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Japan's recession following the September 11 terrorist attacks

Following the United States terrorist attacks on September 11 and the outbreak of mad cow disease, economic analysts are predicting the onset of a deepening recession in Japan.

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FERPA protections for adult college students: Maryland and national perspectives

The Family Educational and Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C.S. § 1232g; 34 CFR 99, is a national law that focuses on the privacy rights of student education records for public school students and students of schools receiving public educational funds, from elementary level through the…

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The role of the Holy Spirit in liberation theology

Shenk ( 2001) states that there are two features of central significance in the development of Christianity during the last century.

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Thermoregulation and heat adaptation in mammals

There are a number of physical responses that occur in the a mammal's body when it is exposed to heat. It is important to not only understand what thermoregulation is, but the physiological and/or anatomical thermoregulatory responses that allow sustained exercise in horses.

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Can technological progress overcome scarcity?

While some hope that eventually, technology will be so advanced, it will be able to provide everyone on earth with everything needed, it is unlikely that will happen. There has always been technology, and it has always advanced.

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Amartya Sen's development as freedom and global inequality

The problem of "development" (or, perhaps "progress" and "advancement" also fits in this context) is that while many millions of citizens of the world have been blessed by dramatic progress (technological, industrial, and communications) over the past few decades, many millions are being left…

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Roman hostility toward early Christianity and pagan criticism

Early Christianity did not develop in isolation, but within a complex landscape already occupied by belief systems, social networks, systems of identity, and political institutions, and it is essential not to regard it 'as somehow independent, as if the church were an entity existing apart from…

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Sports event organization: facilities, marketing, and ticket sales

As a sports events organizers there is a lot of responsibility that is involved. First would be able to find out the condition of the facilities being used for the baseball game. It would be to look for the best baseball fields.

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Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters and Irish institutional abuse

Peter Mullan's 2002 movie The Magdalene Sisters depicts the dark side of Irish culture, church, and history. From the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland ran profitable asylums for women.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society

The stock market crash of 1929 brought an economic crisis worldwide, and unemployment in the United States rose from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933 (New Deal pp). When Franklin D.

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