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Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the American founding documents

Common Sense was a pamphlet first published anonymously in January 1776, but written by Thomas Paine. Immediately, it was a huge success and actually has the honor of having the largest circulation (and sales) of any historical book about America (Paine intro).

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Citizen participation and motivations in U.S. elections

Citizens of a country will participate in the electoral process in different ways. This will have an impact upon their political views and the levels of involvement in various elections.

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Family loss and marriage prospects in Abigail Adams' later years

Chapter 32 recounts some tough years for Abigail's family. The chapter is rife with deaths -- first Ann's child, then Louisa and John Quincy's, and finally Nabby.

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The USA PATRIOT Act: anti-terrorism legislation and civil liberties concerns

The USA Patriot Act which is officially known as Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act was quickly developed as anti-terrorism legislation in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Cultural transmission and tribal identity in Kenya

Culture is "a society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions" (Chapter 2, p.25). Culture is how people make sense of human experiences and behavior. Culture is also the way that individuals make sense of themselves and others. Above all, culture is shared.

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Debunking the charisma requirement in effective leadership

At certain points in my life I have had a tendency to place certain figures of authority on mental pedestals, esteeming them beyond what their actual qualities and actions warranted.

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Organizational change strategies: tuning, adaptation, reorientation, and re-creation

The intent of this analysis is to evaluate the organizational change strategies of turning, adaption, reorientation and re-creation.

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Gabriel Conroy and the wasteland: identity and death in Joyce

Prototypical Man of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland": Gabriel Conroy in James Joyce's "The Dead" James Joyce's short stories are full of meaning on many levels; history, religion, and contemporary literature all found their way into his stories in both literal and symbolic ways.

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Rest and recuperation leave effects on soldier morale during deployment

The focus of this work in writing is the examination of the difference between that soldier that takes rest and recuperation (R&R) and a soldier that does not take rest and recuperation (R&R) and specifically the effect upon the soldier's morale during work duty. It is reported in a U.S.

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Common characteristics of villains in early mythology

The Common Characteristics of Villainy: An Examination of Dastardly Traits from Early Mythology There are many wildly different sets of mythologies and individual myths in existence today; every human culture has some set of fundamental beliefs that is largely dependent on a common mythology.

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