Author(s)‚ title‚ date of reading: - Miller‚ Susan. “Native Historians Write Back: The Indigenous Paradigm of American Indian History.” 2009. 2. Main issue(s) raised in book/excerpt/article: - What’s the point of it? The “writing-back” is the counter from the Indigenous to the Euroamerican narratives and assumptions‚ where many American Indian intellectuals are opting out of in favor of a historical paradigm. It’s written in a form of sections to face topics such as traditional narratives‚ sovereignty
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A Call to Action: Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road When a cell phone goes off in a classroom or at a concert‚ we are irritated‚ but at least our lives are not endangered. When we are on the road‚ however‚ irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers‚ weaving between lanes‚ for example‚ or nearly running down pedestrians in crosswalks
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Marketing Paradigm for Electronic Commerce Donna L. Hoffman hoffman@colette.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu Thomas P. Novak novak@moe.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu February 19‚ 1996 Paper submitted for the Special Issue on Electronic Commerce for The Information Society. Keywords: computer-mediated environments‚ World Wide Web‚ marketing on the Internet‚ the marketing concept and corporate strategy A New Marketing Paradigm for Electronic Commerce Running Title: A New Marketing Paradigm for Electronic
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Affirmative Action is it still Valuable COM/220 June 4‚ 2013 Affirmative action‚ what is it? Affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women. (Affirmative action. (2013). In Merriam Webster. Retrieved from http://m-w.com) Affirmative action is very important in our modern society‚ Affirmative action is the most effective way of addressing discrimination against minorities and women. Affirmative
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A Better A Century Foundation Report Affirmative State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences Action: Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter A Century Foundation Report A Better Affirmative Action State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter The Century Foundation is a progressive nonpartisan think tank. Originally
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The three main paradigms in sociology are social conflict‚ Structural functionalism and Symbolic interactionism. These paradigms are known as a set of concepts and theories that guides our perspective on certain concepts in society. If a person applies the theory of social conflict then he/she thinks of the world as a hierarchy of inequalities .They usually sees life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources and power. If a person considers themselves as a functionalist then they
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26). Business leaders are expected to not only have personal ethics‚ but professional ethics as well. What is an employee to do when the two are not reciprocated? Within a business‚ the organizational values are typically integrated into the protocols. Codes of Conduct are created to ensure the understanding of what is expected of employees and what can be expected of the organization (Pace‚ 28). Misconduct is the deliberate act of unethical behavior. Regardless if this is on part of the company
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Structure-Conduct-Performance Definition: The Structure-Conduct-Performance (S-C-P) paradigm of strategy assumes market structure would determine firm conduct which would determine performance. Structure: The term structure in this model refers to industry structure‚ measured by such factors as the number of competitors in an industry‚ the heterogeneity of products‚ and the cost of entry and exit. Conduct: Conduct refers to specific firm actions in an industry‚ including price taking‚ product differentiation‚ tacit
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during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century‚ the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research‚ such as biophysics and quantum chemistry‚ and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms of other sciences‚ while opening new avenues of research in areas such as mathematics and philosophy. Physics also makes significant contributions
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Affirmative Action University of Phoenix Susan E. Ricard Since the beginning of affirmative action‚ there has been controversy about the program being an effective tool to eliminate discrimination in education and the workplace. Even though the numbers with affirmative action plans seemed to have improved the percentage of minorities in schools and workplaces‚ it does not work to mandate that people change. Once the mandates disappear the numbers begin to decrease. In its conception in
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