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Technology and social division in Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Metropolis: Does improvements in technology better our lives or do they divide us as a species? In modernity, who controls the future -- humans or machines?

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Susan Faludi's Backlash: media, the New Right, and women's political losses

Susan Faludi's 1990s feminist classic Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women chronicles the widespread cultural resistance that arose to the gains women had made during the feminist liberation movement of the 1970s.

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U.S. failure to protect gay and lesbian Iraqis from torture

The United States has always presented itself as a model of fairness and equality.

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Realist, liberal, and Marxist perspectives on international political economy

The current international order is in a state of flux. As economics becomes ever more global in scale, nation states struggle to maintain their independent powers and spheres of influence.

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Newton's mechanistic worldview and the rise of deism

How exactly is the movement known as "Deism" motivated by the scientific discoveries of Isaac Newton? That is, precisely what aspects of Newton's mechanistic worldview offer support to advocates of Deism?

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Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: symptoms, causes, and spectrum manifestations

Despite the fact that autism is being diagnosed with increased frequency across America and the world, the condition remains in many ways a mysterious disorder, little-understood both by scientists and the general populace.

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Andrew Jackson and the forced removal of Native Americans

Andrew Jackson has the dubious honor of being the president who played the most active role in the political and military actions needed to ensure the removal of the Native Americans from their ancestral lands to those the government and its people chose for them.

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Securitization, mortgage lending, and the 2008 financial crisis

The objective of this work is to examine securitization and how it is currently used in the banking industry with a focus on real estate and the current problems banks are facing recently regarding mortgages and how that banks lend easy money to anyone and then are unable to recover the money.

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Origins of rap music in African and African-American traditions

The emergence of Rap music as an accepted mode of cultural expression has only been recognized by academic commentary in the last twenty years. "Twenty years after its genesis, Rap poetry remains a vastly popular art-form across the continent and around the world" (Ramsey 165).

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Post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Introduction number of studies and other researches have yielded findings that many or most combat or war veterans who return home from the battlefield develop Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. The disorder consists in reliving the memories of war, which a veteran re-enacts.

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