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Civil rights as an ongoing movement beyond the 1950s and 1960s

In his acclaimed novel, Bombingham, Anthony Grooms writes skillfully about the battlefields of Vietnam and the battlefields of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in particular, the battles fought in and around the Alabama city of Birmingham.

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Female authors' use of genre to challenge women's suppression in society

Literature is a means by which people can raise questions about the society they live in and address issues of concern to them. One of the questioned often raised relates to the role of women in society.

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Martin Luther's education and early path to monasticism

Martin Luther took his birth on November 10, 1483 in a peasant family in Eisleben in the Holy Roman Empire, presently known as Eastern Germany. After the birth of Luther his family migrated from Eisleben to Mansfeld.

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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's impact on waste management

Waste management and the landfill industry in general have emerged in the past few decades as an area of concern for citizens, government officials and policy makers alike.

~14 min read

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Statute of limitations, monoculture, indigenous rights, and moral hazard

Statute of limitations: These are laws which set limitations in terms of time for filing of lawsuits within a certain period of time when the event has happened and that event is the reason for the lawsuit.

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Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and Late Victorian Aestheticism

The Late Victorian Era was characterized by numerous artistic and literary movements that were reactions to the growing industrialization and homogenization of contemporary society.

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The Warner brothers' pioneering adoption of synchronized sound technology

Warner Brothers, name normally pertains to Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., which is an American motion-picture production company, and was the first to use series of synchronized sound in a silent feature film.

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The transatlantic slave trade: European expansion and African labor exploitation

Slavery has existed since the beginning history, and references can be found throughout the Old Testament and other ancient writings from around the globe.

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HIV and AIDS content knowledge for dental professionals

Infectious diseases, whether hepatitis, flu, herpes, HIV, AIDS, impetigo, encephalitis, measles, Rocky Mountain Fever, or a host of others have plagued mankind for centuries. Without doubt new infectious diseases will appear in the world's population for centuries to come.

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Women as archetypal mother figures in Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

In Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse imagines women as aspects of the archetypical, universal Mother; this abstraction at endows the feminine with a mystical power and stature, while simultaneously creating a stereotype which may serve to eclipse the desires and personhood of the individual woman.

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