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Criminal responsibility and psychopathy in law

Criminal Law and Psychopathy I. Introduction Various studies have in the past indicated that there is a high correlation between violence/criminal behavior and psychopathy.

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City diplomacy and the role of cities in international politics

Over the past several decades, there has been a tendency for cities to be involved internationally and this is stated to demonstrate that demonstrates that the maintenance of international relations is no longer exclusively the domain of national governments.

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Reality and illusion in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman, playwright Arthur Miller places emphasis on the major theme of reality vs. illusion to better demonstrate that the Loman family generally cannot distinguish between the two concepts, and that confusion will ultimately lead to Willy Loman's downfall.

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Neo-Aristotelian analysis of Jane Fonda's feminist rhetoric

In September 2005, Jane Fonda gave the keynote speech, entitled "The New Feminism: Reuniting the Head, the Heart & the Body," at Women & Power, a three-day conference hosted by the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, an organization oriented towards "focusing on health and wellness, spiritual…

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Narration, setting, and moral psychology in Stevenson's Markheim

Markheim was written in 1885 and is widely recognized as one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most successful short stories. It was initially published in a Christmas-time annual and later appeared in Stevenson's the Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887).

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Book Review Undergraduate 6,774 words

Chris Anderson's Long Tail Theory: Economics and Communication

An analysis of Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory examining how internet economics, niche markets, and mass communication theory intersect to reshape business models.

Economics

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,656 words

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara: Battle of Gettysburg Review

A book review of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, examining how the novel portrays the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of its key generals.

Literature

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Book Review Undergraduate 2,861 words

Christ-Centered Preaching by Chapell: A Book Review

A review of Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching, examining expository sermon structure, the Fallen Condition Focus, and redemptive biblical theology.

Religion

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Western hegemony and the universality of human rights standards

In Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus edited by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim (1992), the articles are mostly concerned with reworking the notion of human rights in an effort to achieve consensus on a 'new,' 'more universal' (or cosmopolitan) view of human rights, as "the…

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Language and alienation in Fanon's Black Skin White Masks

Grove, 1967. Fanon examines language's role in the black man's alienation from the other, the European (17). In his words, "a man who has language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language" (18). Simply put, language acts as a route into the colonizer's culture.

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