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an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...

well (Hutchings, 1996). Protective legislation is not usually a practical recourse because it is not usually enforced (Hutchings...

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

direct nation-wide vote for President (U.S. Electoral College). Instead, the result of the Presidential election is in reality th...

It is a beneficial article for it illustrates how Asimov was far more than an author, but rather a man with intelligent and very s...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

reflect upon. That is, at the time, there was a significant fear of communism. Many can look back to the Second World War when Hit...

but it still manages to use more than 90 percent of donated funds directly for the purposes for which they were donated (American ...

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

of cable channels over the years has allowed television viewers to choose channels more in keeping with their tastes. As a broadc...

In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

and lapse of time meant that Britain had trouble controlling the colonies; this is in part the "vagueness" of which Boorstin speak...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

2005). It is interesting to note that Benjamin Franklin often invented things that he felt were good for all people and thus sho...

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

on wooing only the most likely voters, and that group generally includes educated, white, fairly well off, middle aged people with...

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

fair trade. Fight for our manufacturers. Fight for our automakers. Fight for our American workers" and clearly envisions that he i...

back to the 1960s.2 Once upon a time, children were regarded as a deterrent to mothers entering the workplace, but a combination ...

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...