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Racial beauty standards and self-hatred in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is deals with the historical and psychological effects of defining beauty according to race. The Bluest Eye is essentially about how concepts of beauty are instilled from a very young age. It is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio.

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Financial oligarchy and institutional decay in the United States

In "The Quiet Coup," Simon Johnson draws remarkable and shocking parallels between the United States and emerging market economies.

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Religious hypocrisy and mob mentality in Hawthorne and Jackson

Literature is frequently employed as a device for social and political commentary. This is certainly true in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Both these stories darkly satirize the rigid social conventions that define small town American life.

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Unintended consequences of legislating morality in America

The desire to legislate morality is well established in American history. Our forefather's passed legislation to prohibit acts that they felt might induce people to behave in a socially unacceptable manner.

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Ted Gup's "The Secret Gift": Depression-era philanthropy and human dignity

In 1933, the town of Canton, Ohio had plunged into abject poverty. Its residents were suffering a kind of privation that makes the recent recession look mild. Children did not know the meaning of breakfast. People patched their shoes with old tires.

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Legal right to assisted suicide and medical dignity

Assisted suicide should be a legal right. The grounds for this claim include the fact that modern medicine has made it possible to extend life artificially, allowing for people to survive beyond their body's capacity for wellness.

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Community-oriented policing and street-level drug trafficking in New York

The high rates of individuals who are arrested, on probation, incarcerated, or on parole throughout our nation have led some critical criminologists to advocate for the decriminalization of so-called victimless crimes.

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Persuading donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Attention Getter: Every Labor Day, the Jerry Lewis telethon is broadcast on television and people are asked to help Jerry's kids. For more than 60 years, MDA has helped children and adults all over the world who are struggling with muscular dystrophy and related diseases.

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Applying Rogers' diffusion theory to an online collaborative news blog platform

The project will be explained using diffusion theory which was given by Everett Rogers. This project will create a new idea of getting the public opinions as part of the news. In this online blog people would be provided with the platform for creating their own blogs as well.

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Health communication strategies in sub-Saharan Africa and Sierra Leone

There are clearly myriad challenges working toward global health equity in the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries such as Sierra Leone where rapidly-accelerating HIV / AIDS rates are compounded by political and civil unrest and the looming specter of the colonial…

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