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APA Style and Avoiding Plagiarism in Academic Writing

Explores how APA citation style helps writers give proper credit, avoid plagiarism, and maintain academic integrity in research and scholarly writing.

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Legal barriers to same-sex adoption in the United States

I used evidence from the research I did, including data, anecdotes, expert testimony, and observations. I also used my own personal views that gays and lesbians should be allowed to adopt, because I believe it is wrong to keep them from parenting just because of their sexual preferences.

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Do God's attributes enhance or inhibit understanding of God?

Many have attempted to study the philosophy of religion throughout the ages. For as much as most individuals try, a clear understanding can be extremely difficult to grasp and obtain.

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Evil and morality in Merwin, Blake, and Emerson

Questions of morality -- specifically the question of morality; namely whether morality can truly be said to exist in an objective way -- have increasingly been a matter of importance in literature and thought as religion has faded in importance.

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Gender as a category of historical analysis and interpretation

Are there differences between social historians and feminist historians? Do gendered readings of the past necessarily focus on women and women's issues?

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Pojman's principle of desert and the challenges of justice

Louis Pojman basically sends a strong moral signal, and it would be hard to disagree that virtue should be rewarded, and vicious behaviors should be punished in some way. If a rational person disagreed with that idea, it would be news.

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Is Google making us stupid? Technology and human cognition

'it wasn't like that back in MY day." Almost every generation has had to hear some version of these words, as parents or grandparents rue the fact that life has altered, irrevocably, from the days when the elderly individual was young.

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Peter Sellers as the best entertainer of the twentieth century

If it were to choose among best entertainers of the past century, the most pertinent answer should refer to a personality with a constant and remarkable presence in the industry of entertaining, with a strong impact on his auditory, and mostly, with achievements that would remain alive and…

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United States military withdrawal from Iraq

Our soldiers shouldn't be in Iraq in the first place. Though the atrocities of the Hussein regime were well-known, this was never our fight.

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Industrial agriculture's harmful impact on American society and food systems

Is our industrial system of agriculture and food (product) production and distribution (the same system that designs fast food, forces slaughterhouse quotas up, and produces jobs that are industrial opposed to post-industrial) hindering society?

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