightly older black children who know the same words as white children. ... The council studied the test scores of 57 urban districts in 35 state...

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They also assert that such education encourages students who are already having sex to do so more often or with more partners. ... In fact research has shown that programmes that include information about delaying intercourse and about contraception can delay the age of first intercourse, reduce the frequency of intercourse and decrease the number of sexual partners a teenager might have. ... There are no published studies in the professional literature indicating that abstinence-only initiative in California not only did not increase the number of young people who abstained, but, in one sc...

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At the time, I did not know who Konishiki was, yet Aya's reaction indicated to me that sumo wrestlers must really enjoy popularity in Japan (why, otherwise, would a 19-year old Japanese girl so readily recognize the obese man on the back of a CD?). ... For instance, a small book published by the Board of Tourist Industry of the Japanese Government Railways in 1940 as part of a series intended to familiarize foreigners with facets of Japanese culture claims that, Sumo, or Japanese wrestling, is an art of exercising the body and strength in a way peculiar to the Japanese race. ... To ...

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One of his earliest essays, Social Structure and Anomie (1938) was written and published during The Great Depression. ... The Great Depression era was a time Merton got a chance to realize the imbalance of power and means of achieving success. During the Great Depression, business was poor and many people were out of work. ... At the same time, many wealthy individuals were not affected by The Great Depression in any way. ... Coupled with the disaster of The Great Depression, the U.S. was also experiencing a huge incursion of immigrants. ...

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CHAPTER ONE A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. ... By the second weekend, Dream had received a great deal of word-of-mouth publicity among members of my age cohort for being completely different from the stale, boring, and irrelevant stereotype most of them held about Shakespeare. ... There was no set, in the traditional sense, except for Titania's bower, which was designed by the actress who portrayed her. ... Essentially, the nightclub itself stood in for the set, which was a choice I made at the ...

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Western interest in The Orient as an exotic land began with the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria beginning in 1798 supposedly to protect French trade interests, undermine Great Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. ... While this has been exemplified repeatedly throughout history, the argument was perfectly epitomized when Prime Minister Arthur Balfour gave a speech in defense of Great Britain's occupation of Egypt in 1910 saying that, ˜We know Egypt better than we know any other country'. ... However, due to the difference in ...

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The connection between the attitudes and behaviours of employees and the connection to the organisations bottom line was first successfully displayed 19 years ago by US retail company Sears. ... According to Sirota, Mischkind & Meltzer (2005), from the analysis of their research on employee attitudes, which was based on never before-published case studies and data from 920,000 employees from 28 multinational companies over four years, resulted in the generation of hard data to prove that the share price of organisations with highly engaged employees increased on average by 16% in 2004 in comp...

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While the first wave of these programs were primarily to support women with children, today's work/life programs are less gender-specific and recognize other commitments as well as those of the family (HR Practices). ... As a result, the U.S. management philosophy that expects employees to put work first, ahead of personal lives and family commitments, is becoming less accepted (Alternative). ... Typically, studies have focused on employed men and women who are married or living with a partner of those with children. ... For example, do the work/life programs serve all employees...

• Word Count: 4439
• Approx Pages: 18
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate