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Biopsychosocial case study of a domestic violence survivor and trauma recovery

The client is a divorced, 37-year-old Hispanic mother of three girls, aged 11, 9, and 4. She has been employed for almost a decade as an X-ray technician. She is a repeated victim of domestic violence on the part of her ex-husband and of numerous instances of date rape in college.

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Dismantling cultural memes about educational equality in America

The objective of this work is to write a paper which will incorporate the memes concept from Dawkins and the education-funding concept from Kozol and to identify the cultural memes that would have to be altered in order for Kozol's solution to be accepted.

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The Cold War's impact on post-Cold War international relations and world order

The Cold War represented one of the most important periods in the history of the world.

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Selfish genes and sociological behavior in Dawkins' theory

Richard Dawkins' the Selfish Gene and Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Sociobiology uses the Darwinian theory of evolution to understand human social behavior. To do so, sociobiologists make several key assumptions.

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Why UN humanitarian intervention in Somalia has failed

Situated on the horn of Africa, Somalia is a country that has been described as one of the most dangerous and underdeveloped areas on the continent. The country has been immersed in various degrees of violent conflict since its establishment as an independent country.

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The significance of setting in Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes

Sidney Sheldon's novel, if Tomorrow Comes, is largely an adventure book, in which the action and the plot move ahead breathlessly, keeping the suspense up from the beginning to the very end, and even after.

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George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the American Revolution

When most people think of George Washington, they think of his time as the first President of the United States. What they often do not realize, though, is that he did a great deal for the country even before he took the Presidency (Ferling, 2000).

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Remediation technologies for arsenic contamination at Deloro Mine

Deloro is a small town of 180 people located in eastern Ontario. For many years, the residents of this town were unknowingly breathing arsenic contaminated air and drinking contaminated water. Recent legal actions have brought this tiny town to the forefront.

~15 min read

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Azerbaijan's transition to democracy and Western alignment after Soviet rule

At stake were the identities of nation-states whose political and cultural legacies were buried by 70 years of communist rule. Some states like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fared better than Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and American democratic representation

The struggle for civil rights in America was marked throughout its history by numerous important events which in the end achieved the equality that the U.S. Constitution defined in the 18th century. However, it was an uphill battle which demanded sacrifice and continuous activism.

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