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In defense of the exclusionary rule in American criminal procedure

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than one innocent suffer," said English jurist William Blackstone (Blackstone, 2009, Legal Dictionary). It is this core principle that lies behind the exclusionary rule, one of the cornerstones of American Constitutional law.

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Spenser's dialogue on Ireland's problems and reform

A View of the Present State of Ireland was written by Edmund Spenser, an English poet born in 1552. He wrote a View of the Present State of Ireland after fourteen years of experience. In 1633, this was published by Sir James Ware.

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Claude C.H. Williamson's critique of Hamlet's critical interpretation

William Shakespeare's Hamlet has long been lauded as one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- work of literature in English or perhaps any other language. As such, it has also produced some of the most criticism, covering an incredibly wide range of views and opinions.

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The Rudin family's rise in Manhattan real estate development

What family member started the Rudin business and when? The English Rudin Family originally came from Leicestershire, where they were seated as the Lords of the Manor.

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Camilla Townsend's historical analysis of Pocahontas beyond myth

The figure of Pocahontas, the Native American princess who saved the English explorer John Smith from certain death at the hands of her father Powhatan, and married another Englishman she later came to love, has become an enduring myth of the early days of the Americas.

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Hamlet as a Renaissance man confronting humanistic ideals

If the Italians rediscovered Humanity trough the Greek and Roman antiquity, the English rediscovered it through the Italians, by the time the Italian Renaissance was already going through its third century.

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Life of Pi as postcolonial literature: strengths and weaknesses

Life of Pi: improving a Masterpiece? Much of the English and specifically the British/Commonwealth literature of the latter half of the twentieth century has been classified as "postcolonial" literature, in that it explores the ramifications and implications of the end to overt colonial control of…

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Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and economic inequality satire

Literature is a window into the society of Jonathon Swift's time in which created he created "A Modest Proposal." It mirrors English society and addresses the concerns of the day with regard to the social problems of poverty, hunger and the blindness to those issues of inequality in English…

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The evolution of private security services in America

Historically the security systems in America had roots in England. Many of the early settlers were English citizens before coming to America and brought the common law strategies with them.

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Courtly love in Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory's Arthurian romances

Courtly Love -- the French Ethos Embodied in the Romantic Lancelot, and the English Ethos Embodied in the Dutiful Gawain

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