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Ownership of ideas: philosophical approaches and case study

The ownership of ideas is a complicated, prickly academic and legal issue and one that has being debated for some time now. It has gained prominence with the emergence of Information technology and related tools but the concept itself has been around for centuries.

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Evolution of fast food in America from the 1950s to present

The past 55 years have witnessed a number of history-changing events, but one of the most enduring to have emerged from the political and social turbulence has been the propensity of people around the world to eat fast food.

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The New Deal as revolutionary transformation of American government and economy

Eminent scholarship and critical historical reviews to the contrary notwithstanding, there was little about the New Deal that could be called "conservative," unless one looks at the Merriam-Webster Online definition of "conservative" as a noun, letter "b" under "2" ("a cautious or discreet…

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Comedy as defiance in Life is beautiful

It may seem strange to discus comedy in a film which essentially deals with the most devastating atrocity of the Twentieth Century -- the Holocaust. The film is also based on the love, anxiety and suffering of a father for his child in the most deadly of circumstances.

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Marcus Garvey's philosophy and the back-to-Africa movement

Marcus Garvey was the central figure in, perhaps, the largest African-American movement in United States history. He stood as the most outspoken proponent of the notion that Africans should return to Africa and start their own nation; this has come to be known as the "back to Africa" movement.

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Escapism and family dysfunction in The Glass Menagerie and The Sound and the Fury

The writer explores the primary texts, and secondary sources to develop a critical analysis of the characters and their dysfunction and how escapism is used in both situations.

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Roper v. Simmons and the debate over juvenile death penalty

Supreme Court by a majority decision on March 1, 2005 in Roper v. Simmons held that death penalty for juveniles was "cruel and unusual" and as such the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S.

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The abortion debate in American democracy and compromise

Not many people disagree when a law is passed that is objective and does not impact religious beliefs and value systems. For example, some individuals protested the speed limit of 55 mph on many federal highways.

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Social identity and human agency in Beckett and Nabokov

The human is not a self-sufficient entity, but is built through social conventions. This notion reveals itself in the transitional postmodern works by Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov -- specifically, in Lolita and Waiting for Godot.

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Writing across the curriculum as a learning and skill development tool

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs became popular during the mid-1970s in response to a perceived deficiency in students' writing and thinking abilities.

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