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    eight hours into a twelve hour shift. She only got to eat half of her lunch‚ she hasn’t been able to use the bathroom for a few hours‚ and her favorite patient lost their fight that morning and so her mascara that she threw on that morning‚ haphazardly while still half asleep‚ is no longer on her eyelashes‚ but smeared onto her dark eye bags. Also‚ the only other nurse on her unit called in sick this morning‚ and no one could come in to cover. In the book The Shift: One Nurse‚ Twelve Hours‚ Four Patients’

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    The name of the book is $ 40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise‚ Fall‚ and Redemption of the Black Athlete. The author is William C. Rhoden. Crown Publishers‚ a division of Random House‚ Inc New York‚ published the book in 2006. The book contains 276 pages. The author William Rhoden‚ a Morgan State University graduate‚ has been a sports writer for the New York Times since 1983. He has written for the "Sports of Times" column for more than ten years. Mr. Rhoden also wrote a documentary of the African-American

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    Twelve Who Ruled and R. R. Palmer The book‚ Twelve Who Ruled‚ covers a very complex period‚ the French Revolution. Robert Roswell Palmer; author of the book‚ brings our attention of twelve men who have a chance to change society‚ institutions‚ and political beliefs. Palmer takes our thoughts drawn to the brutality and dictatorship of this time period and shares with us how idealism can conrupt and damage a nation as a whole. Oppression is the sense and theme of emotion I feel when reading this

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    Robert Peel’s twelve standards of policing starts with the standard of police being “stable‚ efficient‚ and organized along military lines” (Bohm & Haley‚ 2011‚ p. 141). This basically means that policing in general needs to be structured‚ much like the military. The second standard states that the government must control the police force‚ which in America means that they are not independently ran by a company‚ but by the government of that jurisdiction. Next he states that the police will be judged

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    especially black women. During the times of the 1800s to the 1900s slave women fought extremely hard for their right to be free and to be considered equal to men. There were three well known slaves who told their stories of how women experienced slavery and freedom Sojourner Truth‚ Solomon Northup and Harriet Wilson. Sojourner Truth was a six-foot tall slave turned feminist and antislavery activist. As a woman and an emancipated slave Truth experienced an ordeal like no other. She never learned to

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    There is no other way in describing stories about slavery‚ other than coming from a former slave himself. “The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina” is a book on the life of John Andrew Jackson‚ a former slave who escaped his plantation with plans that he made up as he went on. Jackson talks about the trials and difficulties he‚ his family‚ and other slaves went through while being on plantations in South Carolina. Jackson and others have been through it all‚ they have been whipped‚ almost whipped

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    In her article “Slave‚ Master‚ Mistress‚ Slave”‚ published in 1997‚ Betsy Klimasmith discusses the literary work of Louisa May Alcott. Among others‚ Klimasmith investigates the problem of interracial intersexual relationship in Alcott’s fiction. More precisely‚ the scholar claims that describing the relationship between white women and mulatto men in different texts‚ Alcott reveals the deficiency of sentimental fiction when it comes to picturing the whole spectre of female desire. By doing so‚ Alcott

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the story of Harriet Jacobs‚ who‚ for her protection‚ named herself Linda Brent in the story. L. Maria Child‚ a prominent white abolitionist‚ decided to edit Jacob’s book‚ even though she seemingly did slight modifications to the writing but to reorganize some segments‚ recommend the elimination of one chapter‚ and add material to another. "Reader it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered. I do it to kindle a

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    Prologue - Chapter One: Before the story began‚ Charlie Wilcox started his adventure at the age of fourteen by being shipped off to England‚ by a boy with the name of Clint‚ who tormented Charlie for years before he left for war. In England‚ Charlie fought many battles‚ where he also had made many friends. Now‚ Charlie returned to his homeland‚ where his friends and family awaited. Chapter Two - Chapter Three: Now that Charlie had arrived home safely‚ Charlie remembered the things he had once

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    Running Head: Chapter Summary Chapter 6 Summary Principles of Management Mayville State University Jamal Branco October 14‚ 2014 Author Note: Chapter 3 Summary is being submitted to Professor Robert Johnston on October 14‚ 2014 by Jamal Branco as part of his studies in Principles of Management at Mayville State University 2 Hours Three Types of Uncertainty For a long time environmental uncertainty has been a catch all term among managers and researchers but as time went on researchers discovered

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