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The National Weather Service: from early observations to government scandal

National Weather Service (NWS) is a government agency that affects every resident of the United States in important ways. Because of its skill in predicting extreme weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes, potentially thousands of lives have been saved.

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Domestic violence victim statistics and comprehensive intervention approaches

Domestic violence is an insidious problem that affects communities large and small within the entire nation. It is a problem that affects young and old, affluent and underprivileged alike. There are many ways to view domestic violence.

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Controversy over zoos and animal welfare ethics

Most people have fond memories of going to the zoo as children to see the animals. Younger people probably remember clean places with no barred cages and some attempt at a natural setting for the animals.

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Nursing philosophy and labor and delivery theory in practice

This paper is an insight into some philosophies of nursing with an emphasis on the process of Labor and Delivery. I believe the research was thorough and is well supported because I attempted to use relevant materials from several nursing theorists.

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Fortune and virtue in Machiavelli's The Prince

Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli [...] relationship between "fortuna" and "virtu." How does Machiavelli use this relationship to construct his idea of politics?

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Jared Diamond's environmental theory of cultural and technological divergence

Jared Diamond's book - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies won the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

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Mexico's geographic regions and biodiversity hotspots

Covering an area approximately 1,978,000 square kilometers, Mexico is the third largest nation in Latin America after Brazil and Argentina.

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University duty of care and tort liability in campus safety

According to the Department Justice of Bureau Statistics report in Legal Series Bulletin #2, 2002: "In 1996 10 out of every 1,000 students age 12 through 18, or a total of 255,000 children were victims of serious violent crimes at school or as they traveled to and from it. U.S.

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Margaret Atwood's theory of survival in Canadian literature

Margaret Atwood is arguably one of the most influential female Canadian writers of the last four decades.

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Normandi Ellis's translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a western title for an ancient collection of Egyptian manuscripts, the majority of which were funerary in nature. These collected writings have also been referred to as the Egyptian Bible or identified by the names of the scribes who penned them.

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