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Green citizenship, environmental education, and ecological reform

Philosophically, Green Citizenship means working out how best an individual can make an ecological difference in the world. It is an ethical position, involving education, politics, economy, society and culture.

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Virtue and desire in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella

The series of sonnets that are gathered together under the name of Astrophil and Stella are representative for the understanding of the way love was conceived of, during the Elizabethan England.

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Douglas Husak's argument for drug decriminalization and legalization

Ever since the 1960s when college students began to smoke marijuana, the issue of illegal drugs has been debated.

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Evaluating the credibility of two AIDS information websites

This paper will compare and contrast two websites, truthaboutaids.com and "The True but Little Known Facts about Women and AIDS," analyzing both for accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage; and ultimately identifying neither as a good source for initiating a study of AIDS…

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Alcoholism as a disease: genetic and environmental factors

Throughout many parts of the world, alcoholic consumption is often a part of social gathering like picnics, graduations, sporting events, and many more.

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Tom Toles' 2011 gay rights political cartoon analysis

Tom Toles' most recent cartoon for the Washington Post shows a wedding cake with -- instead of the traditional bride and groom figurines -- a groom and a groom, smiling and holding hands.

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Community-based intervention models for juvenile delinquency prevention

While there is a debate regarding the criminalization that is being done to people just because they consume drugs, as of now the whole global community is against the offenders and addicts and wants them reformed or locked away.

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Charitable foundations' ideological conflicts with community needs

There are ten steps that have been defined as critical components of community development: defining the professional's role; researching the community; entering the community; raising consciousness; assessing needs and assets; defining goals; building strategies; strategizing; taking action, and…

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The ethics of sacrificing twelve lives to save humanity in Fringe

Fringe is about an FBI team that joins forces with a scientist (once institutionalized) and his son to crack cases that are considered "fringe" cases because they lie outside of what is considered the norm.

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My writing improvement through planning and organization strategies

In large part though, the writing-intensive nature of our course and especially the attention given to the exhaustive research paper have helped to set me on my way toward competency and even perhaps some level of excellence as a writer.

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