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Comparing the Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust

The Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust in Europe are two if the greatest atrocities of the twentieth century. Though both of these events resulted in mass extermination of hundreds of thousands of people they had very different beginnings, and world reaction.

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Reducing juvenile delinquency through educational and community intervention programs

Juvenile delinquency has long plagued the American society. From the country's earliest days, individuals and groups of troubled youths were tried by the court systems and placed in correctional institutions.

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Mark Peel's "The Lowest Rung": poverty, justice, and social structures

Mark Peel's book the Lowest Rung paints a paradoxical picture of desolation and hope for those living in poverty in some of Australia's outer working-class suburbs.

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Assumption and its consequences in Ovid and Euripides

Assumption is a dangerous thing. Often, assumption is based on misinformation and can lead to horrible mistakes. It is an easy thing to do and, most of the time, we are not fully aware we are doing it until it is too late.

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Is commerce ever ethical? Business ethics from Friedman to Sarbanes-Oxley

Commerce ever Ethical? The issue of ethics in business has become increasingly important in recent years, in particular in light of the wave of frauds and accounting scandals in the early 2000s that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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David Lewis's modal realism and the plurality of possible worlds

Modal realism, as explicated by David Lewis in his work on the Plurality of Worlds, concerns the infinity of possibilities. On Lewis's view, there are infinite possibilities of worlds, where an infinite number of individuals are living an infinite amount of lives.

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Electronic medical records and the reduction of medical errors

Electronic Medical Records: Can they Reduce Medical Errors? The phenemon of medical errors is not a new one, but it is one that has drawn quite a bit of attention in recent years. It is thought that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die every year due to some type of medical error.

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Kantian ethics and decision-making in business management

Deidre McCloskey, the Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). [HB501 M55341 2006 -- Grad]

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Language acquisition and critical analysis of the Genie case study

Scientists are inquisitive because they ask all the important questions (what, when, where, and why; they are persistent (they never quit trying to figure things out); they are explorative (they employ the scientific approach to examine a problem and then they design experiments to test whether…

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Emotional and physical burdens in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

The Things They Carried is an emotional narrative about several American soldiers serving together in the Vietnam War. The story is told to the reader in the second person, yet the reader can identify with each soldier as if he was telling the story himself.

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