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Money, love, and forgiveness in "The Gilded Six-Bits"

We grow up hearing the grass is always greener on the other side of the hill because things look better from a distance. This is a cliche but far too many times, it is true.

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Obama administration health care reform and economic sustainability

Health care reform looms as one of the major initiatives of the Obama administration. Many economists have stated their case for health care reform. Paul Krugman (2009) claims that the cost controls on Medicaid will save the U.S. from a budget crisis.

~10 min read

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Tolkien's judicious word choice in The Lord of the Rings

Although the recent motion picture adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, was not the first such enterprise, it did go a long way towards attracting a new generation of readers to the trilogy and its prologue in The Hobbit.

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National Hockey League financial stability and franchise viability

How financially solid is the National Hockey League (NHL)? There are indications that while some NHL franchises are profitable, several other franchises -- perhaps as many as five of the thirty -- are sinking like a stone.

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Individual and society in Doctorow's City of God

City of God is a very interesting novel written by the American author E. L Dotorow. What makes the book interesting is not just the unusual manner in which it is written (the technique), but also the approached themes.

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The New York Times coverage of Sputnik and American anxieties

New York Times treaded the Sputnik event very fairly, reporting on it in an objective manner and revealing the fear and confusion that was spreading throughout the U.S. government at the time.

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Transformational leadership's impact on subordinate development and performance

This work intends to examine and discuss the impact of transformational leadership on the development and performance of subordinates.

~9 min read

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Systemic risk management in banking during the financial crisis

Systemic risk has increased, owing to a high degree of economic interdependency and due to a lack of orientation towards systemic risk. While interdependency has not increased, it is at a high level.

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Heroic archetypes in Hamlet, Oedipus, and Beckett's tramps

The Shakespearean hero Hamlet is seemingly the paradigmatic tragic hero of what is perhaps the most famous play ever written. Hamlet is nobly born, as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern remind him, and as Polonius reminds Ophelia when he says that Hamlet is a prince "out of thy star" (2.2).

~6 min read

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Racism and stereotypes' impact on African-American women's mental health

Women have been portrayed in various ways throughout time. How race, class, and gender stereotypes impact the representation of women is a very important consideration, and it has changed over the course of history.

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