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Police work and personal experience through ride-along observation

It was in late October in a small town near my home in 1998, and I was on a ride-along with a county sheriff's deputy in a black and white (a Ford Crown Victoria).

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Hammurabi's code and the evolution of law

In the United States, the Penal Code is driven by the U.S.Constitution. And the penal code keeps expanding to take into account modern times. The U.S. Constitution is not exhaustive; its tenet's however, are comprehensive.

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Immigration and the color line in contemporary America

The color line in America is one that is drawn in the southern most regions of the country at the border of legal immigration vs. illegal immigration, and, elsewhere, at the ideological crossroads of capitalism vs. socialism, or Christianity vs. Islam.

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Employee grievance at Boone Air Force Base child development center

The Boone Air Force Base is a large education and training facility that has a child development center that provides federally subsidized childcare for military personnel.

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Green architecture principles and implementation in sustainable building design

What is Green Architecture? Green architecture -- also known as sustainable development, eco-design, eco-friendly architecture, earth-friendly architecture, environmental architecture, natural architecture -- is a sustainable method of green building design: it is design and construction with the…

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Boeing's ethical lapses and governance reform under CEO McNerney

After being rejected for a lucrative Air Force rocket contract, Boeing made several acquisitions to raise their profile in aerospace and put them back on the Air Force's radar. However, the pursuit of the rocket contract and other big Air Force deals led to a pair of major ethical lapses.

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Women's historical roles and social progression from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries

We have seen that women, as a social group, have generated huge interests not only from the scientific, academic community but also from other progressive sectors of the society.

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Conflicting cultural messages and parenting styles shaping American childhood

Raising Children in the U.S. Raising the Future: Interactions Between Society and Children as Indicators for an Unhealthy Culture in the United States

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Women's legal rights achieved through five landmark Supreme Court cases

In 1891, more than one hundred years ago, after Mary Wollstonecraft published "Rights of Woman," Horace Walpole, as a number of others during this time in American history, denounced her as a social outcast.

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The Bush-Cheney presidency and unitary executive theory application

The notion of the powers of "unitary executive" within the context of the Constitution of the United States simply put is: that the executive powers within the nation are vested with the President of the United States.

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