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Women's rights and health issues in Ethiopia

The mortality rate among Ethiopian mothers is extremely high party because of food taboos observed among pregnant women, poverty, early marriage and birth complications of female genital mutilation or FGM, especially infibulation.

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The concept of freedom and the justification of social order

The concept of freedom underlies and motivates all ideologies, doctrines and dogmas of human progress and the objective of social organization and political institutions (Roy 1990).

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Evaluating Erik Luna's overcriminalization argument against animal cruelty laws

Some modern scholars make a strong argument that there has been an overcriminalization of immoral behavior in modern U.S. society. To support their arguments, these scholars point out that there has been an increasing trend to criminalize victimless immoral behavior.

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Don't ask, don't tell" policy and military sexual orientation discrimination"

Ask, Don't Tell" policy of the United States Military has been one of the most acrimonious and highly debated issues in the history of the country. The policy, which was introduced during the presidential administration of former President Bill Clinton, restricted U.S.

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Judicial discretion in criminal sentencing and its limitations

Judges are viewed as idealistic symbols empowered with the power and authority to affect significant change in an individual's life.

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Los Angeles segregation: privilege, racism, and the film "Crash"

Los Angeles -- a City Segregated by Privilege? Or by Racism? The City of Los Angeles has been -- and probably will always be -- a place of interest, controversy, and even fascination for the rest of the country.

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Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" and global governance discourse analysis

Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" is less a discussion of global governance and more a discussion about the discussion -- a Foucauldian analysis that attempts to be circumspect by first rooting out the causes of the discussion.

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Mbuti hunting and subsistence practices in the Ituri forest

The Mbuti society of central Africa is a sub-category of an ethnic group known to Westerners as "African Pygmies." Since the colonization of Africa by Europeans several centuries ago, the Pygmies have taken root in the Western imagination as a mysterious tribe of tiny, uncivilized forest-dwellers.

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Goatse Security's exposure of the Apple iPad AT&T breach

Discuss Goatse Security firm possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T's Website.

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Technology and robotics in assisted living facilities for seniors

Humanity today has made great progress in terms of not only computer and communication technology, but also in terms of biomedical technology. For this reason, many people today live much longer than was the case a century ago, or even as recently as 50 years ago.

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