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Financial oligarchy and institutional decay in the United States

In "The Quiet Coup," Simon Johnson draws remarkable and shocking parallels between the United States and emerging market economies.

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Critical examination of ethical criticism in marketing and branding practices

There has been significant criticism leveled against the branding practices of companies, and most particularly those of multinationals, which have been raised.

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Religious hypocrisy and mob mentality in Hawthorne and Jackson

Literature is frequently employed as a device for social and political commentary. This is certainly true in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Both these stories darkly satirize the rigid social conventions that define small town American life.

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Unintended consequences of legislating morality in America

The desire to legislate morality is well established in American history. Our forefather's passed legislation to prohibit acts that they felt might induce people to behave in a socially unacceptable manner.

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Ted Gup's "The Secret Gift": Depression-era philanthropy and human dignity

In 1933, the town of Canton, Ohio had plunged into abject poverty. Its residents were suffering a kind of privation that makes the recent recession look mild. Children did not know the meaning of breakfast. People patched their shoes with old tires.

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Legal right to assisted suicide and medical dignity

Assisted suicide should be a legal right. The grounds for this claim include the fact that modern medicine has made it possible to extend life artificially, allowing for people to survive beyond their body's capacity for wellness.

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Community-oriented policing and street-level drug trafficking in New York

The high rates of individuals who are arrested, on probation, incarcerated, or on parole throughout our nation have led some critical criminologists to advocate for the decriminalization of so-called victimless crimes.

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Case formulation for Salomon: a clinical assessment and care plan

Salomon has clearly evidenced educational and emotional problems at least since the 6th grade; however, this 9th grader has apparently neither been thoroughly physically and psychiatrically evaluated, nor received an Individual Education Plan, evincing a stunning level of neglect by his educators,…

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Canadian public policy on ADHD inclusion in special education

It has been estimated that almost five percent of School aged children out of population of 2.1 Million in Ontario are suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

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Major depressive disorder in a case study of Tina

There is a considerable of variation in the occurrence of MDD among U.S. youth as reported by research studies on depression in adolescents. Fleming and Offord (1990) conducted a critical review and found that currently the occurrence depression ranges from .4-5.7%, with a mean occurrence of 3.6%.

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