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In Telling the Success Story, Pamela Benoit analyzes the success story as a delicate interpersonal accomplishment that involves balancing complimenting, bragging, modesty, and self-enhancement. She argues that success stories are self-presentations that are fundamental to interpersonal communication. This discourse involves the negotiation of personal identities and affects relational outcomes. It is important for individuals, businesses, and ...

Lessons from Restructuring Experiences describes the process of collaborative educational reform in the context of the professional development school model. First-person stories and literature reviews show how "reformed" schools and universities look and assess the impact of such reform on students, teachers, and colleges of education. Intended for readers interested in establishing or assessing collaborative reform efforts, the book is organ...

This special issue of positions examines the "Comfort Women" system that drafted 200, 000 Asian women into sexual slavery during the Pacific War, and attempts to entangle its history and cultural consequences.

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This is a practical and up-to-date guide to the valuation and hedging of standard exotic options. It explores each type of option in detail and should be useful for all those who need clearer practical understanding of this area of high finance.

Subsequent chapters examine the most pressing questions posed by feminism about reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Black feminism and "the personal is political" in relation to a variety of mainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust.

In this monologue, a woman laments her inability to come to resolve about how to help the problems of the world. Her busy schedule?all perfectly legitimate and needful activities?leave her exhausted, with little time or effort to make a dent in world hunger. Even her trips to the shopping mall create despair as she encounters a homeless woman there. She's left frustrated, complaining, "Even if I make a difference, it won't make a difference.

A waitress at a small coffee shop makes life a little better for everyone she encounters. An especially obnoxious hairdresser?a regular?dumps a truckload of problems during the time she's there to grab lunch. But the waitress takes it in stride, doing what she can to support and encourage the other. The two women are a striking contrast?both doing jobs that are sometimes tiring, but one finding ways to serve people while the other complains an...

Miriam, the town librarian, has just returned from her retirement celebration with her adult daughter, Laura. Miriam is somewhat quiet. Laura asks how she's feeling about the new library being named after the man who donated the land instead of after her, the person who built the library up from nothing. Miriam?with typical humility?says she feels the honor should go to the landowner, but we know she feels somewhat hurt. Just then, a man stops...

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A group of adult siblings are painting and redecorating their mom's apartment while she is on vacation. There is good-natured teasing and reminiscing, spurred on by the reading of an old journal kept by their mother. Her writings describe a number of events, both fun and more poignant, which paint a wonderful picture of how families are supposed to work. Even her entry about bringing home a new mattress on top of the old station wagon shows ho...

An extended half hour sketch. A young couple, Renee and Kurt, decide to host this year's extended family Christmas celebration. They have an infant son, and they are hoping to put in place some meaningful Christmas traditions. Renee would like to have the Christmas story read at some point during the night. Kurt would like to have some substantive conversations with members of the family. By the end of the night, the Christmas story has not be...

Karen comes home from the grocery store loaded down with bags of groceries. "Buy one, get one free, " she explains to her husband Rob. She's actually planning to give away half of the groceries to her sister's family, who has had a spell of bad luck. Just then she receives a phone call, saying she has won a minivan in a local contest. As she and Rob get excited, she realizes the people who really need it are her sister, Kris, and her family. R...

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In this lighthearted sketch, a hand, a foot, and a mouth learn the value of working together. The hand and foot get tired of the mouth talking all the time, so they tie him up and gag him. Their relief is soon tempered, however, by the onset of fatigue and exhaustion. When the hand and foot want to eat a pizza at the end of their day, they realize they need the mouth to do it. That's also why they're so beat?without the mouth, they haven't eat...

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This reference text provides detailed information on the world's 2000 largest and most influential companies. Each entry contains details such as: company's legal name, mailing address, ownership, sales and market value, stock index, and principal subsidiaries. Each two-to-four page entry is detailed with facts gathered from popular magazines, academic periodicals, books, annual reports and the archives of the companies themselves. Information...