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Religious Literacy and the Case for Religious Studies Education

An analysis of Prothero's and Smith's arguments on American religious ignorance, religious studies scholarship, and the need for cross-cultural religious education.

Religion

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Essay Undergraduate 646 words

Water Crisis Politics: California and Global Water Rights

An analysis of Tara Lohan's "Crossroads of a Water Crisis," examining water politics, California water policy, and the global fight for clean drinking water access.

Environment

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Essay Undergraduate 934 words

Google, Reading, and the Brain: Carr and Shields Compared

A comparative analysis of Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and Carol Shields's "Curling Up With a Book," exploring how the internet affects deep reading.

Communications

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762 words

Peer review analysis of Golden and Arce's cybercrime research papers

Scam Types: Mapping the Terrain of Cyber Crime (2011), author Golden demonstrates strengths in providing sharp insights and a good command of editing skills. However, there are some areas that could use improvement.

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954 words

Burke and the Sophists: comparing ancient and modern rhetoric

Approaches to rhetoric, which can be broadly defined as the science -- or perhaps quasi-art -- of how ideas, words, and/or actions are communicated and/or inspired in human beings, are highly varied and can be enormously complex.

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880 words

Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw": ambiguity and psychological interpretation

Screw by Henry James, due to its ambiguity and obscurity, is considerably one of literature's earliest focal points of New Criticism. This revered "Ghost Story" raised much a stink throughout the early part of last century (Publication date: 1898).

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705 words

Utilitarian approaches to mandatory organ donation policies

Utilitarian approaches to the controversial subject of organ donation fall into a few different categories. Firstly, there is the question of organ donation from cadavers.

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628 words

Infant spatial environment, handrail use, and cognitive development

Berger and Adolph's (2003) research indicates how infants use handrails to navigate their surroundings and to expand their immediate environmental travels. They conclude with the observation that:

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721 words

Student assessment of food advertising and nutrition literacy

For a week before the unit, students will keep a 'food diary' of everything they eat, and after composing the diary, they will find out the calorie counts of the food, and basic information on the foods consumed such as vitamin and mineral content, fiber, protein, and sugar values.

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468 words

George Kateb's theory of democratic individuality and Emerson

Democratic Individuality? George Kateb, in "Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics," suggests that democratic individuality is rooted in the notion that when an individual's rights are deemed as scared and protected, that individual is then free to explore and fulfill his role as an…

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