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Evaluating source credibility and research accuracy

This is why you want to consider how those sources are selected. At which point, you can make an assessment as to which ones are the most factually accurate.

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Walmart, the WTO, and global economic inequality

The concept of a global community has become one of the defining features of our shared economy.

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A.O. Scott on the decline of print criticism in the digital age

Changes in the structure of media today have resulted in catastrophe for the criticism business, claims one leading movie critic. A.O.

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Ruddiman's argument that humans caused early climate change

Ruddiman's principal claim is that human effect on climate change did not begin in the 1800s as most scientists accept, but began thousands of years before in slow gradual changes whose impact equals that of the Industrial Revolution. He supports this claim in various ways.

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William Bullokar and Isaac Pitman's English language reform efforts

Two Champions and Two Eras of Attempts at English Reform: A Comparison of William Bullokar and Sir Isaac Pitman The English language is often referred to as a "bastard" language, as it has no pretensions to the type of "purity" supposedly inherent to other more ancient languages.

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Cuban Americans and immigration following the 1959 revolution

The relationship between Cuba and the U.S. involves a history of tension, and, in the recent decades, a history of Cubans struggling to leave their country for the states. The presence of a dictatorship in Cuba and the promise of a dream life in the U.S.

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The birth of Unix: philosophy, design, and revolutionary impact

UNIX is, likely, the oldest operating system still in widespread use today, and still containing bits of code and philosophy generated sometime in the 1970s by predecessors of the Free Software Movement.

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Developing a crew fatigue prevention program for Acme Airlines

"Acme Airlines" (Acme Air) is a mid-sized regional carrier, for the purposes of this paper, that has undertaken to establish a "Crew Fatigue Prevention Program." Management has taken this action pursuant to safety concerns occasioned by several reported Acme Air crew-fatigue incidents and by recent…

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Climate change trends in the Wabash Watershed, 1961-1990

The Wabash Watershed -- For this analysis, we will be focusing on a specific geographic area, the Wabash Watershed. Chronologically, we will use 1961-1990 as our basal reference, including raw, 5-year average, and 10-year average data.

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Fear and courage in obedience: Asch, Fromm, and Zimbardo

It has been suggested that fear and courage are directly related to whether or not a person is obedient. Some believe that it takes courage to be disobedient, since disobedience will normally result in punishment of some kind, and choosing to face punishment takes courage.

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