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UK welfare benefits and teenage pregnancy: policy impacts on young mothers

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Male homosexuality in Japanese popular culture and identity

In "Is There a Japanese Gay Identity?" Mark McLelland (2000) examines the depiction of male homosexuality in Japanese popular culture, focusing on modern and postmodern (twentieth and twenty-first century) manifestations.

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Diversification strategy for Earthlink's regional telecommunications growth

Deltacom/Earthlink is facing a challenging operating environment. As a regional player in an intensely-competitive market, we face an uncertain future.

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Immigration's impact on Vancouver and Toronto's demographic and economic development

Canada is, by any measure, an immigrant country. Yet it recent years two trends have combined to cause stress on the fabric of Canadian society. A fault line has opened up between new Canadians who have recently arrived and those who have longer roots in the country.

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NikeID's role in strengthening customer loyalty and the Nike brand

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Prejudice and institutionalized racism in African American autobiographical essays

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Rising homelessness in the United States and affordable housing shortage

Is homelessness increasing in the United States? Homelessness has become progressively more apparent in the United States over the past quarter century. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has amassed a wealth of data that confirm low-income housing is a critical requirement.

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Legal enforcement of sexual morality in marriage equality debates

While it is a little sad that some states remain set against fully offering the choice of marriage to all who would love another person, regardless of gender, an increasing number of states have become sufficiently open to offer full equality of marriage.

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Courbet's "The Meeting": artistic independence and spatial freedom

Gustave Courbet, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 1854. The world of art includes a picture in a location, someplace in either fictional or real universe. It is usually a view framing a section of space, and occupies an elaborate ground. It forms a vicinity; a scene with entrance and exit.

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Revolutionary politics and nostalgia in British and German Romanticism

The Romantic Movement has become part of our cultural consciousness to such a degree that its assumptions regarding the centrality of the individual, its elegiac idealization of the pastoral, and its belief in human spirituality that could not be understood with pure rationality have become…

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