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    into a unified majority” (4). This majority would be economically and intellectually prepared for the “New Economy.” Newfield believes that conservatives were opposed to this change in the status quo and because of that started the culture wars. He continues that “the culture wars have coincided with the majority’s economic decline by reducing the public importance and economic claims of the American university and its graduates” (6). Thus, the attacks on the public research university university

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    There are two ways to introduce the genes of other species into plants. The most popular and effective method is Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The other is particle bombardment. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation involves the transfer of a gene into the Ti (tumor-inducing) plasmid of Agrobacterium. Upon infection of the host plant, Agrobacterium exploits the immune response to incorporate its DNA into that of the host

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    matrimony. As “Wonder Women” within the Greek culture, Artemis is the virgin goddess of the hunt, is a strong independent figure that goes against marriage. In a man run world, Artemis chooses to live life on Earth. She spends her time in nature’s solitude with her maidens, and rarely participates in human affairs. When one reads the myths of Artemis, the idea that comes across is that anyone who obstructs Artemis’ goals, pays dearly. The myths “The Transformation of Actaeon into a Stag” and “Niobe” reveal

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    two major events happened in world history. One of these events was the global spread of Christianity, and the other was the emergence of the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was often seen as an immense intellectual and cultural transformation and arguably one of the most important events that happened between 1450 and 1750. However, the spread of Christianity proved to be more beneficial and benevolent than the Scientific Revolution. While the unity of the Roman Catholic Christianity

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    connected to the same meaning. Also, the movie illustrates how the drummer tells Mona to go back to her past. Sankofa is looking backwards to the past in order to grow and move forward to what the future holds. This is directly related to Mona’s transformation she makes after going back and experiencing where she came from. She starts this journey naive and unsure of her identity or history, but after seeing the past she matures and and finds herself. This suggests to Mona

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    Aside from the approach taken by Elaine Tyler May and Jessica Weiss, Alan Petigny argues in his book The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 against the traditional narrative of the 1950s being the years of conservative values, religious resurgence, and family orientation. Instead, Peking argues that American social norms remained conservative during the 1950s, however, personal values and behavior underwent a significant process of liberalization between 1941 and 1965. This is a similar view

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    permitting instantaneous sharing of everything from memes to goods and services. Furthermore, the Internet permits distance education that allows the transfer of labor across different geographic zones. The Internet is implicated in political process transformations, too, possibly responsible for catalyzing mass protest movements around the world. There are no aspects of human economic, political, and social life that are now independent of Internet influence. Zhao (2006) comments on the fundamental ways

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    a rapidly changing world, we must strive to sustain the transformation and remain true to our ethos. Across the Marine Corps the culture of each unit is different, with sustaining the transformation as our tool we can make each unit better for new generations of Marines. Marine Raider Training Center sustains the transformation by holding quarterly promotion panels to ensure deserving promotions; however it fails to sustain the transformation by not welcoming new Marines to the unit appropriately

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    structured in a way that engages and attracts officials with similar beliefs and values making up the organizational culture. It makes certain that new employees are assimilated to the company and go ahead to strengthen the corporate culture. Organizations should also make sure that they bring into line the corporate culture with systems for performance management. When management systems and culture are not in line, management must readdress them so that the behavior of its employees results in the attainment

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    War as Transformation Many people look for reason in warfare. The reasons humans decide to kill each other are varied. Many wars start over land, difference of religion and culture, or economic stress. While there have been many wars over the years that man has inhabited this planet, World War I sticks out because of one incident that took place during the war. On December 25th, 1916 the Waring factions took essentially a "Christmas break" from their fighting, and went into enemy territory

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