Abstract
This paper presents a detailed examination of consociational models and whether they would work in deeply divided societies. The writer explores the models being used in several other places including the Netherlands and Switzerland. The reader is first given a detailed explanation of how such a model operates and what its positive aspects are. Then the writer touches on some of the negative aspects. Finally the entire idea is brought to the door of deeply divided societies and the writer explains whether or not the model can be applied to those divided societies successfully.

From the Paper
"Every society likes to entertain the belief that they have the truth in the best societal practice. If asked each government will tell the inquirer that their form of government and their societal system is the most well thought out and best system there is. Part of this may come from the need to believe they are providing the best possible system for those who live within its boundaries, and part of it may be a true belief that it is the best because they are comfortable with its operation. The truth is often somewhere in the middle and the systems could always use some tweaking to make them as perfect as their representatives would have them sound."

Tags:society, culture, division, democracy, border, government

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This paper provides a review of the PBS documentary "A Class Divided," a film that chronicles the reunion of teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade students who she put through her famous "Brown-Eye/Blue Eye" experiment to reveal the ugliness of discrimination.

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"The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary, "A Class Divided" directed by William Peters and starring school teacher Jane Elliott, is a ... minute video about Elliott's third-grade classroom. Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiment: The experiment demonstrates that discrimination has a negative effect on student performance even after only one day of students being subjected to discrimination. The documentary includes the reunion of Elliott and her third grade class a decade and a half after the experiment to discuss the lasting impact of the experience on them..."

Tags:minorities, academic performance, prejudice, learning, social justice, teaching, leadership

Abstract
The writer presents a commentary on Gloria Anzaldua, a half-breed lesbian. She says she wants her dignity based on her Aztec background restored, but the writer emphasizes that she is a triple outsider--racially mixed breed as well as a lesbian and that her divided loyalties at least rival that of those from whom she seeks acceptance.

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"The problem of seeing the world as a single cosmic race lies in the unwillingness of the majority to take in those who beg for admittance. We unfortunately are not ready to accept some people who we feel do not "belong.". Realizing that this is a very prejudiced viewpoint, one must stress that it is not a personal opinion but, sad to say, one that the majority feel: you are either "one of us" in terms of color, gender, religion, ethnic background or sexual preference, or you are left somewhat diminished. There is no doubt that the world is filled with culture clashes. Close to ..."

Tags:mestizo, lesbian, race

Abstract
These papers discuss two documentaries, "A Class Divided" and "Quiet Rage," and apply psychological concepts and key theories to the respective films. Each paper is a brief summary and elaborates on a concept discussed in the writer's class.

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"This film, a record of a 1970 experiment done by an Iowa Schoolteacher named Jane Elliot, gives third graders a firsthand account of the psychological, social and specific academic ramifications of discrimination. In the forty-five minute documentary, the teacher takes her class and divides them into a blue-eyed group and a brown-eyed group. The blue eyed group, on the first day, gets special privileges that the brown eyes don't get, and reinforces the notion that the blue eyes are better through praise. The brown-eyed group wears special collars to further differentiate the two groups. On the second day, however, the..."

Tags:psychology, documentary, rhetoric

Abstract
This paper analyzes Jill Smolowe's article, "A Town Divided", about six young African-American male high school students, labeled the Jena 6 by the media, who were arrested and charged with attempted murder in an adult courtroom for beating a young Caucasian male student to unconsciousness. The paper first presents background information about the incident and then takes a look how the article covered it. Specifically, the paper discusses the ethos, logos, and pathos of the articles and concludes that, overall, the article is effective in creating sympathetic feelings for the Jena 6, as the original charges they faced and their initial treatment was definitely unfair.

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Commentary
Argument Analysis Essay

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"The argument in this piece is very subtle but obviously clear and seeks to present the six African American males as sympathetic characters, which is the ethos of this article. Only the African American point of view is presented in interviews with some of the accused and their families, with none of the Caucasian participants given a chance to speak or express their side of the story. This logos makes sense when the aim of the article is to humanize one faction in a story, while demonizing the other."

