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Disease and the collapse of indigenous civilizations in Latin America

Why did the native populations, such as the Incas and the Aztecs, appear to be, not equals to be met with military and diplomatic force, but as victims born to die in the eyes of the invading European powers?

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Ian McEwan's Atonement: false reality and redemption through imagination

Nominated for the 2001 Booker prize for fiction and listed as one of the All-Time 100 Greatest Novels, British author Ian McEwan's novel Atonement asks the reader to enter the recent past and understand how simple events can actually have large, life-changing consequences and a domino effect upon…

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The gamelan ensemble: Indonesian musical tradition and cultural identity

Overview- The gamelan is a traditional musical ensemble from Java and Bali, islands in the Indonesian chain. In the Javanese language, the word meaning bronze instrument.

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Marsh & McLennan's response to fraud allegations and leadership reform

"Staggered" by accusations that it cheated its customers, Marsh & McLenan Companies, "the world's biggest broker of commercial insurance," released a statement on November 9, 2001 that it was going to be forced to lay off 3,000 employees in the coming months.

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Ralph Ellison's engagement with blues music and African American cultural expression

Biographer Lawrence Jackson wrote that author Ralph Ellison was exposed to the blues and classical music from an early age, eventually playing the trumpet and pursuing a degree in music at Tuskegee (McLaren Pp).

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Plagiarism policies at the University of Delaware and West Virginia University

Technology has brought the modern world into a position of overwhelming information availability. The ability to work in a word processing program, alone has significantly reduced the amount of time needed to produce equivalent document as one written just 40 years ago.

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The internet's effects on education, employment, and leisure

The Internet is the most useful invention of our generation. The accumulated effects of the Internet include significant contributions in the areas of education, the creation of jobs and furthering of professions, and an exponential increase in the amount and variety of entertainment for leisure…

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Generational conflict in Network and television industry transformation

Directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky, 1976's Network provided one of the most cutting satires of television and American media culture to be produced in the twentieth-century, and its themes continue to resonate to this day.

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Matriarchy and matrilineal kinship structures in southwestern China and Taiwan

Kinship in Chinese Culture and Matriarchy (Dominance of Women) among Chinese Families: Case Studies in Southwestern China and Taiwan

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Pornography's links to sexual addiction, violence, and crime

Pornography is defined as written, graphic, or other forms of communication intended to excite lascivious feelings. However, this definition is very subjective as a person must decide what is considered pornographic to themselves.

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