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Hilde Hein's analysis of spirituality, gender, and the spirit-matter dichotomy

Liberating Philosophy: Perspectives on Hilde Hein's View Pertaining To Spirituality And Gender One of the most significant questions that haunt the field of Philosophy is that of the spiritual and the material.

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Improving academic performance through earlier bedtime achievement

Overview- One of the unfortunate things about collegiate life is the combination of work, school, social, and family pressures that all need to be squeezed into a day.

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Hurricane Katrina's impact on race, class, and disaster response

Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating storms to hit the U.S. coast, overwhelmed the city of New Orleans, leaving it underwater with nearly two thousand of its citizens dead. The storm resulted in a failure of the levees, which had major design flaws and lacked appropriate maintenance.

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Lillian Wald: founder of public health nursing in America

Lillian Wald was born into a family of six in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 10, 1867. Her parents had come to America from Europe long before Lillian was born, in hopes of living out the American Dream.

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Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes

At the time it was published, "A Study in Scarlet" did not actually caught the public's attention, although it had made it clear that the character of Sherlock Holmes would become a hallmark in the world of crime fiction in the years to follow.

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Native American technology and civilizations before European colonization

Stasis: It is still commonly believed that technology in America began or was introduced by Europeans after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

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Population and communications systems in the United States and Panama

The current era is known as the Information Age with good reason; the creation and the communication of data and information can now occur on a scale unimaginable even in the first half of the twentieth century.

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The digital divide: causes, consequences, and potential solutions

New media technologies have driven technological innovation and economic change in the past couple of decades. There are, however, costs associated with adopting new media in the form of both capital and time.

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Childhood innocence and revolutionary disillusionment in Persepolis

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane's character gives the reader a child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the Iranian Revolution so that the reader learns along with her the history of Iran and of her family.

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Burke and the Sophists: comparing ancient and modern rhetoric

Approaches to rhetoric, which can be broadly defined as the science -- or perhaps quasi-art -- of how ideas, words, and/or actions are communicated and/or inspired in human beings, are highly varied and can be enormously complex.

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