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Woolf's argument for women writers' economic independence in literature

Woolf on the Economics of Gender Inequality The seeds of gender equality, however elusive such a thing may continue to be, were surely planted by the frustration of women confined to the roles crafted by longstanding patriarchy.

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The ontological argument for the existence of God

An Ontological Argument for the Existence of God 1. Introduction As the epigraph makes clear, one of the irrefutable facts about the history of humankind has been the existence of various types of religions since time immemorial.

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Thomas Goetz's argument about technology's paradoxical role in healthcare costs

According to Thomas Goetz, the executive editor at Wired Magazine, the current national debate over healthcare reform is missing a critical point that is driving up costs: technology.

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Gary Nash's argument about race in the American Revolution

Nash, Gary. (1990). Race and the Revolution. New York: Madison House Publishers, Inc.

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Challenges and benefits of peer group collaboration on essay writing

Working with a group of my peers has proved challenging in a number of ways. While we all got along, it was nearly impossible to agree on meeting times because everyone's schedule is erratic and different from everyone else's.

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Granatstein and Morton's argument that the Second World War benefited Canada

War Changed Everything," authors J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton argue that the Second World War benefited Canada and Canadian society.

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Carl Schramm's argument that entrepreneurship, not social entrepreneurship, improves lives

Entrepreneurship is Social by Carl Schramm argues the point that the idea of "social entrepreneurship" is a distraction from the great work that normal entrepreneurs do. Stripped from the straw man framing, his point is that business does good things, and we should not lose sight of that.

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Peter Singer's moral argument for charitable obligation to the poor

Peter Singer's principle goal of "Famine, Affluence and Morality" is to get members of society to alter their contemporary conceptions of morality. His primary means of achieving this goal is to get people to rethink the notion of giving charity to those in need.

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Marie Winn's argument on television's negative impact on families

According to some researchers, this is exactly the case. Marie Winn's article "Television: the Plug-In Drug" was published originally in 1977 and updated in 2002. At that time, televisions had been in homes for about three decades and the color television was taking hold.

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Kant's refutation of the ontological argument for God's existence

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant set out a framework intended to refute the ontological argument. It is said that the critique was directed at Descartes and Leibniz.

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