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The Hermes Birkin bag diffusion of innovations among adopter categories

The Hermes Birkin bag, named after the British film actress Jane Birkin when she worked with the CEO of Hermes to design the "perfect hand bag," was introduced in 1984 (The History Behind The Birkin Bag, 2011, The Brand International).

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Female genital mutilation in Ethiopia as a human rights violation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a common phenomenon in Ethiopia, which has the highest rate of FGM among African countries, despite international and national efforts to eliminate the phenomenon.

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Sartrean alienation and identity loss in Philip Roth's American Pastoral

The novel "The American Pastoral" by Philip Roth represents an important literary work that basis its construction on elements of literary existentialism through the way in which characters and their universe are created.

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Scholarly perspectives on family structure and child outcomes in non-traditional families

The two scholarly articles critiqued in this paper bring very different perspectives into view. They offer very different conclusions. And yet they are linked in the sense that they investigate and evaluate family success vs. family failure vis-a-vis the raising of children.

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Group structure and organizational theory in Calprig

Whether formal, every group has a structure regardless of the nature of their activity or the length of time they have been together (Freeman, 1970).

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Social policy's effects on individuals and society

Social policy is a rather vague term because the word 'social' can have different meanings for different people (Human Services 311, p. 1). Social policies, in and of themselves, affect individuals at different stages in their lives.

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Federal housing policies and the 2008 financial crisis

The Standard and Poors Index was over 1,500 and unemployment was below 5%. There was essentially no inflation. These were all good numbers and normally indicative of a health economy (Bloomberg Business Week).

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The international political order and the problem of global anarchy

Discuss. Similar to all politics, international politics is basically about conflict management and the re-creation of the community. The nature of such politics is more than the combination of 18,000 possible mutual relationships between the 192 states across the globe today.

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Theft and plagiarism as forms of deviance in modern society

Deviance is all over society -- from the minor etiquette breaches that engender frowns or gossip to behaviors that require legal or psychological interference.

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The evolution of autonomy in Whitman, Kant, and Aristotle's philosophy

Within the conceptual framework of traditional philosophy, it is indeed very difficult to understand how freedom and non-sovereignty can exist together…Actually it is as unrealistic to deny freedom because of the fact of human non-sovereignty as it is dangerous to believe that once can be free…as…

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