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Discrimination and political representation of Latinos in Los Angeles

Given that nearly one half of Los Angeles County's population is Latino, it would seem that such a large portion of the population would translate into political and social power. To a degree that is true.

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Walmart, the WTO, and global economic inequality

The concept of a global community has become one of the defining features of our shared economy.

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The concept of self in Rogers, Freud, and Jung

The concept of self is one of the major themes of personality studies. Personality can be defined as the totality of the behavior and emotional characteristics of an individual.

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Jung's theory of individuation, the collective unconscious, and archetypes

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology in the early 20th century, has had a lasting influence on the field. His exploration of the human psyche led him to connect psychology to art, religion, folklore, sociology, and philosophy.

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Claude Debussy's life, influences, and early compositions

During the period in which Claude Achille Debussy lived, the musicians and writers were influenced by some of the academic institutions of their times in their compositions.

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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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