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Racial disproportionality in NSW child welfare services

NSW Government Human Community Services is a comprehensive human services organization that provides an array of services that focuses on enhancing the physical and mental well-being of its community residence

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Class struggle in Allende's The House of Spirits

Subtext, Context, and Other Historical Reflections: Class Struggle in Allende's the House of Spirits Literature cannot help but reflect the period in which it was written and with which it is concerned, even when these are not the same things.

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Spirituality and self-reliance in Into the Wild and Walden

Who Am I? In considering one's own sense of self and spirituality, it is important to consider humanity's history. While modern culture promotes the individual, the individual self is just a concept. We are a part of something much greater.

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Gary Nash's analysis of race and revolution in early America

"The American Revolution involved multiple agendas," Gary Nash explains in the preface to Race and Revolution, "and some of the most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionaries who saw race as the great "American dilemma" (ix).

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Marijuana legalization as a solution to Mexican drug cartel violence

In 2006 the Mexican President Filipe Calderon unleashed a military offensive against the country's drug cartels, partly to stop the flow of illegal drugs to the United States.

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Educational research: descriptive studies, evaluation, and methodological clarity

For example, if a person desires to grasp why people behave the way they do, then he or she will observe their actions and draw conclusions during this process.

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Using assessment results to guide writing instruction

There are two major strategies in linking assessment and instruction: 1) making instructional decisions in light of assessment results or 2) planning instruction to achieve the objectives represented by an assessment.

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Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction and groundwater contamination

Marcellus Shale is a black fine-grained laminated formation of sediments. It extends deep underground from Ohio and West Virginia into Pennsylvania and southern New York (Paterson 2011). In some locations, it is exposed at the ground surface.

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Collateralized debt obligations and the global financial crisis

Collateralized debt obligations were one of the most significant contributing factors to the global economic downturn. In particular, they played a role in spreading the crisis so widely, and in being a root cause of the credit crunch that precipitated the worst of the recession.

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Lee's six romantic love styles and partner selection

Choice in romantic partners encompasses numerous different conceptual issues in addition to factors that are likely impossible to quantify in objective terms.

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