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The risks of authenticity: resisting social pressure to discover your true self

STATEMENT 1: At a recent Commencement Mass, LMU's former President, Fr. Robert Lawton, S.J. said: So what is the answer to this deep insecurity we all feel? The answer, I think, is to embrace the adventure of becoming deeply, and fully, ourselves. This is what God is really calling us to.

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The healing hospital paradigm: faith, compassion, and patient care

Faith, hope and emotional support are all key predictors of health outcomes. In addition to treatment, these features help provide the patient with the will and psychological fortitude to face illness, pain or disability.

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Anti-Semitism's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace

Global anti-Semitism is escalating at an alarming rate (Spencer 2010). While there are many deep-rooted, impassioned conflicts between Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews, the question remains: to what degree can today's continued unrest being attributed to rampant anti-Semitism, both in Palestine…

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Welfare receipt among white Americans: demographics and duration

It is a common assumption that more African-Americans are on welfare than any other race. We tend to believe this because of the stereotypes we see in the media. The truth of the matter is that more whites are welfare recipients than African-Americans.

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The individual's sense of worthiness in Kafka's Metamorphosis

The Individual's Sense of Worthiness and the (Mal)Formation of Identity in Kafka's Metamorphosis Much of literature in the modern era, from the dawn of industrialization onward, is concerned with the nature of man's identity within the framework of modern society.

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Medical marijuana legalization and therapeutic efficacy in patient treatment

There is presently much controversy regarding the topic of Medical Marijuana, given that numerous people cannot detach themselves from employing a traditional perspective concerning the matter-considering that the substance has little to no medicinal attributes and that it is actually a way of…

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Economics of establishing a fuel-producing base on Mars

Human beings have long since been fascinated with the stars. Myths tell of their origin. Legends tell of their destinies. So it's no surprise that we are on the very edge of a breakthrough in the exploration of the Final Frontier as Gene Roddenberry's Captan Picard of Star Trek called it.

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Art Spiegelman's Maus: Holocaust narrative in graphic novel form

Because of its comic book form, Art Spiegelman's Maus I and II had the challenge of having the world take seriously the story of a troubled father and son as well as the devastation of the Holocaust.

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Middle Eastern civilization before and during the rise of Islam

The era before the rise of Islam, the first six centuries of the Common Era, were set forth due to the development of major events. One of the biggest and important of these events is the establishment and rise of Christianity.

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Healthcare costs and federal budget deficits in America

Health care is viewed by some as the biggest point of crisis in the federal budget. Americans currently spends $2.2 trillion on health care every year and this cost is expected to rise to over $4 trillion by 2017 at current estimated rates of growth.

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