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The war on drugs: financial and social costs of a failed policy

Opening facts and statistics to grab the reader's attention. Development of main ideas, leading to thesis. The war on drugs must be stopped for two main reasons: the financial costs, and the social costs.

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Social identity and human agency in Beckett and Nabokov

The human is not a self-sufficient entity, but is built through social conventions. This notion reveals itself in the transitional postmodern works by Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov -- specifically, in Lolita and Waiting for Godot.

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Identifying human trafficking victims for healthcare and social service intervention

Quite often, victims are not forthcoming about their situation and it is the social worker, not the victim, that must initiate the necessary proceedings to ensure that justice is done.

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Religious rhetoric and propaganda in "A Common Word Between U.S. and You"

The critical analysis of the aforementioned work, A COMMON WORD BETWEEN U.S. AND YOU offers highly charged rhetoric to the audience.

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WiMAX networks as economic accelerators for metropolitan communities

The potential for Metropolitan-based Wi-Fi and WiMAX to transform entire communities and the companies who operate within them is very significant.

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Evolutionary psychology and mate selection in human behavior

What is evolutionary psychology? How does it explain mate selection? Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an advance that looks at psychological traits such as memory, perception and language for a contemporary evolutionary perspective in regards to social and natural sciences.

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Singapore's low fertility rate and psychological reactance to government incentives

The total fertility rate in Singapore has declined to a record low of 1.22 in 2009 and 1.16 in 2010 from 1.28 in 2008. The problem of the low fertility rate is common across the three major ethnic groups in the country.

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Compliance, obedience, and conformity: mechanisms of social influence

Social influence is believed to occur when an individual's emotions, behaviors, or opinions are influenced by others'. Compliance, identification, internalization are the three broad varieties of social influence that have since been identified.

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Six Sigma adoption in services and healthcare industries

The value of Six Sigma has been readily and thoroughly proven throughout all manufacturing industries and continues to be the foundation of supply chain, sourcing, production and post-sales support performance improvements.

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Biological weapons development and proliferation in United States history

The 'art' and methods of war have indeed gone a long way; from subsisting to crude metals and guns, human society has learned to manipulate Nature by using as one of its weapons of mass destruction organisms that create balance within the planet's ecosystem.

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