However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." ... This genre of literature has become known as magic realism, a movement characterized by the dreamlike and fantastic elements, which are mixed into fiction. There are many reasons why the "Boom" literature occurred when it did. ... Most importantly, with the emergence of the "Boom" writers of the 60s to the early 80s, three common conflicts developed in Latin American literature: good vs. evil, nature vs. urban progress, and civilization vs. barbarism. ... One of the common confli...

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Like Howells, Sui Sin Far demands in fiction a truthful depiction of Americans; her rewriting, however, represents an adaptation of mainstream realism because it focuses on Americans who had, before she wrote, little voice in American literature. ... Drawing from elements of realism and sentimental romance, Sui Sin Far uses short stories, articles, and essays to pioneer the act of self-representation for a people who existed in late nineteenth-century mainstream American's imagination and literature as uncivilized, heathen foreigners. In her short stories, articles, and autobiographical ...

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Asian Indian Assimilation in the United States America is referred to in many countries as the "Land of Opportunity". This is land is also often called the "Melting Pot of the World". It is believed that people from all over the world come to the United States and lose their cultural identity and "...

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Against this challenge, one of the elements gaining in importance in fostering countries' competitiveness is education. ... While all of these factors are likely to be important for competitiveness and growth, they are not mutually exclusive-two or more of them can be significant at the same time, and in fact that is what has been shown in the economic literature. ... Although the economic literature has focused mainly on public institutions, private institutions are also an important element of the process of creating wealth. ...

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ABSTRACT The duties and status quo of managers and supervisors* in the U.S. have altered dramatically since the founding of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the establishment of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA). While the LMRA explicitly states that supervisors are excluded fro...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to Europ...

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Table of Contents Abstract .2 Acknowledgements 3 Table of Contents .4 Statement of Purpose 5 Introduction ..6 Review of Literature ."7-27 Methodology 28 Analysis and Findings ..29-32 Conclusion 33-35 References .36-40 Statement of Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS among Black South Africans and African Amer...

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction The year 2000 computer issue is defined by Zetlin (1998) as "the result of a universal programming standard that records dates as six digits rather than eight, using only two digits for the year. Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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Chapter 2 - Literature Review Brand Loyalty "The term "marketing" usually conjures images of consumer packaged goods and advertising campaigns " (Olivia, 2007) but in reality this is only a very small part of marketing. ...

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