The Shifting Rhetoric of Insurance Denial

The Role of Bicultural Art Experience in Intercultural Education ‎(Case study: 9 Years Old Brazilian Children)‎

The objective of this research is study the role of intercultural education through bicultural art experience for improving intercultural competence. For this, a phenomenological qualitative study designed aimed to introduce different aspects of Persian culture among 9 years old Brazilian children. It contained four steps: making interest, comparing two cultures, experiencing bicultural art cre...

The Rhetoric Hits the Road: State Challenges to the Affordable Care Act Implementation

What is it about health reform—about the particular exercise of federal power to compel the purchase of health insurance by individuals 1 —that has sparked such concerted objection from states? Congress has reached deeply into areas of traditional state authority on other occasions in recent memory, 2 without similarly provoking a majority of states to file federal lawsuits or engage in a multi...

Misdiagnosis. Behind the rhetoric of the malpractice insurance "crisis".

Predictive Analytics

In today's economic climate where budget reductions are common, executives are under pressure to deliver profitable growth. Business leaders must identify and implement the critical items that will enable the enterprise to remain competitive. Methods and techniques long utilized in the actuarial department are being leveraged to improve many areas of the insurance operation. Will these methods ...

Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...