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Extreme weather events and ocean warming as evidence of global warming

Many of these weather patterns are related to El Nino or La Nina storms, which are two-to-eight-year weather patterns where changing wind streams pick up warm surface water from the oceans and increases humidity, according to Tim Flannery in his 2005 book The Weather Makers.

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Contrasting visions: John Smith and William Bradford on New England settlement

John Smith's purpose in his writing is clearly to get people to come to America from England. He describes the lands as vast and full of animals to hunt for either pleasure, food, or luxury.

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Utilitarian ethics and the greatest-happiness principle

Ethics is a moral philosophy that attempts to discover a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of people -- which, in Socrates's words, would simply come down to "how we ought to live" -- and why (Rachels & Rachels 2009). But, who is to say how one ought to live?

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Proposed leadership model for developing workplace leader qualifications

For eras there have been people and leaders have discussed what the qualifications that make a great leader are. Leadership travels all the way back to the period of the ancient Greeks.

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The roles of Black women during slavery and Reconstruction

The concept of slavery in America has engendered a great deal of scholarship. During the four decades following reconstruction, despite the hopes of the liberals in the North, the position of the Negro in America declined.

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Neo-Aristotelian analysis of Jane Fonda's feminist rhetoric

In September 2005, Jane Fonda gave the keynote speech, entitled "The New Feminism: Reuniting the Head, the Heart & the Body," at Women & Power, a three-day conference hosted by the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, an organization oriented towards "focusing on health and wellness, spiritual…

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Plato and Aristotle's conceptions of justice and virtue

The most capacious account of Plato's established philosophical views has been published in "The Republic" as a comprehensive handling of the most basic values for the behavior of human life.

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Marx and Engels' contributions to sociological theory and methodology

Karl Marx was one of those who finished classic political economy theory and who left his influence in the development of economical thought. But his ideas were not limited by the margins of economical problems; they correlated with philosophical, sociological and political questions of that time.

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Bilingual education programs for English language learners

The terminology "Bilingual education" has precise and broad connotation relating to children who are not familiar with English.

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Defoe's Roxana as a tragic figure of social aspiration

"Roxana" stands unique among Daniel Defoe's work in that it ends a tragedy. The work is a lot more than that, however. "Roxana" dispenses with the formalities associated with many texts and paints sex as a commodity from the very get-go.

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