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Milton's use of opposing forces to create drama in Paradise Lost

John Milton's world in Paradise Lost is God's world -- a world that is highly ordered, fundamentally hierarchical and relentlessly dualistic. It is a world in which everything has a pair, an opposite, a mirror image. This is not a world of subtle differences and tones of gray.

~18 min read

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Reconstructing the historical Jesus from Roman and Jewish sources

Jesus is well-known as a religious figure, but what do we know of his real existence within a historical context? Unfortunately, ancient sources outside the context of canonical literature prove scarce and ambiguous.

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Stickball as urban baseball's accessible democratic tradition

America's National Pastime is the once deeply pure and widely beloved, and now often cynically regarded and business oriented business of baseball.

~20 min read

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Communication and deception in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love

The chaotic relationships between the main characters in DH Lawrence's novel Women in Love makes the reader have emotional confusion.

~14 min read

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Urban-rural division in post-revolutionary Chinese media and ideology

The social revolution that began in China at the turn of the century and has lasted up to this day is one of the most tumultuous of all such periods in history.

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PCB contamination of the Upper Hudson River and GE remediation

PCB contamination of the Upper Hudson River. The General Electric Company's involvement in the pollution will be discussed, as well as the established clean up plans for the largest Superfund site in the country. In addition, current progress on the remediation of the river will be presented.

~23 min read

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Evidence-based approach to health care management and practice

The objective of this work is to assess the potential of an evidence-based approach to health care management. Toward this end this work will review the literature in this area of study.

~14 min read

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Eating disorders among gay men: causes and prevalence

Eating disorders of all kinds are prevalent in the homosexual male community for a variety of reasons. Eating disorders are common in young people concerned with their appearances, but they usually occur in young females.

~16 min read

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Murphy's "Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism": a conservative review

Murphy's book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism explores the very nature of America's capitalist society and works to debunk some of the economic myths and falsehoods that many in this country and abroad hold dear.

~15 min read

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Women's path to the U.S. presidency through feminist institutionalization

The time has come when we are likely to see within the next decade a woman become president of the United States. This is progress that has come, but slowly, to American women. The United States, like most other societies around the world, began as a patriarchal society.

~17 min read

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