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    Liberal Feminism

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    Liberal feminist‚ in the criminology system‚ believe that women deserve equal treatment within the criminal justice system as well as in everyday life. These feminist focuses on gender discrimination throughout our society‚ as women we are discriminated against in the work place‚ as victims‚ and as criminals. I chose to look it liberal feminism because I don’t understand feminists. I am a woman and yeah I get that we’re not equal to men but what these feminists are asking is that we‚ as women‚ be

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    Video Use in Social Science Research and Program Evaluation Barbara Rosenstein Barbara Rosenstein‚ PhD.‚ Freelance Program Evaluator‚ Beer Sheva‚ Israel Abstract: In light of technological advances in producing‚ viewing and storing moving images‚ it is appropriate to survey the literature concerning the use of moving images in research over the past few decades. A review of the literature shows that the use of video technology for research falls into three areas: observation (including data collection

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    Introduction to Political Studies (POLS1007) Tutorial : 13:15 Mr. Hudson Dimpho Ramalose 717071 18 March 2013 THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIBERALISM TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY “A political arrangement that promotes the liberty of the individual citizen from arbitrary government” ‚ ( Gamble‚ n.d.) . This is a political ideology that seems to put great emphasis on the protection of the individual through key principles such as individualism‚ freedom and equality (Heywood‚ 2007). Principles that are

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    School of Administrative Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York University Fall 2013 Course Outline AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Section A and B Information Systems Audit Term: Fall 2013 COURSE: AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Sections A and B Information Systems Audit Schedule First day of class: Section A: Wednesday‚ September 11‚ 2013 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM‚ Location: HNE 030 Section B: Thursday‚ September 12‚ 2013 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM‚ Location: HNE 032 REQUIRED COURSE TEXT/READINGS:

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    Insight Into Liberal Arts Education in Business Schools: A Literature Review BUSI 610 December 17‚ 2011 Abstract This literature review directly addresses the growing debate as to the integration of liberal arts studies into a business degree program. This paper will look at the historical context that the debate has followed as well as outline major factors of the debate and how they relate to each other. Finally‚ based on these literary finding‚ suggestions will be made as to the

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    viewpoint that this essay expresses is that rather than using “university education” for “a means to an end” (172) with the “end” being a good job‚ students should instead focus on receiving a meaningful education that will help them define themselves and later allow them to receive a fulfilling job. Dr. Edmundson‚ the author of this piece‚ is currently employed by the University of Virginia as an English professor. Dr. Edmundson targets this essay towards incoming college freshman‚ hence the essay

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    Bois’ ideas of a liberal arts education because she believed that a liberal arts education was a tool for self-improvement and social change among the Black community. Cooper believed that when adults pursued a liberal arts education they had potential to undermine the oppressive white power structure in the Jim Crow South and it was possible that they would be able to rupture the dominant ideas and promote an alternative system of ideas and values. Cooper believed that a liberal

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    Introduction The stories I have read were extremely informative. I believe Fredrick Douglass‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ Susan Jacoby‚ and Clayborne Carson intended audience was people similar to them‚ yet wanted to inform everyone about how education is different between race‚ and even sex. Even though each writer’s audiences were different they all had something similar to teach in their readings‚ which was the right for equality. Although every writer was straightforward‚ I believe each one had a different

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    Having a liberal arts education is very beneficial to owning your own business. By having a Liberal Arts Education you learn many skills like the ability to think for yourself‚ also skills to communicate effectively‚ problem-solving and pattern intelligence skills. All these skills reflect on having your own business because you have to know what you are doing‚ knowing what people want‚ also know how to communicate with people and knowing how to manage your time efficiently. If you want to be an

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    Xxxxx xxxx FYS 30 November 2012 The Value of Liberal Arts Education The great physicist Albert Einstein once said‚ “The value of education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts‚ but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” Einstein further conveys that liberal studying helps develop critical thinking and analytical skills with a touch of creativity. Liberal arts education helps set a common base for worldly knowledge; it strengthens

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