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The Clinger-Cohen Act, 2004.
An overview of the Information Technology (IT) Management Reform Act (ITMRA), otherwise known as the Clinger-Cohen Act.
1,484 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines how, originally formed in 1989, the Information Technology Management Reform Act and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act were amended in the year 1996 and renamed as the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA). It shows how the objective of CCA is to influence performance-based and results-based management by means of an effective use of information technology (IT). It also discusses how the CCA also gives various means to government information technology to function in the same manner as any well-organized and cost-effective business would operate.
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Introduction
Clinger-Cohen Act & Law Governing IT Management
Requirements for Chief Information Officer
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"In order to ensure that information technology activities align with agency plans and operations, senior user management guidance is used along with standard evaluation of information technology skills record, skills necessities, and skills development programs. In brief, the Clinger-Cohen Act attempts to develop an operative and well-organized, mission-oriented, user-oriented and results-oriented information technology practice in all Federal agencies (University Washington)."
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Shirley Cohen's Book on Autism, 2004.
A book review "Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism and Related Disorders" by Shirley Cohen.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper presents an overview and discussion of Shirley Cohen's book, "Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know and Can Do to Help Young Children With Autism and Related Disorders". The paper focuses on areas most relevant to educators and includes an overall review of the book. The paper contends that Cohen's book is a comprehensive and objective examination of the key areas of autism.
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"Shirley Cohen's "Targeting Autism: What We Know Don't Know and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism and Related Disorders" offers comprehensive and objective examination of the key areas of autism. The subsequent review of this book will thus offer a concise overview of the book with a special focus on specific areas that can be highly useful to educators. Furthermore the impact of the book on my views as an educator will also be presented. Divided into three parts this book first introduces readers to..."
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Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Ali G Show", 2008.
Describes Sacha Baron Cohen's British television comedy "The Ali G Show".
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper explains that the British comedy "The Ali G Show" revolves around four interviews by three different characters played by the Baron Cohen: Ali G, Borat and Bruno. The author points out that each of the characters come from different countries, have different cultural backgrounds and interests and usually target different aspects of the American society. The paper relates that the goal of the show is to emphasize different underlying traits of the American society and how the influences of the American modern culture are impacting the rest of the world.
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"This brings us back to Ali G, the character coagulating the entire show. As a hip hop TV show host, I think that Ali G wants to bring together the stereotypes that the other two characters have sought and met throughout the US and summarize the cultural impact of the US culture as simply a culture of ignorant hip-hopers. Ali G is a "completely illiterate, wannabe gangsta, from this streets of Stains, England" who discovers America by being ignorant. By this, Cohen plays into bringing forth the ignorant characteristics of the Americans themselves, in his view. "
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Cohen and Brawer's "The Collegiate Function Of Community Colleges", 1995.
This paper reviews Cohen and Brawer's "The Collegiate Function Of Community Colleges" work about the community colleges' purpose, effectiveness, curriculum, transfer function and social factors.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer, in "The Collegiate Function of Community Colleges: Fostering Higher Learning Through Curriculum and Student Transfer", describe and analyze the factors shaping the community college "as a link between the lower schools and establishments of higher learning" (xi). As such, the community college is clearly a significant cog in the educational system in the United States, and the representatives and leaders of the community college must be sensitive to the educational realities of those "lower schools" and to the educational needs of those "establishments of higher learning."
Generally, with certain reservations, the authors are optimistic about the community college's fulfillment of this collegiate function: We are encouraged by the way the collegiate connection
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"Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution" by Stephen Cohen, 1992.
A political biography of the rise and fall of the early 20th century Russian leader.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Stephen F. Cohen. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938. Rev. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Stephen F. Cohen's biography of Nikolai Bukharin, first published in 1973, is an attempt to do much more than simply produce a political biography of a prominent Bolshevik who fell from grace with Stalin in the late 1920s and was executed on trumped-up charges during the great purge a decade later. It is also, and more importantly, an attempt to produce a new general perspective on the fate of the Russian Revolution, and to argue that a viable, more "liberal" alternative path to Stalinism existed in Soviet Russia -- a path whose prime exponent was Bukharin -- although it was not in the end the path that was followed."
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"The Four Voyages Of Christopher Columbus" ( Edited by J.M. Cohen ), 1999.
Analyzes the motivations of this explorer (including religious, personal, economic and adventure) in first-person accounts of his New World voyages.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"The motivations of Christopher Columbus and other figures in The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, edited by J.M. Cohen, are varied and contradictory. Certainly, those motivations were not purely the result of high religious principles, for the lure of gold, land, slaves, power and prestige also played a major role in driving these men to seek, reach and exploit the New World. The reader must keep in mind that the book is written by men who were likely presenting what they saw as a positive portrait of their activities and intentions. Nevertheless, the full range of their motives comes through. One passage from the account of Columbus's son demonstrates the jumble of motives at work in the hearts and minds of these Europeans in their relations with the natives:
On receiving such kindnesses and such samples of gold from..."
