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Causes of increased U.S. prison populations: drugs, sentencing, and racial disparities

The United States has experienced an unprecedented increase in prison populations over the last decade, a trend that began in the 1980's. In just seven years during the last decade, prison populations rose by 58% -- from 1,726.000 to 1.1 million (SW, 1998).

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Ong and Appadurai on global economy and cultural struggle

The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity" by Aihwa Ong and "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Community" by Arjun Appadurai both offer perspectives on the impact of the changing global economy. These two articles will now be analysed in turn.

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Visual design's rhetorical appeal in B2C e-commerce consumer purchase behavior

Consumer Web Site Design: Purchase Intentions and Loyalty in a Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Internet Commerce Environment Electronic commerce has experienced the meteoric rise and subsequent crash of any behemoth entity cast aloft without moorings or foundation.

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Evaluating the logical fallacies in a college funding protest argument

The other 12,000 California State College students evidently weren't so concerned about their education; they either stayed on campus or left for winter break.

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Richard Foster's "Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home"

Richard J. Foster is the author of many best selling books, which includes the most famous "Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living of Water." He is also the founder of Renovare an infrachurch movement that is dedicated to the restoration of the Church in all her comprehensive expressions.

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Personality and motivation in consumer behavior: An HSBC case study

The Role that Personality and Motivation Play in Consumer Behavior: A Case Study of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)

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Freud, Jung, and Maslow: Theories of personality development

One of the earliest theorists of personality development was Sigmund Freud. Freud defined the development of the individual's personality primarily in terms of struggle, loss, and repression -- namely the individual's family romance with the mother that was finally supplanted through a series of…

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Block and Steinbeck's economic and social arguments for drug legalization

It is not that Block and Steinbeck disagree about making drugs legal, but that they disagree about why that should be done. Block's argument is mostly economic in nature, while Steinbeck's argument is much more geared toward the reduction of overcrowding in prisons.

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Pericles' rhetorical strategies and their influence on Athens

"The Art of Rhetoric" makes the point that Pericles had great powers of persuasion, and that he could directly affect the will of the people through his rhetorical strategies.

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Philosophical and scientific approaches to the afterlife question

Is there such a thing as life after death? This is a question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, scientists, and religions for centuries.

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