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The atomic bomb and Japan's transformation from empire to democracy

The Atomic Bomb and Its Effects on Japan and the World Modern Japanese culture is fraught with paradox.

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John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx on freedom and equality

The purpose of the present paper is to compare and contrast the following books: On Liberty, written by John Stuart Mill in 1859 and The manifesto of the communist party, written by Marx and Engels in 1848.

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Understanding teen suicide through personal narrative and loss

My relationship with suicide is longer than I would care to imagine. One of our dear family friends, an adult, took his life after several failed suicide attempts, which were explained as accidents to all of the young children who heard about them, even his own children.

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Literary methodologies for interpreting J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Peter Pan is ostensibly a legendary children's book but through the years it has been poked, prodded, sniffed at, devoured, stripped naked and examined for those mysterious hidden -- or obvious -- meanings and rumored dark metaphors. The authors, critics, scholars and others who have dissected J.M.

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Type-2 diabetes: causes, symptoms, and metabolic consequences

Also called adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes, this is a chronic condition in the body's metabolism of sugar or glucose (Mayo Clinic Staff 2009). The body resists the effects or insulin or does not produce enough of it to maintain a normal glucose level.

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Corporate income tax and the taxation of overseas profits

The corporate entity is a 'person 'in the eye of law, and thus is subject to income tax. The issue is two fold: One is that the tax in the U.S.

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XML performance optimization for AJAX applications using network configuration

XML has emerged as the globally adopted standard for Internet-based integration of systems and processes and has made the development of knowledge-sharing networks possible (Choi, Wong, 2009)(Ives, Halevy, Weld, 2009).

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The Paris Commune of 1871 and socialist revolution

The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the world's first attempts at implementing the principles of a socialist society. Following on the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War, the country collapsed into near anarchy.

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The public option and Obama's healthcare reform legislation

America's healthcare industry shows us one of the most revealing contradictions in the country's economy.

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South Korea's attractiveness for American business investment and operations

The primordial question at the basis of this study revolves around the attractiveness of South Korea to American investors. Otherwise put, is this country able to determine the American investor to launch business operations in this global part?

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