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Mark's authorship and reliability in early Christian tradition

According to Christian tradition, Mark, who served as both interpreter and disciple of Peter, took responsibility to write down the teachings of his pedagogue after both his and Paul's death.

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Herman Melville's Billy Budd: impressment and military ethics in context

Billy Budd -- a tale of the sea or an allegory of fate? Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd seems to function in many ways like an allegorical novel about a classic moral tragedy, but such a reading does not place the novel in sufficient historical or political context to fully explain the…

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Sartre and Baldwin on the psychology of anti-Semitism and racism

In "Anti-Semite and Jew," the existentialist philosopher John Paul Sartre, a gentile, analyzed the psychology of an anti-Semitic individual who hates Jews.

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Fear versus science: arguments for the acceptance of human cloning

Fear is an emotion that often paralyzes people and fear of the unknown often precipitates irrational thoughts and behavior. One hot topic that illustrates this point is cloning. Many opponents to the subject of cloning are basing their arguments on fear.

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Workplace conflict causes and productive management approaches

Professional conflicts are encountered quite commonly. Irrespective of its causes like owner disagreements, personal matters, issues with regard to vendor relations, client issues or competitive conditions, our professional lives provide ample opportunities to handle it.

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Black women's participation in the nineteenth-century American abolitionist movement

What types of restrictions did women (both white and black) face in American society at this point? Why did more people at this point accept the idea of freeing blacks than giving women equal rights and opportunity?

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Descartes's mind-body distinction and the existence of material things

Descartes successful in showing that "the existence of material things, and the real distinction between mind and body?" (Meditation VI)

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China's information control and secret business dealings with the United States

Another case study that illustrates this belief is the one involving China's aviation- trading arm, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corp or CATIC (Kahn, May 22, 1996). In 1989 this company desired to buy Mamco Manufacturing Inc., a U.S.

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Dialectical behavioral therapy and the treatment of borderline personality disorder

One of the more obvious determinants of the BPD individual can be ascertained by the quality of the relationships that he or she is involved in. Studies show that interpersonal relationship in BPD is usually very poor and troubled. Researchers note that "...

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Don Marquis's argument against abortion based on future deprivation

Author Don Marquis's view justifies the immorality of abortion on identical grounds with that of the immorality of killing an adult human being. Akin to killing an adult human which is prima facie wrongful as it denies him of a future life, killing a fetus also deprives it of a future life.

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