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University carbon emissions reduction strategy and targets

The university's goal is to reduce carbon emissions according to a strategy that calls for improved environmental performance according to the best practices found in industry.

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Bullying victimization by race, gender, and perceived isolation in schools

The destructive ramifications of bullying behavior in schools has become an issue of national (and even worldwide) concern for the safety of students.

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Economic benefits of opening the US-Mexico border

The enforcement of the borders of the United States has been a debated subject during the Obama Administration.

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Racist portrayals of the South in Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind

Long hailed as one of Hollywood's cinematic masterpieces, Gone with the Wind was based off of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1937 novel of the same title. After it's release, Gone with the Wind the film won ten Academy awards and has earned over $1 billion in revenue to date

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Kierkegaard's concept of the leap of faith and the suspension of the ethical

What did Kierkegaard mean when he said religion requires a "leap of faith?" Kierkegaard believed that faith is the definitive subjective act -- that is, it is irrational, a "leap" beyond all probable rationalization.

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The misuse of racism accusations and progress in race relations

The word racism has different definitions and a variety of connotations, but for the purpose of simplicity it can be described as racial accounts for dissimilarities in human nature or aptitude and that one particular race is better than another.

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Technology and postmodernity as drivers of twenty-first century social change

What factor(s) do you think will shape and/or determine the major social changes that will occur during the twenty-first century?

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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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