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Luke's portrayal of Jesus through the Gospel narrative

Jesus" is a question that is both straight forward and at the same time ambiguous. On the one hand, everybody knows who Jesus was. Simply, he is whom Christians believe to be the Son of God and who Jews and Muslims believe to be a prophet of God.

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Robert Putnam's theory of social capital and civic decline

Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam offers an interesting image of how the idea of social capital applies in the modern world and how people are becoming more isolated so that the idea of democracy is under attack, given that people have fewer and fewer community associations and community activities…

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Contraceptive access policy at King Middle School in Portland, Maine

Confidential Condom and Birth Control Pills for Middle School Students? The argument put forward in this paper is that today's teenager, whether in senior high school or middle school, should be given access to confidential health care - e.g., condoms and prescription birth control - in order to…

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Environmental attitudes in developed and developing countries

The objective of this work is to examine the differences in attitudes towards the environment in the developed and developing world.

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Physicists' moral conflict during the Manhattan Project development

The physicists instrumental in the design and development of the nuclear atomic bomb are certain to have held a certain level of pride in their accomplishment however it is just as certain that there must have been regret as well due to the potential for destruction, death and war that had been…

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Globalization and institutional failure in the Philippines

Globalization is that ephemeral buzzword thrown around to describe a myriad of historical processes that are, in reality, incredibly hard to pin down.

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The green movement's origins, evolution, and future in a consumer society

Green Here to Stay? The "Green Movement" encompasses the ideology of ecology, conservation, environmental concerns, the feminist movement, and peace movement. If it sounds like the hippies of the 1960s grown up, it is probably at least partially true.

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Accountability and internal controls in the New York State Public Authority Accountability Act

For far too long public authorities have operated behind closed doors without any real oversight or accountability...." The result of public authorities operating behind closed doors without: "real oversight or accountability," according to Richard L.

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The history and development of concrete construction

The history of concrete goes back about twelve million years according to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (www.matse1.mse.uiuc.edu).What happened back then was that limestone and oil shale mixed to create a "spontaneous…

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Racial disparities in the application of capital punishment

Arguments have raged for decades about the use of capital punishment in the United States, with some holding that there is a need for society to express its disapproval for certain acts by ending the life of the convicted person, while others see this as an act outside the boundaries of what a…

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