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The Cuban Revolution and United States Cold War intervention

Nationalism, economic, social, political. The Cuban Revolution can be considered to be one of the most important events that took place in Latin America during the Cold War.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Health and Human Services

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign and antipoverty efforts

Approximately 37 million Americans, (12.6% of the population) live in poverty (U.S. Census, 2006); 17.1% of American children are poor; 10.1% of the elderly are poor; 21.8% of Latino children and 24.9% of African-American children are poor. (Wu, et al., 2007).

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John Winthrop's fear of Anne Hutchinson's challenge to authority

John Winthrop's reasons for wanting to rid Boston of Anne Hutchison were more than political. Winthrop felt his power being challenged by Anne Hutchinson, and feared losing control, personally and communally.

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Racial disparities in sentencing: evidence from research

INTRODUCTION recent Pew Center Report published in 2007 relates that presently one in every one hundred adults in America is in prison. Moreover, one in every fifteen black men in America is in a U.S. prison.

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Billy Budd as Christian allegory: injustice and moral responsibility

Who is responsible for Billy Budd's death? Discuss how Captain Vere, Claggart and Billy himself all contribute to Billy's downfall.

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Weber's bureaucratic model applied to the Roman Catholic Church

Max Weber wrote extensively about the development of the modern civil service and the capitalist bureaucracies that arose as the result of industrialization. Weber believed that these hierarchies were partially due to the cultural shifts created by the ideology of the Protestant Revolution.

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Human values expressed through the Statue of Liberty and religious institutions

When we talk about human values, we are talking about that which drives human beings towards good; or, conversely, in the absence of values, evil. Values, ethics, are what drive human beings to aspire to greater levels of understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

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Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence and workplace productivity development

The importance and popularity of Daniel Goleman's book, Working with Emotional Intelligence, is indicative of the changing workplace over the last century.

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Hubris, fate, and selfhood in Aeschylus' Agamemnon

The characters in Aeschylus' play Agamemnon act with impunity and hubris. Although besieged by a terrible war in Troy, the Greeks do not maintain their position of power with compassion or foresight.

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