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Early African American history and the Atlantic slave trade

Black Africans helped the Portuguese and the Spanish when they were on their exploration of the America.

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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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Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetorical stance in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated four decades after his death because he was an effective and persuasive civil rights advocate. A holiday marks the birthday of Doctor King because of what he accomplished using nonviolent civil disobedience in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi.

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The golden ratio in mathematics, geometry, and classical architecture

The golden ratio is acknowledged as the divine proportion golden mean, or golden section is represented as a number mostly confronted while considering the ratios of distances in simple geometric diagrams like pentagram, decagon and dodecagon. It is indicated by the symbol 'phi'.

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Normandi Ellis's translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a western title for an ancient collection of Egyptian manuscripts, the majority of which were funerary in nature. These collected writings have also been referred to as the Egyptian Bible or identified by the names of the scribes who penned them.

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Computer use and student achievement in classroom instruction

When we talk about education and classrooms, we should first remember how the process of education started.

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The assumptions, principles, and constraints underlying GAAP

Accounting rules are designed to serve the capital markets and make these markets work efficiently.

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Plato's tripartite soul theory in the Republic

The Republic is an influential dialogue by Plato, written in the first half of the 4th century BC. This Socratic dialogue mainly concerns political philosophy and ethics. The political ideas are clarified by picturing a utopia.

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Colonial resistance and cultural collapse in Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and his father was a teacher in a missionary school.

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