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Appiah's case for contamination and the Secure Fence Act

President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act into law on October 26, 2006. This policy provides for the construction of a border fence along the United State's southern border with Mexico, beefs up security and enforcement along the border, and allows "guest" workers and citizenship for illegal…

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Why the Scientific Revolution couldn't occur in China

Ethno- or cultural-centricity can take many forms, and it is not simply in the realms studied by the "soft sciences" -- sociology, psychology, and other investigations of human action, motivation, and community -- that problems and biases from such thinking emerge.

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Lamott and Goldberg's advice for college writers on drafting and specificity

Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts" and Natalie Goldberg's "Be Specific" provide complementary advice on the difficulties of the writing process and the need to find one's own unique voice.

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The necessity and benefits of urgent care centers in community healthcare

As humans we are exposed to various illnesses throughout our lives, some more severe than others. Due to this, we are constantly in need of doctors, nurses, hospital and other health related centers.

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Wayne Booth's concept of rhetorical balance in effective writing

Wayne Booth's article entitled, "The Rhetorical Stance" provides a discussion and analysis of the role that rhetoric plays in allowing writers, students, academicians -- everybody -- to create a "polemic, unpretentious, stimulating, organized, convincing" compositions and arguments (25).

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Gould's defense of Darwin's theory of natural selection

Darwin's Untimely Burial" by Stephen J. Gould. The topic concerns Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection as explicated by Stephen J. Gould in his book, Ever Since Darwin.

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Bruce Catton's block method in "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,' author Bruce Catton uses the block method to make his point.

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John Locke's empiricism and the shift from democratic to aristocratic ideals

The Restoration of the monarchy in Great Britain of Charles II first oversaw the development of a new creative ferment and interest in the sciences and political economy in the minds of England's greatest writers.

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Foucault's panopticism and institutional power distribution mechanisms

Panopticism by Michel Foucault addresses many topics in a brief space-Foucault examines subjects from the balance of power in medieval society to methods of law enforcement in modern times.

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Walter Benjamin's theory of aura in mechanical reproduction

Reproduction of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In the first part of the paper, the explanation will be provided and in the second part, arguments given by the other authors will be provided.

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