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Cultural anxiety, globalization, and American primacy in global politics

It is stated in the work of Lieber and Weisberg that culture "in its various forms now serves as a primary carrier of globalization and modern values and constitutes an important arena of contestation for national, religious, and ethnic identity." (2002, p.273) Technology was envisioned by Bill…

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Title VII's impact on women's workplace equality and pay

Legislative background. The word "sex" is always an attention-getter, and when used in legislation, it can be polarizing. Public Law 82-352 (78 Stat. 241) was passed by Congress in 1964 as a civil rights statute.

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Musical analysis of Brahms Symphony No. 2 first movement

The objective of this work is to conduct a music and score analysis of Brahms Symphony No. 2, first movement (Allegro non-troppo).

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Gwendolyn Brooks's radical turn in "Speech to the Young"

Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right.

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Ethical leadership and corporate responsibility in modern American capitalism

Given the recent crash on Wall Street and the housing market symbolized by corrupt financiers like Bernard Madoff, ethical and moral leadership of corporations has become a major issue for those who study the American capitalist system.

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Health risks from bisphenol A in plastic beverage bottles

Whether you drink Coke, Pepsi, Gatorade, or any of hundreds of possible beverage choices, the chances are you will drink it from a plastic bottle.

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Teilhard de Chardin's theological justification for God's role in Darwinian evolution

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is one of the few people who can legitimately claim a place in the history of both Darwinian science and Christian theology.

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Urban crime rates and socioeconomic factors in United States cities

Crime in urban cities is at least 1.5 times higher than suburban or rural areas. Many factors account for this difference including higher poverty, more densely populated centers, presence of poor minorities, low education, limited resources etc.

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Mary Shelley's representation of childbirth in Frankenstein's creation scene

In tracing the historical etymology of the word "monster," the Oxford English Dictionary offers a primary definition of something to be stared at or marveled over (from the same root as "demonstrate") but notes the second-most common use of the word is biological: "an animal or plant deviating in…

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Herding behavior and the neurological basis of bank panics

The work of Devenow and Welch (1996) states that the most basic of human instincts is likely to be that of "…imitation and mimicry" which are the primary characteristics in what is known as 'herding' which often specifically occurs related to such as "fashion and fads…" (Devenow and Welch, 1996,…

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