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K-9 history, training, and law enforcement effectiveness

"K-9 History: The Dogs of War!" states that throughout warfare history "from the days of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Persians and the conquests of the Roman Empire.

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Diversity training and police department implementation

Diversity is a term that was coined to denote the multicultural and heterogeneous communities that now make up the population of the United States. Today representations from all over the globe can be found in the U.S. with emigrants as far as Japan, to near by West Indies.

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Colonial discourse and sexual anxiety in *A Passage to India*

Are you married Dr. Aziz?" With this innocent question, a tragedy is instigated in a Passage to India. Novelist E.M. Forster shows how the naive and virginal heroine Adele projects her sexual insecurities upon the persona of a fellow human being she sees as alien to her own culture.

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Effects of bilingualism on language attitudes in America

BILINGUALISM in the U.S. During 2008 in America, the movement for bilingualism, no matter its intent in theory, in practice, some individuals, as Kimball contends in "Institutionalizing Our Demise: America vs.

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Colonialism and European expansion in Shakespeare's The Tempest

Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's later plays which was probably written between 1610 and 1611.

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Francis Libermann and the French School of Catholic spirituality

Western Catholicism takes pride in the fact that it has a large number of special schools dedicated to the understanding of Christianity and each had something different to offer.

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Biblical imagery and revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Shakespeare most often based his plays on a real or imagined person or event in history, which made a good "story" because of a fatal flaw or interesting twist of fate. Yet, especially in some plays, there are an also a number of elements and allusions that refer to the Old or New Testament.

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The Treaty of Waitangi: origins and historical context

Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand. The name "Waitangi" refers to the place where it was officially signed - on the Bay of Islands - on the 6th of February 1840.

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French Canadian culture and Quebec's cultural identity

Quebec stands for both the French province of Canada as well as the capital city of the region. Referred to as the New France, the region was an impressively successful colony to conduct fur trade operations; during the reign of Louis XIV it was transformed into a royal colony.

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Alignment of ELL proficiency standards with Arizona language arts standards

The ELL Proficiency Standards are proficiency or performance standards. They are not content standards.

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