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David Lewis's modal realism and the plurality of possible worlds

Modal realism, as explicated by David Lewis in his work on the Plurality of Worlds, concerns the infinity of possibilities. On Lewis's view, there are infinite possibilities of worlds, where an infinite number of individuals are living an infinite amount of lives.

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Electronic medical records and the reduction of medical errors

Electronic Medical Records: Can they Reduce Medical Errors? The phenemon of medical errors is not a new one, but it is one that has drawn quite a bit of attention in recent years. It is thought that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die every year due to some type of medical error.

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Kantian ethics and decision-making in business management

Deidre McCloskey, the Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). [HB501 M55341 2006 -- Grad]

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Language acquisition and critical analysis of the Genie case study

Scientists are inquisitive because they ask all the important questions (what, when, where, and why; they are persistent (they never quit trying to figure things out); they are explorative (they employ the scientific approach to examine a problem and then they design experiments to test whether…

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Emotional and physical burdens in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

The Things They Carried is an emotional narrative about several American soldiers serving together in the Vietnam War. The story is told to the reader in the second person, yet the reader can identify with each soldier as if he was telling the story himself.

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Ishmael Beah's transformation from child to soldier in Sierra Leone

In January of 2007, the New York Times ran an excerpt of Ishmael Beah's memoir of life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. The excerpt is a shocking, heart-wrenching account of a boy's journey from carefree child to cold-blooded killer, and the difficult path to redemption that followed.

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Political reform and storytelling in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe's fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah, was first published in 1987, some fifteen years after his fourth novel, A Man of the People. In Anthills of the Savannah, Achebe states his abhorrence of any theory of radical transformation of society.

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Gender interaction and bias in Grade 5 classroom action research

The thematic concern I am considering is gender issues among boys and girls in Grade 5. This is a stage of growth during which children become aware of each other as creatures that differ much more in terms of gender than they had believed up to this time.

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Storytelling as coping mechanism in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried, while presented as such, is not a true war story but a post-war story.

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Modernist technique and psychological fragmentation in Heart of Darkness

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the modern features which can be found in Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness." The first part of the paper will explain what the modernist features are, what led to their creation and how they impacted literary writing.

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