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Victoria's 2010 floods: damage and environmental recovery

The State of Victoria in Australia suffered serious flooding in the month of September, 2010, causing "hundreds of millions of dollars in lost crops," according to the Age newspaper report.

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FEMA's full-scale exercise design and implementation procedures

The American Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a series of specific and general exercises including the full-scale exercise. A full-scale exercise is a major activity that takes place on location in the most realistic setting possible.

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Moral compass and ethical reasoning in religious and secular frameworks

What moral compass do you use: Kohlberg's Moral Reasoning, a professional Code of Ethics, or God's word? The most important moral guidance in my life are God's principles more so than their literal interpretations by man.

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Appearance and reality in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare's play a Midsummer Night's Dream revolves around the confusion between appearance and reality. There is a play-within -- a play, the presence of non-human entities and a fairy kingdom, and the presence of magical potions that create a dreamlike reality.

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Hidden propaganda in Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump

On the surface, Robert Zemeckis's 1994 film Forrest Gump is simply a tale of a simple man who lives an extraordinary American life. The story is heart-warming and at times heart-wrenching but does not appear to have any overt political overtones.

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John Lewis's rhetorical techniques in "Never Knowingly Undersold"

John Lewis uses highly effective rhetorical techniques to convey their "lifetime commitment to you." Although the video does depict a specific ethnic demographic (heterosexual and white), and includes some gender gaffes (using the song by Billy Joel that compares a woman to a child), the marketing…

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Women's reproductive value and dehumanization in The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood manages to combine two opposing themes into a single motif. What I mean by this is that the importance of women's role in the universe as the only gender able to bear children is highly glorified.

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The Rubik's Cube and mathematical problem-solving passion

Rubik's Cube first came to market in the 1980s, it was sold as a toy. The bright colors and seeming simplicity of the cube made it accessible to kids and adults alike.

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Ergonomic problems and injuries caused by computer use

Since the late 1990s, computer use has increased tremendously in virtually all realms of society. Modern business organizations rely extensively on computer and information technology (it) systems.

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The DREAM Act's effects on educational access for undocumented Latino students

As the United States continues to prosecute its Global War on Terrorism, the issue of illegal immigration continues to pervade the daily news and American consciousness.

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