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Environmental ethics, capitalism, and political inaction in developing nations

It is an awe-inspiring natural world that humans have evolved into and inherited. In it, through it, and notwithstanding its fragile underpinnings, for better or for worse (more on the "worse" side than the "better") humans have carved out cities, countries, societies and standards of living.

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CardioCenter: A cardiac catheterization lab business proposal

This business plan outlines the structure, goals and financial aspects of creating a new cardiac catheterization lab and heart treatment center in central Florida. It will be called "CardioCenter," and extend its message of expert urgent cardiac care within a 25-mile radius.

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Economic growth strategies across five Middle Eastern countries

Economic Strategies in the Middle East: What Emerging Strategy Is Winning? This paper analyzes the drivers of economic growth in five Middle Eastern countries: Israel, Qatar, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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Stephen Colbert's satirical persona and television semiotics on the Colbert Report

Colbert Report has been on the air a little less than two years. The program was an immediate hit, following the Daily Show on Comedy Central and carrying the pretense of the Daily Show into a new realm.

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HIV and STD prevention interventions for adolescents and youth

Teenage sex has been viewed as a social problem for some time, but the spread of HIV / AIDS in society has increased fears of what can happen if young people have unprotected sex.

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Vivekananda's rhetorical strategy at the World's Parliament of Religions

Vivekananda used in his major address to the World's Parliament of Religions to convince the audience that the Vedas contained truths of science as well as religion was to make a statement characterizing Neo-Hindu thought, and then cite a parallel statement from the world of science.

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Dogs in animal-assisted therapy: benefits and implementation

When a patient is in a hospital room full of high tech equipment with tubes, wires, bleeping monitors, alarms, and life-support equipment, it can be very depressing. An animal can bring warmth to the atmosphere and relate to the patient as a human being.

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Tennyson's Ulysses poems and Homer's heroic legacy

Two poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson were derived from Homer, concerning different periods in the life of Ulysses (or Odysseus, in the Greek).

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Baseball's role in American culture, film, and national identity

America's Pastime: The Importance of Baseball to United States Life and Culture: in Film, Society, and in Everyday Life That now timeworn clich?, 'baseball is as American as apple pie' may in fact nowadays ring (and actually be) less true than in past years; notwithstanding the views (of perhaps…

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Socio-economic status and race impacts on children's educational outcomes

To explore this issue, the following qualitative data collection approaches are used: (1) interview studies (2) participant observation, and (3) historical review.

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