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Social Networking and the Learning Organization

there are at least six characteristics common to all organizations that others can label as being attuned to learning from events ...

Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" - Class And Masculinity

of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...

Universal Design

(ADA, 2008). Balancing the legal mandate for accessibility while at the same time remaining within an already straining budget is...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Border Control and Immigration Policy

fence, but rather that remedies should address both social concerns and the realities of this social, economic and political probl...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

Children's Costumes: Ancient Egypt And Rome

of childrens costumes in ancient Egypt and Rome. VI. Conclusion a. Culture is the great equalizer when it comes to establishing th...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Robert W. Howard's "The Shrinking Of Social Studies" - Reaction

learning through more evenhanded methods. Howard (2003) duly points out how standardization benefits no one but the bureaucrats w...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...

Female Gangs; Social and Historical CausesGirl Gangs, Historical and Social Causes

This paper examines the reality of female gangs. The author addresses social and historical reasons for their inception, as well ...

Social, Language, and Cognitive Developmental Factors Influencing Cognitive development, Language development, and Social development: Observations from the Classroom and the Literature

In eight pages the latest research literature and classroom observations pertaining to the factors that influence social, language...

Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Social Development in India

are differences between social structures in the north and the south, especially in the realm of kinship systems. Throughout the c...

Social theory and Mass Media

media was in response to meeting the needs of the individual, creating a mode by which information could be conveyed to address pe...

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN ANALYSIS

Nigerian, with close to two-thirds of the employees coming from the Niger Delta region. Nigeria, however, is anything but...

Appalachia: Culture and Social Problems

The mountain peoples who populate the mountainous regions of the southern Apalachias are, by majority, the descendants of English ...

Social Justice, Wealth Inequality/A Catholic Perspective

a telling story related by economist Hannah Arendt that concisely conveys the basic philosophy of the Catholic Church in regards t...

The Social Construction of Gender Roles

in their lives or there is something wrong with them. Society also dictates the kinds of jobs that women can hold, if they have ...

The Role of the Social Worker

may treat addicts and want them to achieve sobriety, but a harm reduction approach may be much easier to achieve and actually acco...

LEGITIMACY THEORY AND SOCIAL CONTRACTS: AN ANALYSIS

section, well discuss ExxonMobil and how it behaved when its tanker Valdez ran aground on Prince Island Sound in Alaska. The compa...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Social Reform Legislation Since WWII

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...

The Gospel of Luke: Social Justice

refused and reminded the rich man that he had received many good things during his lifetime while Lazarus received many evil thing...

The Interpretation of Corporate Social Responsibility in the UK Retail Industry

This 8 page paper looks at the way CSR has been interpreted by the retail industry in the UK. The paper defines what it meant by C...

Canada, Social Class, and Inequality

the haves wielding the greatest power (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). First, there is the predominantly Anglo upper class, in which mo...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy Management

This 14 page paper is written in two parts. The first part examines the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), defining...