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The Federal Reserve's dual mandate and the limitations of quantitative easing

Economist talks about how the Federal Reserve's dual mandate of stabilizing prices and creating maximum employment is becoming less of a mandate and more of a background goal.

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Sexism and gender portrayal in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms"

Gender-related convictions from the early twentieth century are reflected in the relationship between women and men in the novel

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Nagel's argument against the physical reduction of consciousness

His article goes against physicalism because any physicalist argument is reducing the mental to the physical.

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Anti-Americanism in South Korea after 1945

The diverging relationship between the U.S. And a series of factors that are highly praised by a series of nations has generated a lot of tension in the recent years, largely being responsible for influencing the formation of anti-Americanism.

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Government responses to the Great Depression and 2008 financial crisis

For many people, the Great Depression of 1929 and the 2008 Global Economic Crisis are synonymous with: greed along with vast excesses that came to a sudden halt. As both events, would signal how the government's response to financial related calamites would shape economic growth going forward.

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Male bodies in advertising and North Korean anti-American propaganda

Image and words play an important part in conveying the message. Susan Bordo focuses more on products for sale and how the male models are displayed in these advertisements and what that is saying about the male body in today's time.

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Organizational change and conflict resolution at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

At its start in 1962, the seven founding lawyers of the company Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (MTO) had one aim in mind: to create a high-quality law practice in an environment that stimulates the creativity of its members.

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Cultural identity and healing in Love Medicine, The Woman Warrior, and Bone

In the three texts, the Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Bone by Fae Ng and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, the protagonists are faced with troubling circumstances in their lives.

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Predator selection of victims based on behavioral predictability and lifestyle patterns

The acclaimed criminology text "Predators: Who they are and how to stop them" is a concise and credible resource for the novice or the highly trained criminologist to learn and understand how everyday people can become victims to predators.

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Ted Bundy's corrupted id, ego, and superego

Sigmund Freud first introduced the concept of a structural model of the psyche in his 1920 essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and further elaborated on in "The Ego and the Id." Freud claimed that the psyche was composed of three parts; the id was the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the…

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