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Illness narratives and memory in Away from Her

The stories that ill people often tell come out of their bodies. The body puts into action the need for fresh stories when its illness disturbs the old stories. The body, whether still diseased or recovered, is at the same time reason, theme, and tool of whatever new stories are told.

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The greed-grievance debate and causes of civil wars

Greed -- grievance debate" is one of the most interesting debates surrounding the causes and eventually the actual development of civil wars especially in countries such as the ones of the African continent.

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Myne Owne Ground: free blacks in seventeenth-century Virginia

As authors and historians T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes point out in the introduction to heir text Myne Owne Ground, slavery had existed in some form or other for at least three thousand years prior to the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent, "receiving philosophical justification…

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Personality judgments based on offices and bedrooms

The authors, Samuel D. Gosling, Sei Jin Ko, Thomas Mannarelli and Margaret E. Morris are professors in psychology and organizational behavior at various universities.

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Racial triangulation and negotiation in American race relations

Throughout American history race relations have been a constant challenge, as there is the struggle between the dominate White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) class and other racial groups.

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Afrocentric and multicultural approaches to biblical interpretation

The problematics of the Afrocentric or African orientated approach to an understanding of religious and biblical texts is a cause for concern among many theologians and historians.

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Graphic design in nineteenth-century Mexican pamphlets and modern websites

The modern world is full of visual information, to the point that it is almost impossible to avoid being bombarded with text and other meaning-laden symbols -- often in the form of advertisements -- no matter where one looks.

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The myth of the stable 1950s American family

The 1950s are often depicted as a time where the American family was solid, clearly defined and well-functioning unit that formed the basis of a strong and thriving culture and society stepping cheerfully out of the previous decades of Depression and war and looking with bright eyes towards the…

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Freud's psychoanalytic theory and object relations development

Psychopathology might be defined as the inability of the adult human being to function within his or her social world. Some internal element restrains the ability of such a person to effectively live a productive and happy life.

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Priam and Achilles: divine cooperation and paradigm shift in Book 24

In Homer's Iliad, the meeting between Priam and Achilles in Book 24 can be seen as the epitome of the paradigm of change that functions throughout the narrative. There are two platforms of change: one on the divine level and the other on the human level.

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