The author begins with a bulleted, four-point introduction to set up the body of the article. ... Herein lies the author's great sense of confidence in the future of this research. ... For that reason, I thoroughly enjoyed the article, and it left me with a refreshing sense of hope for great progress in the years to come. ... As such, he carries a great deal of subject-specific credibility. ... Regarding credibility, the author left no window of criticism available to this reader. ...

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In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity to which that community is able to create a new civil religion around. ... Stating this, the author shows us that while American religion creates groups within itself, Japanese religion is universal. ... In the article, Jane Naomi Iwamura goes into great detail about the struggle of Japanese Americans and the emergence of a new Japanese American civil religion, but in the middle of the article she goes into great detail about the Japanese Americ...

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The author's sensitivity about the definition of terms regarding transgenders entails her meaning precision and phraseological consistency. ... As a qualitative researcher, the author is cognizant of the lack of racial diversity in her study, as this would rather depict a more contrasting outcome about transgender experiences. ... The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was also mindful of setting boundaries in determi...

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In Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor's essay titled "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism's" the authors aim to identify what the new institutionalism is and how we can identify it. The author's start off by describing how there are three key different approaches to how we can begin to understand what the new institutionalism is and that we can only understand it through the context of three separate elements. ... Retrospectively, each school of thought has remained separate from the other, and the authors argue that it is high time we integrate the three ...

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The service end of business includes book reviews, book recommendations, one-click purchasing, a smooth purchasing interface, great selection, etc. while the product end of the business is purely the pricing of the product since books are commodity with no product differentiation. ... Due to the information-rich nature of books, the information provided about these products has a great value to the majority of customers. The current ability of online booksellers to provide published reviews, reviews of fellow readers, bestseller lists, author recommendations, customized recommendation, etc. ma...

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In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. ... In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... On the one hand, some democrats such as the French philosopher and author Jean Jacques Rousseau were not liberals. ...

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Summary of Evidence Since the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949, the country struggled with a basic problem that it couldn't remedy throughout its whole existence: a great labour deficit. ... This is supported by the biography of both authors: the first author, Eva-Maria Elsner, was an university lecturer for political economics at Rostock and lived in the former GDR, so she has an intimate knowledge of political events of the time. ... The author of this report is a scientific assistant at the university Duisburg and therefore has access to lots of source mater...

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Gloria Anzaldua, author of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue,"" would argue that imposing mandatory requirements to learn this new way of thinking called "academic discourse- are both oppressive and objectionable. ... Richard Rodriguez, author of "Aria,"" however would argue that the requirement to learn "academic discourse- is valuable and empowering. ... The two authors, Anzaldua and Rodriguez, would have profoundly differing feelings on the subject of academic discourse, because of their very different feelings concerning assimilation. ... He realizes that although he is giving up his more in...

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Nabokov uses a great deal of irony to make the reader aware of the lacking self-reflection of the main characters, and because of the lack of authentic historical references (besides the allusion to Greek mythology) this novel this is more fiction that factual. Consequently, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire shows how an author can use new techniques and approaches to create a literary masterpiece, without a specific audience in mind. ...

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During the classical era, the Romans had placed great emphasis on the values of wisdom and virtue, a concept which they referred to as humanitas. ... Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in writing verse and prose. ... In the view of the author of this letter, studying literature is appropriate for only a small percentage of men because farmers, soldiers, merchants, and laborers have no need to learn th...

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Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle one another indefinitely without any great catastrophe to mankind. The great geographical discoveries of the s...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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On the other hand, The "Armstrong" phenomenon that we are going to be analyzing step by step, made ​​a huge repercussion for several reasons: not only was known as ''Ambassador Satch'', a cultural ambassador, under the sponsorship of the United States that captivated colossal audiences around the world, but also, the innovative improvisations that he did and the way his compositions were transmitted to others through his acting technique, produced a reputation for serving as a model for artists such as Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and even, harmonically, L...

