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Health Care Disparities at Hope Hospital: Impotent Government Relations and Injured Communities

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Abstract A respected newspaper reports about racial disparities in health care provided by the local Hope Hospital. City council members, including Tom Farghes representing District 1, try to reach out to their constituents to alleviate concerns and quiet criticism. The election is coming soon. B...

Muslims, Head Coverings, and Fantasy Football: Moving Beyond the Stereotype

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Sample In an introduction to interpersonal communication course at a Midwestern university students are assigned a listening project that requires them to learn about themselves and others by selecting a representative of a group whose perspective they would not ordinarily listen to.1 Two days af...

Public Speaking Strategies

Author(s): Mark Huglen, Megan Bell, Lynette M. Mullins, Kevin Duane Thompson

This new edition includes insight into how to avoid microaggressions when public speaking and information to advance remote presentation skills. No doubt there is racial tension and racial strife in the world today, and some of those tensions are obvious and affect us to the core emotionally. There ...

Health-Related Self-Disclosure Online: Emotion Expression by One Online Community Member Across 460 Posts

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Sample Developing a serious or chronic health condition can be a life-changing event (Bury, 1982). Along with physical and psychological symptoms, illness often creates a range of challenges involving one’s relationships, occupation, finances, and several other domains. Sharing one’s experiences ...

Developmental Reading II Workbook

Author(s): LAUREL SEVERINO WOOLSEY

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Moving Across Disciplines and Genres: Reading Identity in Illness Narratives and Reflective Writing Texts

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Sample For this chapter, we propose to discuss the concept of identity within the two text genres of life writing and reflective writing, situated within the larger field of illness narratives. We consider the concept of identity construction an ideal entry point for our analyses since both the r...

Move Breathe Connect: Exploring Wellness Through Your Yoga

Author(s): TARA MACCHIONI, EMILY PAULY

Move, Breathe, Connect will be your guide as you experience and define your yoga.  Parts of your journey will trace the paths that existed long ago, but you will also be encouraged to forge new trails that are uniquely yours. Along the way, you will discover that yoga is a journey toward wellness th...

Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals

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Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals is a college level textbook that provides an introduction to the subject of coordinate systems and datums. Designed as a textbook for a course for surveyors and GIS professionals the book centers on the three dimensionality that is essential in the modern ...