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Chemical migration from plastic food packaging and health risks

The Ecology Center (2011) says that besides the fact that plastics create safety problems during production, many chemical additives that give plastic products their desirable properties for performance also have very negative effects on the environment and humans' health.

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Giuseppe Verdi's transformation of Italian opera through theatrical drama

Telling stories through music and song is something that "predates history and appears to be universal" (Berger 2000). All one needs to do is a give a group of people around a campfire a guitar and -- even today -- they will shortly be telling stories through song (2000).

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Quinault and Lully's collaboration in French opera

The existence of operas is largely owed to the good cooperation that takes place between composers and librettists, with the latter writing the text on which the artwork is based on while the former adapt the respective writing to their perspective on music.

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Environmental and economic impacts of the bottled water industry

What are the environmental and economical effects of drinking bottled water? What are the factors behind the success of bottled water business? What is your opinion on promoting bottled water vs. tap water?

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Computer crime's expansion through the internet and cyberspace

Cyberspace has now become a thrilling new avenue for criminologists. The conventional methodology of criminology has been confronted by the virtual reality & computer-based communications, infusing new kinds of divergence, crime & social regulations.

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Richard D. Mosier's two views of American educational philosophy

Richard D. Mosier (1951) discusses two views of American education, one which frames education as experience, as formation from without, and the other that sees education as growth or development within. These two ideas can also be defined as traditional and progressive approaches to education.

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Bertrand Russell's philosophy of knowledge and human perception

Philosophy, it seemed, was one of those disciplines that involved professors in tweed coats and thick glasses, playing chess and smoking their pipe, arguing over things that were so esoteric and complicated they had no real relevance to anyone's life, save other academics.

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The Parlement of Paris and judicial centralization in Auvergne under Louis XIV

The conduct of the magistrates assigned to the tribunals in Auvergne closely followed the objectives imposed by the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV.

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Julie Mertus on nationalism and ethnic conflict in Kosovo

How does Mertus explain ethnic conflict in Kosovo/a? Identify the bones of contention in ethnic conflict. What is the KLA? Discuss why its role was significant in Kosovo/a during the 1990s.

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Therapeutic relationships in nursing: Peplau and Watson's theories of patient care

Within the medical field, be it hospital, hospice, nursing home, or mental health, one of the most cherished and important relationships is that between the caregiver and patient.

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