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The right to bear arms and responsible gun regulation in America

Gun control became an issue for Americans in the 1960s when President Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, all with guns. People began to demand that the government do something to stop the spread of guns and murder (Ruhl, Rizer, & Wier, 2003/2004).

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of Her Own": war, feminism, and identity

"[a]s a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world" -Virginia Woolf

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The motif of doom in Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and fiction

Were all the literary works of Nathaniel Hawthorne compiled into a single manuscript, then appropriately filtered to include only works of prose and fiction, and if an attempt were then made to uncover a single motif spanning through the vast majority of the remaining text, it would read something…

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Leporello as moral conscience in Mozart's Don Giovanni

Background- Don Juan, or Don Giovanni in Italian, is a fictional character that begins to appear in poetry and literature in the early 1600s. The legend, though, is both timeless and archetypal. Don Juan is the classic libertine -- he enjoys seducing young virgins and fighting their men.

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Gender inequality in Canadian women's healthcare access

This is particularly true when it comes to women's healthcare, an issue which has already received inadequate attention and support even before one factors in other elements that make access to that healthcare more difficult.

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C.S. Lewis's claim that Christianity could not have been guessed

Christianity has assumed an absolutely encompassing place in world history and culture. Its influence has spread across kingdoms, influenced forms of government and even functioned as the ideological basis for emergent state constitutions.

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Designing an ESL curriculum through vocabulary acquisition research

Learning a new language is among the most confounding of challenges to those entering into new countries of school systems. In addition to the conceptual and practical challenges that impact this process, there are considerable cultural and structural obstacles that the learner must face.

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John Stuart Mill's contributions to utilitarianism and liberty

The 19th century witnessed the contributions of many philosophers, and one of the leading among them was J.S. Mill. His place of birth was London in the year 1806 and as a child was more intelligent than his age.

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GAAP revenue and expense recognition guidelines for Legal Plan Services

GAAP is a set of specific common guidelines, provided by the institutions such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Securities and Exchange Commission, about "acceptable accounting practices"

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High school sports and character development: a critical examination

High School Sports: is the Character they Build Bad? Imagine if you will, dear reader, that a strappingly built British fellow were to appear before your school board. He has a brilliant, if rather odd, proposal to make.

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