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Australia and Canada: Geographic, climatic, and cultural comparisons

Australia vs. Canada: Two vast nations, vast differences, and similar languages and conflicts Their specious, surface images in the international public eye could not be more diverse.

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Gandhi's religion and nonviolence in the Indian independence movement

Gandhi's perception of his religion and civilization and how these perceptions in turn led to his triumph over the British Empire and later to the independence of India. It will also take into account significant figures such as Nehru and Jinnah when analyzing certain aspects of Gandhi's decisions.

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The original meaning of fascism and its modern misuse

Fascism has become in our modern time something of a pejorative term for any authoritarian or totalitarian principle.

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Miss Nunn and Miss Bennett debate women's independence and marriage

Dialogue: a debate between Miss Nunn and Miss Bennett on the nature of love, marriage and courtship Both Miss Nunn and Miss Bennett were inclined to enjoy a long and hearty walk, even under the weight of compulsion.

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Susan B. Anthony's role in organizing the women's rights movement

Susan B. Anthony was foundational member of the women's rights movement. Though the vote was the first of almost all essential changes in the way women were viewed socially and legally the vote was only the beginning. Susan B.

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Language and class transformation in Shaw's Pygmalion

It is difficult to fully appreciate the radical use of dialect and language for a modern American, when reading Shaw's play "Pygmalion." However, Sally Reynolds' essay upon "A New Speech," from her longer text on Shaw entitled Pygmalion's Wordplay provides a window of insight into what she calls…

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No Child Left Behind and educational equity for diverse learners

America is facing an educational crisis, however the 2001 no child left behind policy did wonders for education because it made children from all different backgrounds receive a good education.

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Realism and moral ambiguity in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest

So, a realist style, you say? How to convey a sense of realism? Use short sentences. Terse dialogue. Deploy words that are direct in their meaning. Don't be stingy with the slang and other types of common and prosaic language.

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Edmund S. Morgan's biography of Benjamin Franklin

Morgan presents an intimate and personal picture of a man who would forever shape the future of the United States of America.

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The philosophical origins and political struggles of the U.S. Constitution

The Constitution is such a fixture in American political life and rhetoric it seems as if it has always existed, as if it sprung from the founding father's brains like Athena from the head of Zeus.

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