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The Freedom Riders' impact on civil rights and American society

Freedom Riders Honored; Katie Feldhaus (2011) talks about the impact that Freedom Riders would have on the Civil Rights Movement. These were students and various individuals who were opposed to the Jim Crow laws in the South.

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Historical ecology and understanding human-biosphere relationships

ecological approaches provide a strong perspective to understanding complex relationships between humans & the biosphere?

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Perfect competition and the evolution of Apple's iPod market strategy

Over the last several decades, the term perfect competition has been loosely thrown around by: economists and scholars. Simply put, this is when there is a fine equilibrium between the different competitors inside an industry.

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Vicarious liability in criminal and tort law

In tort law, vicarious liability refers to the legal doctrine "that imposes responsibility upon one person for the failure of another, with whom the person has a special relationship (such as parent and child, employer and employee, or owner of vehicle and driver), to exercise such care as a…

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Constitutional and legal concerns in TSA airport screening procedures

Security screening has become a nightmare to most passengers. It was Duncan, the Republican representative who pointed out the lucrative government contracts in TSA's new naked body scanning machines. The body scanners at the airports are a source of high doses of radiation.

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Queerness in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Pineapple Express

In spite of the apparent heterosexual general character in Howard Hawks' 1953 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and in David Gordon Green's 2008's Pineapple Express, the two motion pictures actually put across queer concepts through the fact that the central characters need each-other in a non-sexual way.

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Enforcement challenges and the legal status of international law

International law that is defined as the body of law that is used to effectively govern the legal relationship among or between sovereign states and nations has attracted a protracted debate on whether it is really law.

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Definitions and characteristics of organizational culture in the workplace

Whenever people from different backgrounds with different beliefs, values, and norms converge as a group, a new culture is created that gives the group a distinct characteristic and dynamic.

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Consumer welfare in sports betting exchanges versus traditional bookmakers

Proponents of the sports betting industry argue that the industry is good for sport and good for consumers.

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Negative advertising strategies in the 1992 presidential campaign

Bush apparently opened the floodgates for negative campaigning in his first presidential campaign in 1988 -- the Bush I team was so good at being bad that he became sort of a "poster child of effective attack politics" (Lau, Sigelman and Rovener, 2007, p. 1176) for negative campaign ads.

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