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    Provide a brief description of the individual. Ellen Foster is a ten-year-old‚ Caucasian‚ female who experiences a series of traumatic events during her childhood. These traumatic events include her witnessing domestic violence in the home‚ her mother’s suicide and subsequent physical‚ sexual and psychological abuse by her alcoholic father‚ her maternal grandmother and other relatives (aunts and cousins on the mother’s side). Ellen shuttled from home to home‚ staying for a short time at the home

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    Foster Care in the United States Sue King Liberty University Abstract The history of foster care in the United States started with orphan trains and the Children’s Aid Society founded by Charles Loring Brace. Recent research describes the child welfare system as an organization that provides service to helpless children in need. This paper will discuss foster care as it is relates to safety‚ permanency‚ and wellbeing of children in need The role of a foster parent and the process of loss

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    Comm 423 The Value of David Beckham Dik Yi Tse (230052113) Ryan Darmasubrata (230055322) The purpose of this paper is to evaluate one of the most phenomenal transfers in the football world. The transferred of David Beckham from Manchester United to Real Madrid has becoming the talk of not just football fans but the financial expert for the last 2 years. Unlike most transfers‚ the David Beckham transfer has revolutionized player transfer in the football world. It became the standing point

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    Nguyen Tran Env 411-001 The Deep “The blue planet” was captured By a British (David Attenborough) and presented in 2001. From this document‚ David will show viewers new species that they’ve never seen before. Especially from second episode‚ David specially dived into the Deep Ocean where he called the abyss. Furthermore‚ David also shows us how these species can survive in harsh environment which he called “monster”. In every deep ocean‚ the pressure is very high about 100 times atmosphere that

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    1. Introduction The main purpose of this report is to analyse David Jones’ business performance and to determine whether it is a worthwhile investment. Two main points will be closely examined: classification of non-recurring items and recurring items‚ and ratio analysis. First‚ clarifying the generation of income made by ordinary activities and extraordinary activities will enable us to estimate the firm’s real earning power. Second‚ analysing historical financial data‚ using ratios‚ will enable

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    The Future of Rhetoric in Our Digital Age In Advertising‚ Politics and Freedom of Speech Student Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University English 143 April 30‚ 2011 Abstract While rhetoric has not seemed to have changed much over the years since the days of Aristotle‚ the use of this ancient are form appears to be continually transformed as new technologies are discovered and used. The advertising media have discovered new ways to use several figures of rhetoric in their effort to persuade us in

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    Rhetoric of Blue Jeans

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    “Blue Jeans” by Fred Davis talks about denim jeans‚ their creation about 700 years ago‚ and how since then this item of apparel has served as a form of expression. Jeans were and still are made from sturdy indigo- dyed cotton cloth. Before the 60’s one did not see blue jeans on everyone‚ in the 30’s and 40’s painters and artist were the main consumers‚ and in the 50’s the denim trend spread to hoodlums and motorcyclist. Not until the 60’s did jeans become universally worn‚ crossing all genders‚ ages

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    Victoria Cantu Professor Moore English 1301-033 16 July 2012 Should Marijuana Be Legalized? In her essay “Here ’s why I ’m against legalizing marijuana‚” Loolwa Khazzoom addresses the debate about legalizing marijuana in the United States. Around 2003‚ Khazzoom visited Amsterdam‚ where marijuana was legal. In an attempt to avoid marijuana‚ she searched for an internet café free from smoke‚ and failed. She resorted to the downstairs area of a café where the designated smoking section was upstairs

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    Being a competent intercultural communicator is being able to utilize the six dialectic of intercultural communication during communication practices. Dialectic refers to a method of logic based on the principle of idea generating its opposite‚ leading to a reconciliation of the opposites (Martin and Nakayama 77). These dialectics include cultural-individual‚ personal-contextual‚ differences-similarities‚ static-dynamic‚ history/past-present/future‚ and privilege disadvantage dialectics. Using these

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    The Direct and Indirect Impact of Rhetoric Emory Lott 12/05/96 English 1001 In the world that we live in‚ rhetoric always affects and is a part of everything that happens. Rhetoric‚ in its broadest sense‚ is communication‚ and how people relate to each other. The movie The Color Purple is about relationships. Therefore rhetoric plays a very important role in this movie. Throughout The Color Purple the impact of rhetoric can be seen in two groups of people‚ the communicator

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