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Human security threats in Indonesia and Burma

Threats to security are seen to come not only from external military aggression but also from a myriad of internal challenges -- separatist movements, social unrest, or the collapse of the political system." -- Anwar 2003,

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Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler on gender as social construction

From birth, humans learn, act out and experience their gendered identities. The society's concepts of femininity and masculinity form a person's relationship to his/her body and the bodies of other individuals. The issue of gender is also an aspect of prevailing norms of inequality and oppression.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on law as pragmatic prediction and morality

Rule of Law Legitimate? What exactly is Law but a well-known and legitimate Profession? According to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Cross burning and the R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul case

Cross burning is one of the hate crimes that occur in the state of New Jersey on the regular basis.

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Jewish marriage ceremonies and traditions in Hebrew law

Judaism believes that marriage to be the ideal state of existence, that a man without a wife or, a woman without a husband are incomplete (Jewish pp).

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Herman Melville's Billy Budd: impressment and military ethics in context

Billy Budd -- a tale of the sea or an allegory of fate? Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd seems to function in many ways like an allegorical novel about a classic moral tragedy, but such a reading does not place the novel in sufficient historical or political context to fully explain the…

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Mechanization of housework and the changing necessity of marriage

Today, it is a fact that more and more marriages are becoming impermanent and less long lasting than they ever have been before. What is the cause for this phenomenon?

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Resistance in group therapy for substance abuse treatment

The first question that has to be asked is whether the person needs any treatment.

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William Faulkner's life and literary career

A renowned novelist, William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 (The Columbia Encyclopedia). Eight years prior to his birth, his grandfather was killed by an ex-partner in business. William Faulkner was the eldest of the siblings.

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Macrina the Younger and early female monastic leadership

In monasticism, the participation of women started very early and apart from the hermits who lived in the desert, there were women in Rome who were living like in a monastic manner.

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