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Romantic tension and political intrigue in Casablanca

Michael Curtiz's 1943 film Casablanca depicts a doomed love affair set amid an equally volatile political landscape. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) lives in Casablanca; the reasons for his expatriation are never entirely clear.

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Oliver North's role in the Iran-Contra affair

The Iran-Contra Affair created a global fiasco that stained the reputation of the Reagan administration. Although the affair reflected poorly on the President, no one emerged as much a celebrity villain as Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North.

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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug" and American Romanticism

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Gold-Bug" encapsulates the era of Romanticism in American literature. The short story boasts some of the thematic elements for which Poe is famous for such as mental instability, social isolation, and death.

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NAFTA's economic impact on United States trade and consumers

Despite the fact that NAFTA was passed under the leadership of a Democratic president, it became a contentious issue in the race for the Democratic primary of 2010: Barak Obama said he opposed the basic principles of NAFTA, while Hillary Clinton supported them.

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Strategies for successfully cohabiting with a romantic partner

Living with someone you love -- and not wanting to kill them afterwards! Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus. He's just not that into you.

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The case for and against continued deep-space exploration

In April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama announced his intention to support continued space exploration as a fundamentally valuable human endeavor.

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Standardization and the future of e-learning technologies

With new technologies emerging on the marketplace regularly, e-learning has become a dynamic and complex field. In fact, e-learning can no longer be treated as a separate entity in education.

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Ethical concerns and policy approaches in modern organ transplantation

Organ transplantation was one of the most important goals of physicians around the turn of the 20th century, especially after the first successful transplant of a cornea in 1905.

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Using the Keirsey temperament test to develop personal leadership beliefs

Teamwork is an essential aspect of optimizing organizational performance. According to the Keirsey Temperament test, I have an intuitive ability to facilitate teamwork and create a team atmosphere that can optimize organizational performance.

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Bonnie Duldt's humanistic nursing communication theory and its applications

Bonnie Duldt's humanistic nursing communication theory is unique in the manner in which it emphasizes academic philosophy: specifically it is derived from schools of humanistic and existential philosophy.

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