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Steven Holl's Kiasma museum and architectural phenomenology

Kiasma, the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, takes its name from the Finnish word for chiasma, which was the original title of architect Steven Holl's winning design.

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Literary ethnography of Jesus's teachings on anxiety in Matthew 6:25-34

This paper offers a literary ethnography of the passage known as the Sermon on the Mount, the Epitome of the Teachings of Jesus, Matt 6:25-34. The passage offers guidance to individuals who worry, letting them know that God will care for their needs.

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Rick Perry's execution of Kelsey Patterson through a Kantian ethics lens

The United States Supreme Court made a judgment in 1976 to allow the fifty states to reinstate capital punishment if they wish to. The state that has put the most convicted criminals to death is Texas.

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Declining K-12 music education enrollment and the No Child Left Behind Act

By any objective standard, K-12 public school music programs are in trouble. Due to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that renewed the Elementary Education Act 1965 under then president George W. Bush, music programs are being cut due to an increased emphasis on core subjects.

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Media violence and children's aggression: evidence and debate

Media has a powerful impact on society. Media alters our buying habits, controls our tastes, incites our feelings against or for one or the other group or country, it is a powerful weapon indeed.

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Marijuana legalization as economic and criminal justice policy

Legalize Marijuana Now! Today, the United States enjoys the dubious distinction of incarcerating more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation on earth.

~8 min read

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The Affordable Care Act and persistent restrictions in American health care

Although the publicity surrounding the issue has been considerable and made to look like it is a recent problem facing the nation, the problem, in reality, has been on the horizon for nearly a century.

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Family trauma and complicity in Rosellen Brown's Before and After

Rosellen Brown's novel Before and After deals with the traumatic reverberations of a possible murder in a small town, and especially on the family of the primary suspect.

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Self-assessment of leadership potential using multiple intelligence measures

I scored evenly on all of the types of intelligence measured by this self-assessment: logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and musical. This indicates that I am a well-rounded person with the ability to work in multiple environments on different tasks.

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Swift's satirical rhetoric in A Modest Proposal and pseudo-scientific argumentation

Jonathan Swift's satirical work A Modest Proposal is particularly successful at lambasting careless attitudes towards the poor because Swift's proposal that poor children be sold as food for the upper classes is rendered in the language of pseudo-scientific argument and economics.

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