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Huckleberry Finn as social critic in Twain's masterpiece

Today, an author might be hard pressed to portray an adolescent boy with a penchant for mischief and adventure as being the most important, insightful and objective spokesman for an entire generation, but in his masterpiece, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Samuel Clemens, writing under…

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Law enforcement agencies' use of the internet and crime mapping technology

The internet has been called the "information superhighway" for its vast array of uses today. What started in 1973 as a research program by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPAnet soon developed into a set of protocols (Macmillan 2006).

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Ecology's role as the foundation of environmental science

Ecology can be loosed defined as the study of the distribution and abundance of living organism and such distributions are affected by interactions between organisms and their environment.

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Subtle racial division in my local Florida community

Racism in America today is much different from racism in the traditional sense. The intensity of anti-racism and political correct dialogue lobbyists within the past decade has made it taboo to be or even appear racist.

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Steven Vertovec's theory of super-diversity in Britain

Throughout the world there is an increase in immigration and the amount of diversity that exist in various areas around the globe; this is particularly true in the United Kingdom.

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Native American high school dropout rates in Montana

In autumn, 1980, high dropout rates among Native American students in a Montana high school district were so out of proportion with other school districts' dropout rates that a study was needed in order to come to grips with the problem.

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Cross-cultural communication strategies in global construction business operations

The objective of this work is to research operating and communicating in a global marketplace in the context of a construction business.

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Abuse and silence in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a richly layered epistolary novel with many themes, primary among them the devastating impact of abuse against others based on race and gender.

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The Asian-American theme of estrangement in Suki Kim's The Interpreter

Asian-American literature? What constitutes the category of Asian-American literature is by definition problematic.

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Human Rights Watch recommendations for meatpacking industry worker safety

Workplace safety [...] Human Rights Watch (HRW) recommendations for worker safety in the meatpacking industry, and the viability of those recommendations.

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