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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• Grade Level: Graduate

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 ...

• Word Count: 1790
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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...

• Word Count: 1430
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• Grade Level: Graduate

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...

• Word Count: 2009
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• Grade Level: Graduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2115
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• Has Bibliography
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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...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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). ...

• Word Count: 2421
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• Has Bibliography
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Herodotus wrote the Histories so "...that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvelous deeds- some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians-may not be without glory" (¶ 1.1). ... The similarities between his work and the previously dominant medium for understanding the past can be assured through linguistic features, such as the use of rhetorical questions, quasi-Homeric discourse, similarities in phraseology [aklea vs. klea andron (¶1.1) or the use of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential sto...

• Word Count: 2143
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• Grade Level: Graduate

In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

• Word Count: 2312
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• Grade Level: Graduate

.'6 It seems then, that democracy, in its official, parliamentary form, faced a colossus of constitutional opposition, perhaps originating from the fact that the authors of the Meiji Constitution had laid down the foundations of a modern state which 'was inevitably absolutist, counter-revolutionary, and imperialistic'.7 This was not, however, where the political shortcomings of the Diet ended. ...

• Word Count: 2458
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• Grade Level: Graduate