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Secular humanism's rise and influence in the twentieth century

Basically, humanists believe in freedom and pluralistic democracy as virtually our first principle, and we are disturbed by any authoritarian effort to impose one point-of-view on America.

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XBRL adoption and e-government implementation at HMRC and Companies House

The research highlights the importance of e-government and systems to help achieve fully integrated government systems in the near future. E-commerce led to the development of technology capable of revolutionizing the way in which common transactions are handled.

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Takaki's racialization of savagery in colonial American culture

For Takaki, the racialization of savagery was a critical part of emergent Anglo-American culture. What does he mean by "racialization," and does it differ from ordinary prejudice?

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Competitive positioning of MGSM certificate programs in Southern California

The Marshall Goldsmith School of Management (MGSM) competes with a wide variety of colleges and universities, the most predominant being throughout Southern California.

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Social psychological principles for sustainable agricultural development in Africa

Today more than ever before, societies around the globe are pressed with increasingly complex issues.

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The Big Bang, quantum mechanics, and the absence of divine causation in cosmology

To the best of our current ability to make meaningful assumptions about the origin and nature of the universe, it seems that the universe started out approximately 10 billion years ago as an explosion of energy.

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Social capital development in online games and social networking sites

The exponential growth of the Internet has created an astronomical number of options for communication, connectivity, entertainment and knowledge attainment, right at the fingertips of any connected individual.

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MySQL's technical functionality compared to Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server

The database market continues to consolidate with Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, who had acquired MySQL AB in January, 2008.

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Urban-rural division in post-revolutionary Chinese media and ideology

The social revolution that began in China at the turn of the century and has lasted up to this day is one of the most tumultuous of all such periods in history.

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Neoclassical model of economic growth in the Four Tigers of East Asia

Four Uncaged Tigers: The Eastern Asian Growth Phenomenon Revisited: A Neoclassical Interpretation Beginning in the 1960s, the four nations of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan became the first newly industrialized countries.

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