Tags:unfair, subtle, sympathy, interviews, demonizing

Abstract
Studies of divided attention have shown that the degree to which one task interferes with another will depend in part on the stimulus and response characteristics of the two tasks. This paper proposes a study in which participants will at average recall a significantly higher number of words when performing a dissimilar task (listening and doing manual work) as compared with performing a similar task (reading a prose passage).
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Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Design
Participants
Apparatus
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Appendices

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"A study on task similarity by Allport et al. (1972) was done using participants who heard a list of words presented through headphones into one ear. The participant's task was to simply shadow these words. Simultaneously, participants were also presented with a second list. No immediate response was required to the second list but later on memory was tested for these items. Allport et.al. used three conditions. In one condition, the memory items consisting of words were presented into the other ear, so that participants were hearing and shadowing a list of words in one ear while simultaneously hearing the memory list in the other ear. In the second and third conditions, the memory items were presented visually by a different list of words and pictures respectively on a screen. Allport et al. suggested that the first condition (hear words + hear words) involves very similar tasks, and the second and third condition (hear words + see words/pictures) involves less similar tasks. "

Tags:cognitive, empirical, freud, memory

Abstract
This paper explores Lincoln's eloquence of language and simplicity of reason that brought him to the attention of the newly-formed political party known as the Republicans and prompted them to present him to a surprised Washington as their platform's candidate in the presidential election of 1860. The abolition of slavery and the events concerning this issue are discussed in detail.

Table of contents

A Personal View of A Divided Nation
A Pragmatic Policy Toward Emancipation
A Short Second Term

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"Abraham Lincoln's election to the U.S. presidency occurred at a time when tensions between the Northern and Southern sectors of the nation had been embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding slavery for quite some time. By the time of the 1860 election, Lincoln's view on the institution of slavery was common and widespread knowledge within both the North and the South, and each of these sectors had both preconceptions and expectations of the new president's first official acts of office. Both sides, along with the majority of Washington officials, expected an immediate proclamation concerning the abolition of slavery. Both sides, as well as Washington, however, were yet again surprised, for the new president had on his mind and as his policy a more gradual and pragmatic emancipation plan."

Tags:political, debate, issue, slavery, Illinois, attorney, Republican, Chief, Executive, Officer, equality, morally, ethically, abolishment, reunification

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This six-page undergraduate paper is a book review of the book, Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor, by Paul Kleppner. The author summarizes the book, discusses its interesting and boring aspects, and suggests how the book could have been better.

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This paper examines how in "The Republic", Plato introduces both the allegories of the "Cave" and the "Divided Line" in order to further his explanation of the perfect government. It looks at how he believes that the state will be perfectly ordered if a guardian who knows the "Good" is in charge of it and how he uses the allegories to enable his readers to understand the intellectual transition that the guardians must go through to understand what is "Good".

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"There are six stages to the allegory of the Cave. (a) In an underground cave, a group of prisoners are held captive in such a way that they can only see the back wall of the cave. Behind them is a large fire and in between them and the fire people are walking with artifacts so that shadows are projected onto the back wall of the cave (514a-515c). (b) They are set free and turn to look at the fire, but can see neither it nor the artifacts as they are dazzled by the bright light (515c-e). (c) They are forced out of the cave and into the world above and can see nothing clearly owing to dazzling so they look at the shadows that the sun projects (515e-516a). (d) Eventually they come to look at actual objects (516a)."

Tags:aristotle, sun, government

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This paper presents and analyzes Abraham Lincoln famous speech, "House Divided". The paper describes why this speech, in which Lincoln addressed more than one thousand Republican representatives at the Republican Convention in 1858, was so successful. The paper presents some examples from the speech and describes its content.

From the Paper
"Three years prior to his legendary presidency, Abraham Lincoln addressed more than one thousand Republican representatives at the Republican Convention in 1858. Although the speech was initially condemned for its radical and seemingly inappropriate content, Lincoln's craftily constructed speech effectively established and defeated his enemy through a variety of rhetorical tactics. The success of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech lies in his ability to first elicit fear by creating a real threat and ultimately in overpowering that threat alongside his fellow morally upright Republicans, thus becoming a people's hero. Lincoln accomplishes this by constructing an unstable political atmosphere augmented by a conspiracy of past and present presidents in cahoots with legislators, namely the ever devious Stephen Douglas. He symbolically defeats these public enemies through a variety of strategies including a series of hypophoras in which he answers his own questions aimed to discredit Douglas and company, while simultaneously presenting himself as enlightened and superior by dismissively addressing the threat he constructed as easily assailable."

Tags:Stephen, Douglas, conspiracy