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The limits of human language in representing God

We cannot adequately represent the fullness of God within the confines of human language and discourse. The author is correct to assert that it is a difficult activity to address the concept of God.

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Temptation and sin in Christian belief: a personal tax ethics analysis

The temptation arrives on a mental level; internally. When a Christian acts on this temptation and succumbs to it, the act is externalized. The goal of attempting to deal with temptation is to maintain the temptation in the internal arena without letting it degenerate into action.

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Context-dependent memory effects across sensory modalities and species

While we often speak of ourselves as having a 'good' or a 'bad' memory, the nature of human learning and the process of encoding memory is considerably more complex than simply being 'good' or 'bad' in terms of memory storage and retrieval.

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Reform policies of Mustafa Kemal and Reza Khan compared

In the aftermath of World War I, the world had begun to experience massive structural change, with a wave of imperial collapses producing a groundswell of nationalism and independence movements.

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Qualitative research methodology in online K-12 education and air traffic control

Both use qualitative research in significantly different roles within their methodologies, making significant contributions to each.

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How spreadsheets enable companies to achieve organizational objectives

The value of spreadsheets has grown in direct correlation to the breadth of their adoption, and the creativity users have applied to using these software applications in solving problems.

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Charter schools as models for educational innovation and community collaboration

Charter Schools: Wave of the Future? The best examples of models for family, community and school collaboration are those which combine the forces of family, church (as well as other community organizations) and the public school. This is especially true amongst parochial schools.

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Walter Borneman's analysis of the War of 1812 and American national identity

The main thesis of the "1812: The War That Forget a Nation" that Walter Borneman put forward is that this respective war was the main factor in finalizing the American national identity.

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Religion and economic transformation in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837

"A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837" presents a complex analysis on the nature of early 19th century economic and social shifts in one of New York most complicated areas of that period -- Rochester.

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Salem Possessed: economic conflict and the 1692 witch trials

In "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft" Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum have produced one of the most comprehensive and objective analysis of the Salem witch trials of 1692, using various demographic data in supporting the following idea: the events had as main cause…

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