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Community policing implementation challenges and best practices in American municipalities

From a law enforcement and community relations perspective, it would just seem to make good sense to place as many police officers "on the beat" in any given community and this, in fact, has proven to be the case in cities across the country.

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and women's creative independence

ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: VIRGINIA WOOLF room of ones own," is a narrative account addressing the inadequacy of women's contribution in fiction writing.

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Martin Luther's critique of Catholic corruption in "The Freedom of a Christian"

What Martin Luther shared in his narrative (featured in Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing) for those in his era, and for all those generations many millennia later, was nothing short of a brilliant interpretation of what a non-reformist observer would view as honest Christian values.

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Language and terminology in global law enforcement counterterrorism

The old children's rhyme, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," is oddly inconsistent with the realities of human discourse, something we know all too well since the advent of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with understanding the connection between language…

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Teaching writing as a process through revision and improvement stages

The result of this is that students are left with the impression that writing is a one-time product that cannot improve beyond the first attempt. Teachers are faced with the dilemma that students deliver work with too much room for improvement.

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Standardized testing bias and the shift toward holistic college admissions

standardized tests truly reflective of all students, even those with cultural diversity, limited English, and disabilities?

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Ethanol as a renewable alternative fuel solution

In the famous fairy tale Rumplestiltskin, the miller's daughter is required to spin straw into gold. Only magic can accomplish it. But today, as the price of gasoline goes up and up, most Americans believe that alternative fuels must be developed -- soon -- and are hoping for some similar magic.

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Paul Freire's banking concept of education and classroom oppression

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze Paul Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Specifically it will focus on an incident from my own educational experience and interpret it as Freire would. The incident happened many years ago but remains fresh in my mind.

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The development of Catholic dogma and doctrine

In the Catholic faith there is a common ground, a true cohesion that exists between dogma and doctrine. Dogma is Natura non-facit saltus. Everywhere the more complicated forms develop from the simpler forms, the higher from the lower, and the human from the animal.

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Thomas Paine's political philosophy and democratic theory

Thomas Paine's political, religious, and social philosophy burst upon the late eighteenth century scene to great acclaim.

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