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James Truslow Adams and the origin of the American Dream

American Dream metaphor stands as a symbol of the U.S. And of it being the land of freedom in which almost anyone can fulfill their fantasies.

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Gender-based health insurance pricing discrimination in California

Gender Discrimination: "ED medications are for men only; prescription birth control is for women only. Legislators who permit health plans to operate under a double standard are engaging in gender discrimination against women."

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Generational conflict and cultural change in Freaky Friday remakes

Social transformation and the development of popular media are essentially linked in an environment such as the U.S. where the popular media both reflects social change and spurns it on.

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Hans Asperger's contribution to understanding autism spectrum disorders

About sixty-five years ago Hans Asperger put forward a description of a distinct profile of abilities and behaviors in young children that he called "autistic psychopathy" - which means autism ("self") and psychopathy ("personality disease").

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Risk contingencies and strategic management at Tetra Tech

Risk assessments inform decision making about effective actions for 'managing' risk - i.e. avoiding, removing, reducing, improving and generally controlling risks." (Waring and Glendon, 2007)

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The Oslo Peace Accords of 1993 and their impact on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Today, the State of Israel continues to be faced with some fundamental challenges and obstacles to its goals of resolving the longstanding conflict between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and neighboring Middle Eastern countries in the region.

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T.S. Eliot's theory of tradition and individual talent

Eliot makes in "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is the supposed lack of tradition in English writing.

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Affirmative action's impact on race relations in higher education

Affirmative action, in higher education and elsewhere has been a hotly debated issue, since its inception, among a group of minority faculty and faculty organization from U.S.

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Reality therapy and choice theory in counseling practice

Reality Therapy is a practical approach to helping people take responsibility for their lives.

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Long-term implications of the Yom Kippur War on Middle East peace

As forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq massed around Israel's borders in 1967, Israel launched a six-day air campaign which crippled the capacity of its opponents to wage war and which expanded its borders to well beyond the tract originally awarded to Zionists with the independence of 1948.

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