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The rise and measurement of American divorce rates through the twentieth century

In the 1950s when many marriages were starting out in the suburbs after World War II, the divorce rate was rising, but not a major concern. Flash forward ten years to the 1960s, and that dramatically changed.

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Gaius, Titius, and the Conditioners in C.S. Lewis

There was a difference between Gaius and Titius (Alex King and Martin Ketley) and the Conditioners. Gaius and Titius believed that our statements were based on what we were feeling at the time and not based on fact.

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Libertarian critique of the welfare state and governmental control

Libertarianism as both a political movement and an ideology has shown itself to be as much an American historical byproduct as the tattered semantic heir to America's true and original political philosophy.

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Government discrimination against same-sex marriage and legal rights

The authorities are reluctant to accept that the concept of marriage can be applied when two persons of the same biological sex want to. Also, issues related to same-sex marriages are owed to various other factors, such as tradition and religion.

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Marketing strategy for Kellogg's Fruit Loops Breakfast Bar

The Ready-to-Eat cereal market has proven to be increasingly resilient to the recession; in fact it has grown by 2% a year even in the midst of the economic downturn (Emrich, 2008). The Fruit Loops brand is highly respected and has a very high level of customer loyalty associated with it.

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Women's changing roles in American society during the Great Depression

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the role of the woman in the American society during the period of the Great Depression. In order to support the discussion we will be analyzing John Steinbeck's novel "The grapes of wrath."

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Capital punishment from British common law to modern abolition movements

Capital punishment in the United States originated and was based primarily upon British common law. Both America's and Europe's systems utilized personal retribution as the main rationale for using capital punishment ("America's Tug of War over Sanctioned Death," 2009).

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Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and the farm labor movement of the 1930s

Like Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads, Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath (1939) depicts a certain moment in American farm labor.

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Technical filmmaking and performance in Singin' in the Rain

Directed by two dancers, Singin' in the Rain is simultaneously a celebration of dance and cinema. It grounds its thematic interests in film as a hybrid medium somewhere between sound and image (figured as feeling and illusionism) squarely in a technical fixation on performance.

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George Mason's management of Paula Whisler's workplace tardiness problem

Tim Hicks (2010) notes that problems are an inherent element in the workplace situation. The problem is therefore not so much that there are problems, but rather the way in which managers handle -- or fail to handle -- these problems.

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