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Love and transformation in The Secret Life of Bees and The Feast of Love

Both the Secret Life of Bees and Feast of Love explore the multiple manifestations of love. Whereas Feast of Love focuses more on romantic love, the Secret Life of Bees addresses all kinds of love, including the love of self, God, and family members.

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Children's psychological and academic responses to parental divorce

Children Respond When Their Parents Divorce? What are the ramifications for children whose parents divorce? It is a fact that about fifty percent of marriages fail -- but what happens to the children from those families? How do they respond in the years that follow the divorce?

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Billy Lee Brammer's The Gay Place and Texas political culture

"It begins...in an ancient backwash of old dead seas and lambent estuaries, around which rise cypress and cedar and pine thickets hung with spiked vines and the cheerless festoons of Spanish moss," (p. 3).

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Sustainability classifications in engineering: discipline and approach

Sustainability classifications in engineering: discipline and approach," the author sifts through the plethora of definitions, theories, and political viewpoints in relation to the concept of sustainability.

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The alien hypothesis and Egyptian pyramid construction theories

The Egyptian pyramids at Giza are among the most perplexing monuments on the planet. As with the ziggurats and the pyramids of ancient Central America, the Giza structures seem practically impossible to construct without modern machinery.

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Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil": transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism

The philosophy of Transcendentalism, as espoused by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, "led to an optimistic emphasis on individualism and the value of the individual over society" (Brulatour 1999).

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Facebook privacy violations and cyberbullying in schools

Many will agree when I say that Facebook has become, if not the greatest, then definitely one of the greatest communication tools. It helps us stay connected not only to the friends and family that are far away, but also to the people that live next door to us.

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Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and classification in clinical practice

Hodgkin's lymphoma is the cancerous proliferation of a patient's lymphoid cells. The presence of Reed-Sternberg cells is a necessary precondition of the diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, although R-S cells are identified with other disorders.

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Rousseau's concept of civil society and modern slavery

When Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the Origin of Civil Society, Europe was becoming enmeshed with its colonial enterprises. Ironically, this was also the time when Enlightenment philosophy and theory spread throughout Europe.

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The constitutional right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut

Nowhere in the Constitution are Americans guaranteed a right to privacy, though many people assume that a right to privacy is something protected by the Constitution. In fact, many people believe that the right to privacy is found in the Fourth Amendment.

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