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Racial divisions and divisions in Los Angeles after the 1992 riots

Los Angeles, a city of cars, stars, and ethnic neighborhoods, rests on the edge of a continent and shimmers with the promise of dreams fulfilled. But, as the late L.A.

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Media coverage of unemployment forecasting before the 2008 recession

The existence of a pro-business, pro-government bias led to ineffectual journalistic coverage of U.S. unemployment during the period leading up to the 2008-2009 recession. In what has come to be known as the Great Recession because of its comparability to the Great Depression, the U.S.

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Transparency and securities regulation in nonprofit organizations

The ensuring of the fact that an organization is working as per regulations and is following the code of conduct, while keeping the interest of the public first, are matters which are becoming more and more complicated with the passage of time.

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Is Confucianism the major religion of Japan?

Religion is a cultural phenomenon and institution that involves specific behaviors and practices. Religion has been present for a great deal of human history. Religion is concerned with beliefs. Belief is a powerful tool in a person's life.

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Thomas Nagel's theory of sexual perversion and mutual awareness

"About multiple combinations," Nagel says of orgies and presumably other many-person sexual encounters, "the least that can be said is that they are bound to be complicated" (Nagel, 1969). [All references in this piece come from Nagel's original on the subject of Sexual Perversion.]

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Pregnancy interval and conception timing by maternal age in natural fertility populations

Pregnancy outcome and the time required for next conception, Jain (1969) looks at a large group of presumably fertile women and seeks to determine the average age of conception after a previous pregnancy or the length of time between pregnancies in the absence of birth control.

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The danger of definitions: Dadaism and its modern manifestations

Though there have been countless movements and representations of rejections of convention in the history of modern art in many cases these standards were developed by individuals acting in accordance with the idea that "this is how I see the world: love it or leave it" and hopefully love it as…

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Gender oppression and self-identity in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman offers a look at the conventionalized aspects of society that result in a version of cultural violence which is gender-oppressive.

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Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" and lesbian existence

Author's note with contact information and more details on collegiate affiliation, etc. Adrienne Rich is a feminist theorist with clearly defined ideas that are communicated with sharp, yet graceful articulation.

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Feminine power and morality in García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his work One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) spins a tale of postcolonial Columbia that will likely forever be thought of as a classic work of fiction, brought to light during what many think of a serious high point in Latin American Literature.

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