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British reluctance to adopt the euro: political and economic factors

This work will discuss the reluctance of the British to join the EU and will relate the historical phase of the project with an extensive focus on the theoretical aspect. This issue will be addressed from the intergovernmental and liberal intergovernmental perspectives.

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Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete and everyday sound transformation

Pierre Schaeffer succeeded far beyond his expectations in that he not only was able to conceal the object sources of his musical compositions from the listener but simultaneously for a time, concealed the very primitive base of his musical compositions from other composers who in that period…

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Poetic themes and intellectual voices in American female writers before 1865

Long before Feminism was established as a movement in literature and the arts in general, America produced quite a few brilliant female writers who went before their time and demonstrated that women have a voice and can express themselves intellectually on a par with men.

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Varying cultural perspectives on female genital cutting in Africa

Female circumcision, common in many African nations, is commonly associated with many assumptions and stereotypes.

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David Roediger's "The Wages of Whiteness": racism and working class identity

In the Wages of Whiteness, the author, Roediger, explores the relationship between the growth of America's working classes and the social construction of prejudice behaviors or racism (Roediger, 2007).

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Shakespeare's critique of slavery through Shylock in The merchant of Venice

Merchant of Venice is a framework for expressing Shakespeare's anti-slavery sentiments in a most vivid and gruesome way.

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Language choice and cultural identity in African literature: Achebe and Ngugi

When authors are relating the African experience, must they write the original book in the native language? Does this add to the experience? Better yet, does writing it in English lose its cultural identity?

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David Hume's theory of causality and empiricist philosophy

Philosopher, historian, and economist David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was born in Scotland (Penelhum, 1993). He was seen to be a very prominent figure in history both in the Scottish enlightenment and in Western philosophy.

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Richard Brookhiser's moral biography of George Washington's character

Richard Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer, historian and a senior editor at National Review and columnist for the New York Observer.

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Neanderthal and early human stone tool assemblages and their functions

Stone tools from the time of the Neanderthals, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, Africa (called the "Middle Stone Age") and the Near East, dating from about 300,000 years to about 40,000 years ago have survived in great quantities and now serve as the major means of determining hominin activities.

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