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Equality Now's global advocacy against women's rights violations

Equal rights have begun to play an increasingly important role in the globalized and information-rich world of today. No longer can communities isolate themselves or make their own rules for existence.

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The Socratic method in modern organizational ethics

With many organizations, the way to ensure ethical decision making has been to introduce a new code of conduct that reflects the present world and its business challenges.

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Abstinence education and teenage pregnancy decline in Georgia

The high rate of teenage pregnancies and births in the United States, and Georgia in particular, has shown some dramatic declines in the past fifteen years.

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The emergence of American lesbian identity from the 1950s onward

Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of a natural given power which tries to hold in check, or as an obscure domain which knowledge tries gradually to uncover. It is the name that can be given to a historical construct." (Foucault 1979:105 in Weeks: 16).

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Media complicity in the lead-up to the Iraq War

The war in Iraq was undertaken on the basis of questionable intelligence, and the degree to which it should have been accepted remains controversial.

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The development of nationalism from the French Revolution to modern nation-states

We live in a world that is constantly searching for its identity, one which is made up of state actors, non-state actors, organizations, corporations and leaders.

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Blackwater and private military contractors in the Iraq war

During the course of the war in Iraq, the United States has seen many of its allies remove their troops from Iraq.

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Anwar Sadat's preparation for the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur war can be said to have rooted in the death of Nasser in September 1970 which had taken the Middle East by surprise.

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Haunting and the past in Morrison's Sula and Shyamalan's films

Although she is typically known for her monumental contribution to ethnic literature, Beloved, Toni Morrison has infiltrated the world of contemporary writers with nine shockingly poignant novels that address issues such as conventionalism, racism, and the strong ties to one's past.

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Efficiency and organizational differences between nonprofit and government agencies

As individuals, we often feel the need to know we are being protected, we need safety and security. As children, these roles are taken on by our parents, but simultaneously, they are being protected by the federal institutions.

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