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We discover our world through our senses, however when authors and poets are distinctively visual in their writing, we gain access to their own sensory and personal experiences. ... Instead, Henley accepts the inevitability of death, made obvious by his current ordeal, and invites the 'great seeker' to "find, and shall find" Henley "unafraid" - once again a testament to his conviction, that which trumps the metaphysical and even Death. ...

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The first of these terms, "active euthanasia,"" refers to any action that directly contributes to the death of someone who is terminally ill or in great pain. "Passive euthanasia,"" on the other hand, refers to a decision not to treat a life threatening condition on the grounds that no extraordinary measures should be taken to save the life of someone who is either terminally ill or in great pain. ... The authors of these two articles disagree sharply about both the moral acceptability and the desirable legal status of active euthanasia. ...

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Some authors refer to the presence of personality disorders and behavioural abnormalities, but are no more specific. ... Many authors have commented at length on the severity of LGS and it remains, today, the most `resistant to treatment' of all the syndromes associated with `slow spike-wave' epilepsies. ... The literature discusses the morbidity of LGS at length, but no mention was found by this author about the causes or rates of mortality. ...

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Abstract The resulting essay answers the following question, 'In what ways does narrative perspective reveal author's message in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind?' ... I have realized that the perspective on narration causes a certain reaction to the psychopath or protagonist as created by the author them self. ... Introduction The stated question of 'In what ways does narrative perspective reveal author's message in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind?' ... Through this technique of narrative perspective the author guides the ...

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This recommends that discrimination on the basis of age, race, gender, and other issues continues a great workplace problem regardless of the civil rights and related social associations of the past years. ... Many authors have stated that there is still so much to learn about diversity training, even with the number of studies in organizational and educational settings. ...

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In this way poststructuralist literary theories have great potential for making learners critical readers and creative explorers which is the fundamental aim of 21st century pedagogies such as critical pedagogy, cognitive learning, social cognitive learning etc. ... Methodology of these models and approaches serve to develop aesthetic and linguistic understanding of students and help them read history as discussed by the author and poets. ... A Marxist interpretation of the text takes the reader beyond the facade of neutrality and draws their attention to class affiliation and ideology of the...

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Graham Greene, the author of the novel 'Brighton Rock' uses a variety of methods to create narrative interest in what can be described as 'bleak', 'depressing' or 'hopeless' material. ... In addition Greene makes a clear contrast at the very start of the novel, using Hale as an example to show the very dark, hopeless and unknown side of Brighton shown in the quote ''Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him'' this quote shows the dark side of Brighton as it shows Hale only being in Bright...

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The authors note that the current study is limited by the LEMAS data collected in that it does not categorize the types of oversight committee models and their respective authorities (Wilson & Buckler, 2010). ... Wilson and Buckler lend creditability to the media for the over-exposure of police misconduct and suggest that the negative attention sparks the great demand for oversight (Wilson & Buckler, 2010). ...

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The author thus used rhetorical appeals mostly pertaining to logic and emotion: logos and pathos. ... The experiment showed great results that aided in a better understanding of how product placement is effective in games and seemed to have accurately measured its feasibility as a new channel of advertising. ...

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Anthropological knowledge is regarded as being interpretive, hermeneutic and relative to specific time, place and author as opposed to being conclusive and universal as is the case for scientific knowledge. ... In conclusion, a great deal of controversy exists in determining the nature of anthropology as a discipline. ...

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After the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 came the "launch of a grand revolutionary experiment in popular democracy" (Miroff, Seidelman & Swanstrom 1998, 17) and with it the birth of Republicanism. ... Its authors had vivid memories of unchecked Executive power exercised from London and experience of the vacuum of Executive power under the Articles of the Confederation. ...

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In fact, whereas old-fashioned technology industries with labour intensity considered as "hangovers " from the past, great achievements are being harvested by a large number of such kind of businesses regarding the number of job created and earning capacity in the context of today's globalising world (Scott, 2006). ... Particularly in Japan, old hand-loom production acquires the invention of more powerful looms and turns itself into small-sized industry and still contribute a great deal to Japan's economy today (Sugihara, 2007). ...

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