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Ethical justifications for the regulation of horse slaughter in America

Human beings have hunted animals for food since the dawn of earliest civilization and have been raising them in captivity for work and for slaughter since the first evidence of recorded human history, such as that preserved in prehistoric cave art that has survived to this today.

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Factors contributing to increased suicide rates among police officers

Police Suicide recent study revealed an increase in the number of suicides among police officers more than in the past (Volanti, 1995). A survey population of 2,662 police officers from 1950 to 1979 recorded one suicide every 2.5 years.

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Origins and functions of Irish Round Towers

The name itself carries enough to become a description in its own right of these wonders of the Irish architecture.

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US and EU trademark protection for smell and sound marks

The objective of this work is to examine the United States Law and the European Union Law on trademarks specifically in the area of smell and sound and to make a comparison of the U.S. And EU trademark laws in this area of trademarks

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Political and economic causes of the English Civil War

There is a general debate among historians about precisely what started the English Civil War. While some historians hold that it was the disagreement among the king and the House of Lords and the House of Commons, others hold that this civil war was economically based.

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Idealism and chaos: Woodstock and Altamont in the 1960s

Modern and topical interpretations of the rock an roll era, including but not limited to the culminating events which played out at Woodstock, and its less well-known cousin Altamont are varied, demonstrating the idealism that drove such events as well as the reality of the "disarray" and "chaos"…

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Herbert Spencer's organic analogy and social evolution theory

Spencer, Herbert. 1860. The Social Organization. The Westminster Review. In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory Theory. Fourth Edition. R. McGee and Richard Warms. McGraw Hill.

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Social justice and the distribution of global resources

Social justice can be a difficult concept to explain becomes it encompasses such broad principles. "Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.

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Teaching social skills to children and adolescents in schools

As children often learn the majority of their prosocial behaviors from school it is important that there is an awareness of the processes of teaching and assessing these skills.

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Life and times of Bill Haak during World War II

Bill Haak was raised in a family that was very much involved in many ways (economically, socially, and morally) with the Great Depression and involved militarily with WWI. As time went on WWII would have a major effect on the family as well.

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