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Traversing Racial and National Boundaries: Adopting Transracially and Internationally
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Abstract I come from an all-White family. No one is adopted and no one has married across racial lines. Raised in a primarily White and largely Catholic Midwestern city, I have a series of troubling memories about race from growing up. The worst happened when I was walking with my paternal grandf...
"Making Ourselves a(t) Home in Academia": The Founding of OSCLG
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Sample 1973—AnaMaria dropped her suitcase on the bed and grabbed an apple from the fridge. After flying all day from one coast of the United States to the other, she was starving. She had just returned from the annual convention of the Speech Communication Association (SCA),2 disillusioned by eve...
Chaos, Informational Voids, and Emergent Organizations: The Case of West Virginia's Water and Freedom Industries
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Sample Crises are, by their nature, shocking, disruptive, and often dangerous events. Three characteristics—threat, surprise, and short response time—are indicative of crisis events (Hermann, 1963). Those who are threatened by crises feel a sudden danger that they did not anticipate and they must...
Inside Anthropology
Author(s): Marjorie Snipes
100 Questions to Answer Before Getting Married
Author(s): Sharon McCann
100 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married is a sociologogical take on what marriage means in 2021. Absolutely not a dry academic read, this book is personal, straight forward, and eye opening. This is the sociology of marriage as it applies to you. Highly recommended for anyone who is ever cons...
The HPV Mandatory Vaccination Controversy: Creating a Frame of Perspective for Public Health Initiatives
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Abstract In June 2006, the vaccine GARDASIL® was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a way to prevent infection from four strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) responsible for cervical cancer and genital warts. Less than one year after FDA approval, Texas Governor Rick ...
Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood: An Application of Neo-PR
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Sample All organizations deal with risk and therefore it is safe to assume that almost all organizations face crises. Two questions arise: What specific risks does an individual organization face and how can those risks manifest into crises? These are important queries and ones that have garnered...
The "Helicopter" Parent and College Athletic Disappointment
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Abstract This case focuses on relational communication in sport and involves a “helicopter” parent, Alicia, who hovers over her son and pressures him to be a successful basketball player from high school to college at State University. In college, Alicia’s son, Esteban, struggles to adjust to the...