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The right to bear arms and responsible gun regulation in America

Gun control became an issue for Americans in the 1960s when President Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, all with guns. People began to demand that the government do something to stop the spread of guns and murder (Ruhl, Rizer, & Wier, 2003/2004).

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Robert Merton's theory of deviance and anomie in social structures

Rather than attribute deviant behavior to psychological or biological impulses, Robert Merton explains deviance in sociological terms.

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Military versus diplomatic achievements in U.S. foreign policy, 1930–1956

The Achievements of the Military are More Decisive than the Achievements of the Diplomats (With Reference to the U.S. Foreign Policy between 1930 and 1956)

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Discrimination against gays and lesbians in the American workplace

While many people today may not remember a time and place where minorities and women were discriminated against openly in the American workplace, the time was not in fact so long ago.

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Pornography, the First Amendment, and Catharine MacKinnon's feminist critique

She is right to protest that crimes are committed by men who are deeply involved daily in viewing pornography, because some of those men have the idea that it is okay to use women's bodies to relieve their carnal cravings. Violence against women should never be protected by the Constitution.

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Jon Meacham's American Gospel and religious freedom in America

The book American Gospel by Jon Meacham presents a refresh comprehensible thinking, impartial and wise historical portrayal of religion and American politics at a time when such equality and understanding are much required (Maier, 2006).

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own": war, feminism, and identity

"[a]s a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world" -Virginia Woolf

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Family business formation, success criteria, and case study analysis

Starting and running a business can be both rewarding and stressful. It all starts with an idea. This idea grows and evolves and ideally gains the substance it needs to become a plan that will subsequently be implemented.

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John Dewey's analysis of Darwinism's philosophical impact

When Charles Darwin first published his On the Origin of Species in 1859 it immediately sparked a scientific and theological controversy with the intellectual world.

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The motif of doom in Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and fiction

Were all the literary works of Nathaniel Hawthorne compiled into a single manuscript, then appropriately filtered to include only works of prose and fiction, and if an attempt were then made to uncover a single motif spanning through the vast majority of the remaining text, it would read something…

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