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Media violence and children's aggression: evidence and debate

Media has a powerful impact on society. Media alters our buying habits, controls our tastes, incites our feelings against or for one or the other group or country, it is a powerful weapon indeed.

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Marijuana legalization as economic and criminal justice policy

Legalize Marijuana Now! Today, the United States enjoys the dubious distinction of incarcerating more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation on earth.

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The Affordable Care Act and persistent restrictions in American health care

Although the publicity surrounding the issue has been considerable and made to look like it is a recent problem facing the nation, the problem, in reality, has been on the horizon for nearly a century.

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Family trauma and complicity in Rosellen Brown's Before and After

Rosellen Brown's novel Before and After deals with the traumatic reverberations of a possible murder in a small town, and especially on the family of the primary suspect.

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Self-assessment of leadership potential using multiple intelligence measures

I scored evenly on all of the types of intelligence measured by this self-assessment: logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and musical. This indicates that I am a well-rounded person with the ability to work in multiple environments on different tasks.

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Swift's satirical rhetoric in A Modest Proposal and pseudo-scientific argumentation

Jonathan Swift's satirical work A Modest Proposal is particularly successful at lambasting careless attitudes towards the poor because Swift's proposal that poor children be sold as food for the upper classes is rendered in the language of pseudo-scientific argument and economics.

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Government taxation of smokers and healthcare cost responsibility

Instead, much of the money is being spent on other pork-barrel projects. It is time that the government realize that prohibition did not work in the 1920s and 1930s and it will not work any better in the 21st century.

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The Lizzie Borden trial and 1890s American society

And gave her mother forty whacks. At one point or another, every schoolchild typically hears this small rhyme scheme, whether to accompany a hot-scotch match or as a joke towards the macabre.

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Monsanto's political influence and lobbying strategies

Monsanto. The name alone makes millions cringe. How can a company named after a middle-aged homemaker become so controversial?

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Galileo's support for the Copernican hypothesis and his conflict with the Catholic Church

Galileo was certainly one of the most formative and important figures in the history of science -- among the inventions and contributions to science attributable to him are the refinement of lens-grinding and telescope making technologies as well as the creation of the scientific method in any real…

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