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Materialism and redemption in Tolstoy and Chekhov

This is the case in Leo Tolstoy's story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," considering that the central character, Pahom, believes that happiness is equivalent to material wealth.

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The prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration in America

There are over two million people incarcerated in the United States today, this comes out to fifteen prisoners for every 100,000 persons (Pager, 2003, p. 937). This is a 600% increase since the 1970s and gives the country the highest internment rate on the planet.

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How the Internet has destroyed modern moral values

The technological era that we as a society have entered has completely altered the way that morality and proper behavior is viewed and expressed. Before the Internet was as freely used as it is now, there was more control as to what children and teenagers had access to.

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Ideological criticism of bisexual and transgender representation in The L Word

Showtime's drama series the L Word, which ran from 2004 to 2009, features a cast of lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered characters, and has been lauded for its representations of non-heterosexual individuals and relationships.

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Historiographical approaches to the First Opium War

The historical discussion of the First Anglo-Chinese War (frequently referred to as the First Opium War) included a variety of competing perspectives even as the war was still being fought, because either side viewed the war in entirely different contexts.

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Australian "One Nation" party and right-wing political resistance to multiculturalism

The purpose of this work is the explore the forms of resistance in the politics of the extreme right, particularly those in Australia and how globalization is threatening those less fortunate and the necessity to protect themselves is propelling a new dimension of reality for the elite if the…

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Examining Pope's paradox: admiration for what we don't understand

There are a great many things that arouse admiration in this world of ours. Some of these things such as a creation of nature, a work of breathtaking art, scientific breakthroughs that benefit human kind, and acts of bravery are, without doubt, worthy of the admiration and the sentiment that they…

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Virginia Woolf's experimental writing and stream of consciousness technique

Virginia Woolf is considered to be one of the most influential writers of her time because of her experimental style and modern approach to writing. Many of Woolf's pieces reflect a unique perspective, which allow her to explore areas such as stream of consciousness writing and feminist views.

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Mill and Taylor's competing concepts of positive and negative liberty

Two concepts of liberty': J. S Mill's emphasis on individualism as liberty, and Charles Taylor's classification of the exercise concept and action as forms of liberty

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Locke and Hume's moral philosophy and political theory

The Enlightenment was a time when man, stepping out of his shackles, began to use his rational facilities and pulled himself out of the medieval pits of mysticism and in the process shoved aside the state and church authorities of the day.

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