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Drug legalization's economic and social policy implications

The government creates laws and regulations in which officials see are suitable for citizens to abide by. The formation of such official customs serves to protect the interests of the people, state, and government.

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Spiegelman's Maus and the graphic novel canon

Upon examination of the evolution of the Graphic Novel, one discovers that amusing drawings have been around forever. But the rise of the newspaper industry in the late nineteenth century was the force that brought comics into everyday American households.

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Ha Jin's *Waiting*: Cultural Revolution and gender roles in Mao's China

Waiting by Ha Jin was published in 1999. This is a tale of a love triangle in China during the Cultural Revolution. Lin Kong, a military doctor, was forced into marriage by his parents in 1962.

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Tracking and detecting homegrown terrorism in the United States

Although most of the media focus on tracking terrorism tends to centers on threats that come from abroad, it is important to note how many recent, public incidents of terrorists involved Western-educated men.

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Assessing HIV diagnosis reporting completeness using capture-recapture methods

Hall, Irene H., Ruiguang Song, John E. Gerstle III, & Lisa M. Lee (2006). Assessing the completeness of reporting of human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses in 2002 -- 2003: Capture-recapture methods. 164 (4): 391. Retrieved June 17, 2010 at http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/164/4/391

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs in criminal justice

Abraham Maslow helped establish the field of humanistic psychology in the middle of the 20th century (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2008).

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Workplace violence against nurses: causes, prevention, and health care impact

Nurses often work under high-stress conditions. They deal with people who are sick and in pain. Physical and mental illnesses, the side effects of medications, and other factors can compromise a patient's judgment and ability to control his or her own actions.

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Moral absolutism, relativism, and objectivism in medical ethics

Compare and contrast the different types of moral reasoning (moral absolutism, moral objectivism, etc.). What are the benefits and burdens of each? Which is closest to your own view of morality and why?

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Administrative ethics in postmodern society and diverse bureaucracies

Cooper, Terry L. (2006). The responsible administrator. Jossey-Bass. Public administration in modern and postmodern society: The context of administrative ethics

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Paul's encounter with John the Baptist's disciples in Acts 19:1-7

Two Baptism or the Relationship of Jesus and John the Baptist.

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