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Status Frustration, 2005.
This paper discuses the work of Albert K. Cohen and his theory of status frustration, which maintains that the proverbial "Man" (stereotypical black man) is essentially a function of sub-culture.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper explains that Cohen's theory of status frustration, which explains that lower class boys are failures at bourgeois roles because they do not fit the bourgeois mold physically or through their learned mindset and thus tend to invert defensively the dominant norms, viewing them in a negative manner. The author relates that, although Cohen's' notion of status deprivation and the middle class measuring rod help to answer questions that remain unresolved by strain and cultural deviance theories, his theory fails to explain why some delinquent subcultures eventually become law-abiding, even when this social class position is fixed. The paper states that Cohen's theory also fails by standards of economists, who explain criminality, in particularly theft and robbery by gangs, by economic standards.
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"In 1955, Cohen wrote "Delinquent Boys" to examine how a subculture emerged. He noted that delinquency among young men was more prevalent among the lower classes, and most commonly took the form of a juvenile gang. Cohen found that the values of delinquent subcultures are adverse to those of the dominant culture. The subcultures emerged in the slums of the nation's largest cities and are rooted in class differentials, parental aspirations and school standards, indicating that the root problem was a desire for recognition and respect, and the search for an accepted place in society."
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Egyptians, Israelis, and Cultural Divides, 2006.
A review and analysis of Raymond Cohen's book, "Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper presents a review of Raymond Cohen's book, "Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue pf The Deaf". The genesis and structure of the argument, as well as Cohen's style and methods are reviewed. The analysis presents a mixed review -- appreciative of the insights Cohen offers, but skeptical that he is completely objective in his argument.
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"Making a New Deal", 2005.
Discusses Lizabeth Cohen's book, "Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses Lizabeth Cohen's book about the Chicago workers in 1919-1939. In the paper the issues of how the labor struggles began between the factory owners, the minority workers, and the white workers are examined. It discusses Cohen's perception that the workers were forced to take jobs that offered low wages and bad working conditions because they did not have the ability to form unions. This is Cohen's view of how these workers overcame adversity and progressed to start their unions.
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"Lizabeth Cohen, author if Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, writes about the Chicago workforce in the early 1900s, and the alterations that took place in their lives that caused permanent change for the American worker (5). Cohen begins her discussion by examining the fact that workers in 1919 were struggling in a world that had just come to the conclusion of WWI (13). This was significant to all Americans because thousands of men were returning from combat and expecting jobs to be open. These jobs were being accomplished by a strong force of minority and white laborers. However, the white laborers believed that they were entitled to better wages and positions and often created strikes (Cohen 43)."
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?The Boundaries of Blackness".
This paper reviews Cathy J. Cohen's ?The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics?, which discusses the debate regarding the absence of a strong African-American vote.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 58.95
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This paper explains that Cohen challenges the notion of a cohesive African-American vote by noting that African-Americans failed to become a strong political force because their political, business, and church leaders focus on imbibing the values of mainstream, middle-class America. The author points out that Cohen argues that, despite the growing threat of AIDS, African-American leadership failed to galvanize the population around this issue, which affects African-Americans as a group, despite categorical differences. The paper states that the Cohen believes that the attitudes of black leaders resulted in a secondary marginalization of gays and lesbians, who, due to their race and sexual orientation, remained among the most disenfranchised citizens.
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"Cohen begins by dispelling the notion of a politically-cohesive African American community, one wherein race supposedly overrides differences spawned by class, gender or even ethnicity. Instead, she maintains that this cohesion is ?being challenged and sometimes replaced by cross-cutting issues and crises rooted in or built on the often hidden differences, cleavages, or fault lines of marginal communities? (9). There is thus no strong ?black vote,? because the African American community is highly fragmented and factionalized."
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Jews in the Middle Ages, 2007.
This paper analyzes the book "Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages" by Mark R. Cohen.
1,289 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper relates how throughout their long history, the Jewish people have often been the object of persecution and prejudice. The paper looks at how Cohen's book, "Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages", maintains that during the Middle Ages, Jews living in the Arab world were more tolerated and less persecuted than those living in the Christian world. The paper shows how Cohen proves his thesis with historical research and solid arguments, discussing his historical findings. The paper discusses the significance of this work in the field of Jewish studies.
