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Revolving door regulation and the limits of legislative reform

Since the days of early Rome, representative government has been both terribly confounded by and greatly enhanced by the ease with which former policy-makers can continue to exert influence on political affairs even after their removal from political office.

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The Port Arthur massacre and Australian federalism's response to gun control

Gun Violence in Australia & its impact on federalism & coordinated gun control policy. Gun violence yielding en masse public murders in Australia have provoked the question of whether laws governing guns are too lenient or perhaps have enabled the dangers arising from unregistered firearms.

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Colonialism in The Tempest and Season of Migration to the North

Both William Shakespeare's play The Tempest and Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North deal with the cultural tensions arising as a result of colonialism, albeit in different historical moments and from different sides of the colonizer-colonized relationship.

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Zygmunt Bauman's analysis of the Holocaust and modern society

The writings of Zygmunt Bauman have had an extremely important influence on many disciplines, and especially on the development of contemporary sociology.

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Mollie Orshansky's poverty level definition and its modern limitations

Bell, Carolyn Shaw. (1995). What is Poverty? The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 54(2) 161-173.

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Methodological approaches in social epidemiology: quantitative and qualitative research design

Describe quantitative/positivist and qualitative/interpretevist methodological approaches; include examples of their research methods of data collection.

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Rhythm's influence on pastoral care and counseling throughout history

Kevin Massey observes that "ritual has a profound capacity to provide pastoral care…Gesture and action in ritual deliver spiritual support in ways that can provide hope and healing" (4).

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Response surface Monte Carlo method for long-span bridge aerostatic reliability

Su, Luo & Yun (2010) performed an aerostatic reliability of bridges with long spans.

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Geolocation technology privacy concerns and consumer protection

Innovations in technology have fundamentally altered the manner in which consumers, businesses and governments alike transact business in recent years, and the efficiencies these technologies provide have been responsible for increased international commerce and improvements in quality of life…

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The grammar of intrasentential code switching and multilingual language contact

Code Switching -- How many grammars? According to Winford (2003:2) "Whenever people speaking different languages come into contact, there is a natural tendency for them to seek ways of bypassing the communicative barriers facing them by seeking compromise between their forms of speech." While these…

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