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The efficient market hypothesis: forms, empirical tests, and critique

A financial market is efficient with respect to information item, if the new information has fully influenced the market prices.

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Rousseau's reconciliation of ancient and modern liberty in government

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher in the eighteenth century who wrote about topics as varied as religion and politics. He famously worked on a treatise with respect to government that attempted to explain what government should be.

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Plea bargaining, justice, and the power imbalance in criminal proceedings

Plea bargaining by its very nature implies negotiation, which in turn means that two or more parties are seeking to achieve specific goals with the cooperation of the other parties.

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Big data applications in microfinance institutions and lending

The new economic landscape that has been formed by recent history and events, has demonstrated to the world that new approaches and methods are not only acceptable, but in many cases, mandatory.

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Media archaeology and video games: hardware, software, and platforms

In today's world, the rapid development of technology has opened worlds of vast information and entertainment that are instantly accessible at the touch of a button.

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Theodore J. Lowi's critique of interest-group liberalism and Republican coalition

The Republican Party triumphed a majority in both houses of the Congress in the fall of 1994. This was the first time since the 1952 landslide of Eisenhower. It was believed by many that the Republicans had achieved the partisan realignment in the end.

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Descartes and Hume on the nature of reality and imagination

This paper considers what is real and what is fantasy by understanding the ideals of philosophers such as Descarte and Hume. Bibliography cites seven sources.

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Courtly love and chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Homosexual marriage and the search for human union in Plato

Homosexual marriage does not pose a threat to me or my manhood therefore I am for it." Although I am heterosexual, I know what it means to long for union with another human being.

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Marxist and feminist criticism in Wuthering Heights: Eagleton versus Homans

Mother in Wuthering Heights" by Margarret Homans, and "Myths of Power: A Marxist Study on Wuthering Heights" by Terry Eagleton, rely very heavily on their respective critical paradigms in their analysis of Bronte's novel.

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