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Hildegard von Bingen's music and spiritual illuminations

Listening to the music of von Bingen may be one of the most effective ways to relive the twelfth century that is currently available.

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Mexico's geographic regions and biodiversity hotspots

Covering an area approximately 1,978,000 square kilometers, Mexico is the third largest nation in Latin America after Brazil and Argentina.

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Fatalism in Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native"

The theme and concept of fatalism expressed in the Return of the Native is an important and pervasive element in all of Thomas Hardy's Works.

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University duty of care and tort liability in campus safety

According to the Department Justice of Bureau Statistics report in Legal Series Bulletin #2, 2002: "In 1996 10 out of every 1,000 students age 12 through 18, or a total of 255,000 children were victims of serious violent crimes at school or as they traveled to and from it. U.S.

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Michael Almereyda's Hamlet: technology and modern adaptation

The play Hamlet is one of the most complicated and respected plays in all of theater. One reason for this is that Shakespeare's characters are written both powerfully and ambiguously. Therefore, the role of the director in a production of Hamlet is pivotal.

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Botanical exploration and women gardeners in the eighteenth century

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, pearls were a very popular bauble with the wealthy and the royal; brought back from the explorations of the Far East and the New World and still rare, they are seen in portraits most particularly of Queen Elizabeth I, but also of other nobles.

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Peter's confession of Jesus as the Messiah in Matthew 16:13-20

While the confession of Peter is found in all three of synoptic gospels (Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 8:27-30, Luke 9:18-21), the Book of Matthew offers the gospel center of the Galilean ministry.

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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the staging of Renaissance drama

William Shakespeare was born into a world of words that took him from cold, stone castles in Scotland to the bustling cities of Italy and the high seas of colonial change.

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Secure mobile payment service development and the SEMOPS project

Mobile payment is paying for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device. They can be used in a variety of payment scenarios.

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Gillborn's analysis of race and ethnicity in British education policy

A methodological purist, Gillborn's analysis of the British education system inside the visual vein of race and ethnicity supports a totalitarian failure, plainly capitulated in "Fifty Years of Failure: 'Race' and Education Policy in Britain." (Gillborn, 1999) The 1980s brought with it a…

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