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W., 1997. Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Crockett, S. & Hays, D., 2011. Understanding and responding to the career counseling needs of international students. Journal of College Counselling, Volume 14, pp. 65-79. Cross, H., Kenney, G., Mell, J. & Zimmerman , W., 1989. Differential Treatment of Hispanic and Anglo Job Seekers: Hiring Practices in Two Cities. Washington DC: Urban Inst.. Crossman, J. E. & Clarke, M., 2010.…

In 1855 he became a math lecturer at his college, one year after graduating. He would make up games and stories/ poems some of which would foreshadow events in Alice in Wonderland (“Lewis Carroll” 1). He then became absorbed with photography and writing, his interests were children and famous people…

Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.483. ISBN:9780192803429 In Dynamics of Destruction, Kramer begins the book on August 28th, 1914 with German troops invading Louvain destroying the Halles University library that contains “hundreds of thousands of volumes, rare and ancient manuscripts … [that] all had been burned…

Plagiarism according to Oxford Dictionary, is a term referred to stealing other people’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions and representing them as one 's own original work. It came into common use in the academic context very long time ago and becoming more in use now as the access to academic resources become much easier and not limited to certain people as it was before. Previous research has been conducted on that topic in The University of Illinois at Chicago but their sample…

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, philosopher, professor, naturalist, transcendentalist and historian. He is known as one of the best American authors for his great ideas. During his life, Thoreau’s writings were not so significant. He fought for the abolition of slavery in United States of America in 19th Century. People who claimed Africans’ slavery thought that they did not have souls. In their view, Africans are some merchandise. Thoreau’s most famous writings are…

The Oxford American published the essay, “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here”, in which Dr. Mark Edmundson, as a Yale alumni and English professor at the University of Virginia, persuades incoming college freshmen to choose their passions rather than career fields that will earn them an immense amount of money. Edmundson begins suggesting that students must remain focused and resillent to outside factors in order to assure a successful education. Lastly, the author advises the readers the…

As all Americans know William Jefferson Blythe III Clinton as Bill Clinton, they also know President Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States of America. He was in office for two terms in 1993 through 2001 after the Cold War, which ended 1991. He was the last president in the 20th century. President Clinton was elected president in 1992 and won against George H. W. Bush. I was interested on doing a research paper on President Clinton because he helped Americans who needed health…

There seem to be numerous groups on a college campus, each sharing at least one particular cultural trait in common. However, there is one group on campus that is composed of people from different cultural backgrounds and walks of life. These are the international students. This is an ever growing subset of those attending an American university, making up almost 820,000 students across all colleges and universities in the United States during the 2012-13 academic year (Institute of…

What is knowledge? In a layman term, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, knowledge is defined as ‘the fact or condition of having acquired a practical understanding or command of, or competence or skill in a particular subject, language, etc through instruction, study or practice skill or expertise acquired in a certain subject through learning’ (Oxford English Dictionary, 2014 Oxford University Press). On the other hand, in the sociology of knowledge, it is defined as the study of the…

ways. They evince both chaos and order, showing that the relationship between each can be transient and mercurial. He was a good student. He knew it, his classmates knew it, and his classmate’s parents knew it. While he furthered education in college, he was the academic student of the year. Not only did he come first in the team event for talent time, but also, won the best performance in the school’s sport meet. This was most likely owing to his undying persistence. “If I could not outrun…