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Glossolalia in the New Testament: language, translation, and interpretation

Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is a vocalizing (sometimes writing) of speech-like syllables as part of religious fervor or practice. It is controversial, even among the religious; some consider it to be meaningless ramble brought on by a euphoric state, and others part of a holy language.

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Evaluating the SAT's predictive validity and bias claims

Under the helping hands of school counselors, parents, and teachers, more than 1.2 million high school seniors took the Educational Testing Service's SAT in 2008 (Zemelman et al., 2008).

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Religious iconography and propaganda in the Soviet Union

However, long before the communists came to power, the Russian government was a highly repressive regime and already possessed many of the characteristics of Arendt's conception of "a ruthless, brutal, and…potent form of political tyranny whose ambitions for world domination are unlimited.

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Student plagiarism through internet paper-selling websites

One of the first lessons on which college students receive instruction and lecture about is a lesson of integrity: your work must be your own. If a student writes a paper, they must give credit to the originator of any ideas that you incorporate into your work in support of your ideas and theories.

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Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and American food systems

Michael Pollan in 2006, published a work that has to some degree changed the way that people eat, or at the very least attempted to change the way that we think about the food we eat.

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Michelangelo, Raphael, and the architecture of papal supremacy

The traditional world was one of connection and unity. The medieval church represented the intersection of the mundane with the sacred, the coming together of the institutions of humankind with the institutions of God.

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McDonald's and the Americanization of postwar Germany

Prior to World War II, the American economy has generically been an enclosed one and its international trade relations were rather limited.

~17 min read

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Offender profiling in law enforcement: balancing investigative necessity and civil rights

This work will serve as an in-depth view of offender profiling, a technique often used by law enforcement and other security professionals to develop ideas and potential leads about the who, what, when and where of crime.

~24 min read

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Douglas C. North and institutional economics in historical perspective

Economics is a broad subject and economists have applied several methods to arrive at conclusions relating to the economy. Economics has to consider various factors like society and the culture which molded the subject.

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British reluctance to adopt the euro: political and economic factors

This work will discuss the reluctance of the British to join the EU and will relate the historical phase of the project with an extensive focus on the theoretical aspect. This issue will be addressed from the intergovernmental and liberal intergovernmental perspectives.

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