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The Immigration and Naturalization Service's role in U.S. immigration governance

In recent years the issue of immigration has sparked a great deal of discussion. Although America is a nation of immigrants, there is also a deep-rooted belief that people should immigrate to America through the proper legal mechanisms.

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Historiography on the Roman historian Sallust and his accounts

The concern of all serious historians has been to collect and record facts about the human past and often to discover new facts"

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Testing geophysical methods to confirm plate tectonics on Mars

theories regarding plate tectonics, with the researcher contending that as Mars tectonics cannot currently be confirmed, more research, including two geophysical methods the researcher would utilize to test the *** theory of Mars tectonics need to be conducted.

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Offender profiling in law enforcement: balancing investigative necessity and civil rights

This work will serve as an in-depth view of offender profiling, a technique often used by law enforcement and other security professionals to develop ideas and potential leads about the who, what, when and where of crime.

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Critical media literacy and education for modern times

Most scholars believe that while the modern era has brought with it unprecedented growth and development in the technology sector; it has also dramatically shifted the power center from the governments to the multinationals.

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Historiography of American slavery in four interpretive works

Each of these works depicts a time and place in the history of American slavery, and each makes unique and valid points regarding this "peculiar" institution.

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Extrasensory perception: history, types, and scientific investigation

Extrasensory perception or ESP refers to a capability to receive external information through means or pathways not through the five physical senses (Ridgway 2008). The ordinary mind does not accept this concept because the world we live in is a physical world.

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Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad and human motivation in rhetoric

An everyday enigma of human experience is figuring out what motivates the people around us, whether they are people with whom we interact or people we watch in the media.

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Al Qaeda: organizational structure, financing, and future threat trends

Many people were heard to observe that "things would never be the same" following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and some even suggested the Osama bin Laden could consider himself a "dead man walking." Almost seven years have passed, though, and while it is reasonable to assert that…

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DNA evidence and the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals

DNA, "the evidence that does not forget..." As Kirk (cited by Butler, 2005, p. 33) purports, aptly introduces the summary for the following paper. As DNA, present in every nucleated cell, constitutes present and biological materials left at crime scenes, Butler (2005. p.

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