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Divorce effects across racial and ethnic groups

Divorce has been a hot topic as well as the effects that divorce has in various family dynamics especially across ethnic boundaries. However, Studies of divorce among ethnically heterogeneous couples was rare in 1996.

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The green movement's origins, evolution, and future in a consumer society

Green Here to Stay? The "Green Movement" encompasses the ideology of ecology, conservation, environmental concerns, the feminist movement, and peace movement. If it sounds like the hippies of the 1960s grown up, it is probably at least partially true.

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Depression in women: causes, symptoms, and psychological impacts

Psychology in women [...] depression in women as a result of emotional, physical, and mental abuse. Psychologically, women are more likely to suffer from depression than men (Editors).

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The crucial importance of peace in the Middle East

It would not be an exaggeration or alarmist to say that the world today is balanced on a knife-edge. The mainstream media is a daily litany of depressing and ominous news about various danger areas in the world.

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Identity and belonging in Obama's Dreams from My Father and Kingston's The Woman Warrior

Both Barak Obama's memoir Songs for My Father and Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior are tales of a search for a sense of a stable personal identity.

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YUM! Brands Inc.: global restaurant company operations and market position

Executive Summary for YUM Brands, Inc. According to their corporate profile (2007), YUM! Brands, Inc.

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Speech communication course design for teacher education students

The objective of this work is to examine redesign of the current teacher education program at the University of North Dakota. There is interest in developing a speech communication course that would pertain specifically to teacher education students.

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Woodrow Wilson's contradictory policies of neutrality and military intervention

How did Woodrow Wilson exemplify neutrality, expansionism and exceptionalism? "Too proud to fight" juxtaposed with "making the world safe for democracy."

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Benjamin Franklin's contributions as inventor, scientist, and statesman

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to Josiah and Abiah Folger (Kelly 2007, the Electric Benjamin Franklin 2007). He was the 15th of Josiah's 20 children by two marriages. He had only two years of formal schooling but continued to pursue an education by reading.

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Sharia law interpretations of adultery: the case of Amina Lawal

Interpretations of Shariah in relation to adultery and how interpretations of Shariah relates to the case Sharia Law originates from the teachings of the Koran and also from the Sunna which is the practice of Prophet Mohammed is carried out in different extent in various Islamic countries.

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