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  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Got it only in dutch Drab hill Ergens ver, maar toch heel erg dicht door gebruik te maken van de de zogenaamde �empathy box’. Een toestel waarmee je je gevoelens met andere gebruikers kunt delen, om je zo niet alleen te voelen. Maar ook om een duidelijk verschil tussen �man and machiene’ te onderscheiden. De robots werden na de jaren zo gesofisticeerd dat zelfs geen onderscheid meer kon maken. Maar ze konden nog steeds geen

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Victor
  • American Way of Torture

    American Way of Torture

    President George Bush disagrees. “This government does not torture people,” he insisted , after reports emerged that in 2005, the U.S. Justice Department had secretly endorsed such painful interrogation techniques. Claiming that highly trained individuals from the CIA conducted the interrogation of terrorism suspects in keeping with U.S. and international law, Bush offered that it was all done for the sake of protecting the American people. It is time for those same American people to

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Performance Reviews and Reasons They Fail

    Performance Reviews and Reasons They Fail

    Performance Reviews and Reasons They Fail Performance reviews are usually approached with a lot of anxiety by both managers and employees. Managers tend to put off preparing for performance reviews because they can be an emotional issue. They also tend to rush through them to get them over with. This isn’t fair to employees, and is also bad for morale even if the overall performance is rated positively or above average. A quick, sloppy

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Effects on American Politics from the Election of 1912

    The Effects on American Politics from the Election of 1912

    The Effects on American Politics From the Election of 1912 During the Progressive Era, Americans faced the challenge of choosing between four strong candidates of the election of 1912. Each candidate held concrete platforms that would have different effects on progressivism. Americans could chose the conservative presidential incumbent William Howard Taft(R), the New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson (D), the long-time fighter for social reform-Eugene V. Debs (S), or the former president Theodore Roosevelt of the

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: David
  • Ww2 and American Involvement

    Ww2 and American Involvement

    In this essay I intend to show that it was inevitable that the United States would move from a status of isolationism and neutrality to supporting the Allies and defending democracy, also declaring war on Japan and in the end finishing the war in Europe for the struggling allies. By 1941 The Axis powers, this included Germany and Italy had taken all of Western Europe. Their control had reached as far west as the bay

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mikki
  • African American Women in Hollywood

    African American Women in Hollywood

    African American Women in Early Film In early film many African American actresses portrayed roles as mammies, slaves, seductresses, and maids. These roles suppressed them not allowing them to show their true talents. Although they had to take on these degrading roles, they still performed with dignity, elegance, grace and style. They paved the way for many actresses to follow both blacks and whites. These women showed the film industry that they were more

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Anna
  • Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities

    Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities

    David Sedaris writes about his experience taking guitar lessons in “Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities” after his father decided that he and his younger sisters should start a family music group. However, Sedaris has no desire to learn how to play guitar. His desire lies within singing jingles in the voice of Billie Holiday. Sedaris’ desire to sing in the voice of Billie Holiday is probably closely related to his sexual orientation, being gay, and his

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Yan
  • Dreams

    Dreams

    A dream is often seen as an aspiration. One may dream of becoming a sportsman, a firefighter or even a business tycoon. There are no limits to the word Dream. Everyone holds the right to dream and is free to dream of anything. Some work hard to achieve their dreams while others continue to be in the wonderful dream of theirs. Like every other teenager, I had a dream; it was a dream much different

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • Title Ix - Single-Sex Education in American Public Schools

    Title Ix - Single-Sex Education in American Public Schools

    Title IX Single-sex education in American public schools has been essentially outlawed since the 1972 passage of Title IX, the federal statute that prohibits publicly funded single-sex education. At the time Title IX was passed, most "experts" thought that there were no educationally meaningful differences between the sexes, and therefore no justification for educating boys and girls in separate environments. Guess what. The experts were wrong. In the 29 years that have passed since Title

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Edward
  • Bamboozled and African Americans in Today’s Industry

    Bamboozled and African Americans in Today’s Industry

    The movie Bamboozled by Spike Lee is a very interesting movie which brings up a lot of different points. Although Bamboozled did not receive great reviews like some of Lee’s other movies, I think it brought up a lot of important questions regarding the media and the way film portrays African Americans on T.V. Lee’s movie brings to light the notion that to be black and on television you have to play a certain role

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: July
  • African American Leaders

    African American Leaders

    Ashley White General Writing Martha McCully 3/28/02 Jesse Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B DuBois are all African American leaders. All of these men were leaders in their own time and their own sense, living in different eras with different views, but they all shared common ground. All four were African Americans trying to overcome obstacles and become influential leaders in their society. Jesse Jackson was an African American civil rights activist

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity

    Page 1 Hispanic American Diversity Nicole D. Wilson August 6, 2007 ETH 125 (Martha Brooks) Page 2 “Hispanics in the United States share many of the traditional values claimed by most Americans.” (Garcia 2007) In the Untied States the three largest groups that are known as Hispanic Americans are: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans. Being able to be diverse in linguistic, political, social, economy, religion and family conventions is a key for most

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Anna
  • Julia Butterfly Hill American Heroin

    Julia Butterfly Hill American Heroin

    “Why should I care about some lady living in a tree?” Is the question that I asked myself before I read the book ‘The Legacy of Luna’. Like most people, I glanced at its contents ran my fingers through the pages and decided that it would not interest me. However it was not long before I changed my mind after reading about her magnificent inner strength and my doubts were soon disbanded for I began

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Steve
  • What Was an American?

