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Canada's need for an independent foreign intelligence agency

At the present time, Canada, an independent sovereign nation, has no foreign intelligence agency.

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Free will and fate in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

The question of free will vs. fate has puzzled the human race for ages and yet, there appears to be no single definite answer to it. What is more dominant, why does man have free will when he is tied down to the invincible force of fate?

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Computer-based testing and competency-based learning in higher education

There is push of the higher education towards novel instruction delivery models by the advent of the internet. This leads to the student being the focus of the learning process and the new models results into the creation of instructions which are tailor made for the student delivery.

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Rhetorical analysis of President Bush's January 1991 Gulf War speech

To paraphrase John Donne, no speech is an island. And this is especially true of the best speeches, for while each speech is addressed to a specific audience and is a response to a particular moment in history, it is also an echo of other speeches made in similar and sometimes dissimilar times.

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Advanced persistent threats in cybersecurity: Chinese government APT operations

Today, APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat, describes cyber attacks, which are produced by organized teams of individuals, whom have extremely in-depth resources. These teams of individuals have highly advanced technological and database penetration skills and they target specific profiles.

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Capital punishment's failure as a crime deterrent in the United States

In fact, the U.S. is the only Western nation that practices capital punishment. Although the Supreme Court outlawed it in 1972 on the premise that it was unconstitutional, they changed their position in 1976, and the death penalty was re-instituted.

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Without moral behavior, community is impossible in Sinclair's The Jungle

Such is the message Upton Sinclair presents to readers in his novel, The Jungle. Throughout the novel the Sinclair shows immoral behavior's destruction of the very fabric of a functioning society.

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Global airline industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces

The past decade has been a challenging one for the global airline industry. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 sent the industry into a downturn in the first half of the decade, while the second half of the decade saw skyrocketing jet fuel costs and economic downturn send passenger numbers…

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Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet as a renaissance man

If Shakespeare's ability at characterization is one of the hallmarks which have made him an enduring power in English literature, and Hamlet is among his most well-loved artistic works, centered by one of his most complex characters, then this essay delves into a deep and often murky water.

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Spain's unique culture: daily schedules, meals, and traditions

Spain has a long and diversified history that includes prehistory, the Romans, the Visigoths and Roman Catholicism, among others.

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