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Is anxiety a product of modern culture or mental disorder?

Sometimes it seems like to live even an ordinary life, in today's day and age, is to live in a state of perpetual anxiety.

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Drug testing in public schools and constitutional rights

The Supreme Court has upheld drug testing in schools as legal and permissible, especially among school athletes.

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Managing consumer concerns about genetically modified food ingredients

The objective of this work is to critically review at least six sources of literature related to food biotechnology which contain arguments against the use of food biotechnology and to then summarize the key concerns and arguments and construct an Issues Management Plan which outlines how a food…

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Historian bias in interpretations of early Canadian colonial encounters

The three articles: Ramsay Cook, "1942 and All That: Making a Garden out of Wilderness"; Alan Gordon, "Heroes, History, and Two Nationalisms: Jacques Cartier" and Ken Coates and William Morrison, "Winter and the Shaping of Northern History: Reflections from the Canadian North" have several…

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Vinikas's critique of Capeci's account of Cleo Wright's lynching

Vincent Vinikas' review of Dominic J. Capeci's The Lynching of Cleo Wright takes a critical stance toward Capeci's account of the case of Cleo Wright, a black man who was lynched in Missouri in 1942.

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Police ethics training and improving public trust in law enforcement

Many people have are afraid of the police, and some would even argue they are afraid for good reason. Indeed, sensationalized and high-profile accounts of police brutality, corruption, sex scandals, malfeasance and abuse of power in the mainstream media have fueled this mindset in recent years.

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Arguments for abolishing public school teacher tenure protections

Virtually all employees within the job market today are employed 'at will' -- in other words, they can be fired at any time. This principle of the capitalist economy is supposed to increase the pressure upon employees to perform to a high standard.

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Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War and emancipation

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. From these humble beginnings the first born son of Thomas, an uneducated farmer, and Nancy Hanks, Lincoln would grow to become the 16th President of the United States.

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Emotional intelligence and team effectiveness: Clarke's unified model

Nicholas Clarke, aimed at establishing a correlation between Emotional intelligence and behaviors of individuals during teamwork. In this study, specific stress has been levied on transition, action and interpersonal team processes.

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The evolution of private finance initiatives in the United Kingdom

When the Private Finance Initiative was launched in 1992, it was seen as a mechanism to achieve extra public-sector investment by bringing in private finance for capital projects as well as a means to improve the public procurement process that was routinely criticized for poor project management…

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