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"The author begins by "debunking" several myths on both sides of the debate, so he can level the playing field. He indicates there were misunderstanding and misinterpretations on both sides of the debate, and that Jews and Arabs have both helped perpetuate some of these misinterpretations. He then begins to compare life in the Christian world opposed to that in the Islamic world, and begin to sort out the information regarding Jews in both worlds. For example, he notes that in the Christian world in the Middle Ages, most Jews lived under the mantle of serfdom that decreed who they worked for, where they lived, while Jews in the Arab world did not serve and serfs, and could choose to live wherever they wanted (Cohen 46). Thus, Jews in the Arab world had better living arrangements, and were better off in that regard."
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"History in Three Keys", 2007.
A review of Paul A. Cohen's "History in Three Keys" about the Boxer Rebellion.
1,442 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper relates that the Boxer Rebellion took place from 1898-1900, in Northern China and was waged between ordinary, lower class native Chinese peasants against the foreign missionaries. The paper explains that Cohen's book is more of a history as to how the rebellion has been interpreted, than it is of the immediate implications of the event itself and its aftermath. The paper discusses how Cohen's ideas are useful in terms of how to approach history, particularly historical events that have become especially fraught with meaning in modern culture, way beyond their immediate impact.
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"Paul Cohen is a professor of East Asian history with an openly postmodern orientation. The title of the book refers to Cohen's understanding of the rebellion as an event that can be viewed with a series of lenses, rather than a singular historian's lens. The rebellion is an event, experience and also a myth. Significantly, Cohen does not refer to any specific detail about the rebellion in his title; he is more concerned with describing his three-keyed approach to understanding the Boxers, rather than referring to the Boxers themselves. Even the name, the Boxer rebellion, is polluted to some extent in Cohen's eyes, because the idea of the Boxers has become so subject to political influences of people with agendas beyond mere understanding."
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Kurt Lewin: Field Theory Meets Autism, 2005.
A unique perspective on how Kurt Lewin's Field Theory may be applied to modern day work in the field of autism in respect to Theory of Mind as outlined by S. Baron-Cohen.
3,263 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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Kurt Lewin's contributions to the current field of psychology are voluminous, however his name may be more obscure from the average student's list of greatest scientific contributors. Nonetheless this paper provides the opportunity to bring Lewin's Field Theory into relationship with the more modern contributions of S. Baron-Cohen's Theory of Mindreading to discuss its current applications with autism. The paper includes figures.
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History of Kurt Lewin
The Lasting Impact of Cassirer
Field Theory
Theory of Mind
Mindreading
Research in Autism and Theory of Mind
Behavioral Treatment for ASD
Discussion
Field Theory, Theory of Mind and Autism
References
Figures
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"Relating Theory of mind back to the original equation of Field Theory, the Cognitive Attributes of Theory of Mind belong to the person. Being Mindblind or being a Mindreader is not a function of environment, rather it is an innate quality belonging to the person. Baron-Cohen (1995) believes it to be an adaptive process for survival but regardless of it origination it is within the person and is part of his/her unique lifespace. This point will play into how Theory of Mind and Field Theory may explain why ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the most effective treatment for ASD."
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Oedipus and the Absurd Life, 2003.
An argument against the views of Robert Cohen's argument in "Oedipus and the Absurd Life".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper disagrees with Robert Cohen's argument in "Oedipus and the Absurd Life" that Oedipus is a bullheaded, unschooled primitive and his persistence brings about his downfall. The primary source is Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus."
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"In Robert Cohen's Oedipus and the Absurd Life, Cohen's estimation of Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus is frequently harsh. As Cohen writes Oedipus is stubborn, bullheaded, frequently stupid, often rude and admittedly and unashamedly..."
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"Out of the Shadow", 2004.
A review of the autobiography, "Out of the Shadow" by Rose Cohen.
1,996 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses "Out of the Shadow" by Rose Cohen, a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the century and who provides the personal aspect of the greater story of the massive wave of immigration in the late 1800s. It addresses the effects of the rapid growth of industry on the population, the role of women in the social and economic system, and the complicated tangle of religion and society in America.
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"Rose Cohen's "Out of the Shadow" is the quintessential immigrants autobiography, as it succeeds in not only depicting one woman's personal story but in shedding light upon many common issues faced by immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I was interested in reading the book to find out what life was like for a female, Jewish immigrant from Russia in the late 1800s with so many strikes against her (her being female, Jewish, and an Eastern European immigrant). What I found is that Out of the Shadow paints a picture of an America that is contrary to the land of opportunity and equality that many immigrants believed it to be before arriving and that many Americans today proclaim it to be. By describing her experiences in the garment industry, bearing witness to the burgeoning labor and progressive movements, and testifying to the compromising of her religious and cultural practices, Cohen provides a realistic framework within which to understand the history of the 1800s and early 1900s."
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