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Colonialism in The Tempest and Season of Migration to the North

Both William Shakespeare's play The Tempest and Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North deal with the cultural tensions arising as a result of colonialism, albeit in different historical moments and from different sides of the colonizer-colonized relationship.

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Mollie Orshansky's poverty level definition and its modern limitations

Bell, Carolyn Shaw. (1995). What is Poverty? The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 54(2) 161-173.

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Management by objectives misalignment in IT services firm performance

The lack of congruity between the strategic plans and direction of the IT services firm on the one hand and the structure of its Management by Objectives (MBO) program on the other is causing a major disconnect in overall company performance.

~14 min read

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Faults, folds, and rock formations in earth science

Of course, electronic voting system has its downside too such as the total uselessness of the system in the event of a major power blackout and loss of backup power supply.

~26 min read

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Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" and global governance discourse analysis

Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" is less a discussion of global governance and more a discussion about the discussion -- a Foucauldian analysis that attempts to be circumspect by first rooting out the causes of the discussion.

~7 min read

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Mbuti hunting and subsistence practices in the Ituri forest

The Mbuti society of central Africa is a sub-category of an ethnic group known to Westerners as "African Pygmies." Since the colonization of Africa by Europeans several centuries ago, the Pygmies have taken root in the Western imagination as a mysterious tribe of tiny, uncivilized forest-dwellers.

~13 min read

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Goatse Security's exposure of the Apple iPad AT&T breach

Discuss Goatse Security firm possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T's Website.

~10 min read

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Foucault and Derrida in Beckett's The Unnamable

The narrator of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable exists in a liminal space, neither wholly real nor non-existent, and he represents the kind of unsubjectified consciousness that is the ideal citizen of Michel Foucault's theoretical panopticon.

~25 min read

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David Foster Wallace's exploration of social justice in Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest was released in 1996 it was greeted with great fanfare and critical acclaim. It confirmed what many literary critics and scholars had already suspected, that the book's young and precocious author was the preeminent writer of his generation.

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Technology and robotics in assisted living facilities for seniors

Humanity today has made great progress in terms of not only computer and communication technology, but also in terms of biomedical technology. For this reason, many people today live much longer than was the case a century ago, or even as recently as 50 years ago.

~11 min read

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