    What Was an American?

    What Was an American? During the eighteenth century, thousands of Western Europeans fled their homes of England, Scotland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands to come to the newly discovered America. For most, it was a long, stressful journey that seemed to have no end. They arrived to a country experiencing colonization, growth, slavery, oppression, and hope. Some came for better economic aspirations, some came to escape the cruel living conditions of their previous homes, and

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Taliban Arrives Back in U.S.

    American Taliban Arrives Back in U.S.

    'American Taliban' Arrives Back in U.S. By LARRY MARGASAK .c The Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Jan. 23) - John Walker Walker, the young Muslim convert accused of joining al-Qaida soldiers in Afghanistan, returned to the United States Wednesday under FBI custody to face criminal charges that he conspired to kill fellow Americans. Walker flew back aboard a military cargo plane amid high secrecy and tight security, roughly two years after he left the United States

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Artur
  • Compare and Contrast American Liberalism and Marx’s Ideal of Communism

    Compare and Contrast American Liberalism and Marx’s Ideal of Communism

    American Liberalism and Marx's ideal of Communism are based on two very different but closely related ideologies. American Liberalism is based on the ideology of Classical Liberalism or Liberalism. Marx's ideal of Communism, on the other hand, is based on the Socialism ideology. Both of these ideologies came to because people didn't agree with the way thing were being run at that time. After studying them both closely, because of they way I have been

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Monika
  • Culture Aspects of Business Negotiation: American Culture Vs Japanese Culture

    Culture Aspects of Business Negotiation: American Culture Vs Japanese Culture

    Business Negotiation Japan VS United StatesIntroduction: Undertaking any business requires a number of skills. These would normally involve negotiation which is defined as a voluntary process by which the involved parties could reach an agreement on common business matters (Cellich and Jain 2004). One of the main purposes of such a process is to enhance the elements of the business at hand; to gain a better deal than simply accepting or rejecting what the other

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Colonial Latin American Slavery

    Colonial Latin American Slavery

    Spaniards brought Africans to the New World at the very beginning of the Spanish conquest. Spanish influence determined Africans' social aptitude, acculturated them, and manipulated their role to serve Spanish needs for production. Despite Spanish dominance, Africans were able to retain some resemblance of their own cultural distinction, and acted independently against Spanish interests. Africans roles evolved as the Spanish faced problems of satisfying high labor demands and maintaining control over a population much larger

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Americans, Oblivious to Their Surroundings

    Americans, Oblivious to Their Surroundings

    Americans, oblivious to their surroundings Technology has increased greatly in the United States over the past century. Just think about it; computers, televisions, trains, cars, planes, boats, microwaves, skyscrapers, and the list could go on forever. Along with the increase in technology, comes the increase of expectations. For example, education, I know for a fact that my next-door neighbor got into the University of Washington in the 1970’s with only a 1.7 accumulative grade point

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Andrew
  • What Makes Businesses Fail in the 21st Century

    What Makes Businesses Fail in the 21st Century

    What Makes Businesses Fail in the 21st Century Warren Parker Charleston Southern University Business 650 Dr. Breland Business Failures Given the tremendous amount of literature available, the availability of education/training, the technology sources, the research methods and modern management principles, why are there still so many failures of major businesses now at the start of the 21st century? When I read this question, it makes me think of small businesses in the major business category,

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • American Express

    American Express

    As one of the leading credit card companies in today’s economic world, American Express has rightfully earned its place as one of the greater companies of our time. By, looking at the bigger picture, American Express Small Business Services wanted to focus on tackling the challenge of finding a way to generate long-term growth. In light of the new developments they saw opportunity and deemed it necessary to create a long-term commitment to the community

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global

    Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global

    Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global 1. Describe Mattel’s global marketing strategy for Barbie and assess its success. Mattel pushed Barbie in to Global market by adapting fashion and culture trends to it product. Difficulties for Mattel to enter global market are culture, barriers and competitors. Mattel faced problem in the Middle East about religious and social grounds. Parents and religious leaders think Barbie is odd with their culture value and Arab girl’s reality is

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Artur
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    The American Association of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1881—125 years ago. Barton wasn’t a nurse but she helped wounded soldiers at the front. The more battle worsened, the more soldiers got wounded and it resulted in shortage of emergency and medical supplies which convinced Barton to think about an organization for emergency relief. Barton’s mission was to gather volunteers to help not only nationally but also disaster victims internationally. In

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Native American

    Native American

    People had already been living in the Americas for thousands of years before the Europeans “discovered” the Americas. When the Europeans invaded this land they brought with them diseases such as smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, plague, typhus, and influenza contagions that repeatedly spread through the Native American peoples, killing them in high numbers. At the time the United States was settled by Europeans, it was abundantly populated by dozens of separate nations with diverse civilizations

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Causes of the American Revolutionary War

    The Causes of the American Revolutionary War

    The Causes of the American Revolution War An island ruling a continent. A war that gave birth to a new and free country. King George's taxes, neglect of the original 13 colonies, and England's mercantilism policy played a major part in the fire and anger of the English colonists in America that lead to the American Revolution of 17 to 1783. King George III of Britain was a tyrant by the standards of James

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Edward