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Secularism and its role in modern politics

One of the most important and disruptive political and social movements of the last three centuries has been the push towards the secularization of the public sphere, but it has been frequently misunderstood by its proponents and critics alike.

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Challenges to Puritan theocracy in seventeenth-century American colonies

The Puritans who arrived in America in 1630 were on a mission to build a -city upon a hill- as an example of what could be done in a society committed to Gods laws. In the first century of settlement, however, the challenges that they encountered compromised aspects of their mission.

~13 min read

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Media coverage, money, and ideology in the 2012 presidential election

The diverse and sometimes ugly stories, attacks and sundry reports that have been published in print and broadcast in the media (including electronic media) thus far in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election campaign reflect just how divided the nation is.

~20 min read

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Globalization's role in triggering recent financial crises

Does globalization impact in triggering recent economic recession? The current financial crisis will be remembered as one of the most serious in the history of world capitalism.

~23 min read

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Strategic position and financial challenges of Huntington Ingalls Industries

The report uses STEEPL analysis to determine the external factors affecting the company performance. The report has been able to reveal that the U.S. government is the only major customer of Huntington Ingalls and the state of the U.S. economy has affected the financial performance of the company.

~25 min read

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Fetal alcohol syndrome: causes, diagnosis, and interventions

The problems related to fetal alcohol syndrome would seem on the surface to be ones that could be mostly be solved with ample medical research backed by good public information for women.

~16 min read

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Attachment theory and grief: Bowlby, Ainsworth, and continuing bonds

Understanding attachment theory as applied in the study of grief and bereavement in adults require a thorough reading of one of the theory's pioneers, John Bowlby.

~21 min read

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E-business failure during the dot-com bubble: WebVan and eToys case studies

E-business may have been the most innovative idea to emerge from the birth of World Wide Web, but it was also the most misunderstood technology. Most firms believed that e-business would be easy.

~17 min read

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The evolution of memory across historical periods and cultures

Memory is basically a process through which all the relevant information is encoded, accumulated, and the recovered when needed. In first step we receive information from our surrounding, friends and family and we add it up in our memory. Here we start screening the relevant data.

~17 min read

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Guinevere's transformation from silent companion to active adulteress in medieval Arthurian literature

Depictions of Guinevere in Medieval Texts: From Silent Companion to Active Adultery in the Span of a Century The Arthurian legends have been a subject of intense fascination and inspection by readers and scholars alike since they first appeared towards the end of the eighth century or perhaps the…

~24 min read

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