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The personal health benefits of volunteering

While an academic definition of volunteerism is any activity in which time and talent is given freely to deliver services or perform tasks to benefit another person, group or cause with no direct financial compensation expected, volunteering is really just a more organized form of giving of…

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The Cold War space race and the American response to Soviet advances

When the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik I, the first ever artificial satellite, in orbit on October 4, 1957, the event took the Americans and the entire western world by surprise.

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Causes and solutions to eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay

Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay: What is the solution? Chesapeake Bay, the largest inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, has been plagued with pollution for hundreds of years.

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Queller and Madden's analysis of the Fourth Crusade's misdirection

Fourth Crusade by Donald Queller and Thomas F. Madden is valuable in its reasoned, articulate description of a confusing and tumultuous time in human history.

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Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism and mass society

The human social animal's capacity for collective tyranny and violence in Hannah Arendt's seminal work Since the publication of her 1951 work on The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt has received much criticism as a philosopher and an historian for her theory of the human, historical…

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Electronic document imaging systems in modern human resources

But a large number of enterprises have chosen an alternative, which provides them to secure all their electronic documents in database. Where a vast area of an office floor would occupy endless files, creating an urgency to retrieve any information, its been shortened by technology.

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Freud and Ortega y Gasset on post-World War I disillusionment

The outbreak of World War I was a traumatic and disillusioning event for many people in Europe, perhaps most of all for those who had committed themselves to a notion of progress and advancement in human affairs.

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Conformity and outsiders in "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "To Brooklyn Bridge"

Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, and "To Brooklyn Bridge" by Hart Crane. Specifically, it discusses what reasons the two main characters have for conforming (or not conforming) to the norm in these two works.

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Democratic Party loss of middle-income voters in Massachusetts

Democratic Party in Massachusetts in the last few years of the decade. Particularly, the paper will assess why the Democratic Party seems to have lost its historic continuity with middle-income voters as evidenced by the popularity of republican themes and issues.

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Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine on the ideal state and good life

In his discourse, The Republic, Plato describes the "ideal state" as composed of three social classes: the merchant class, military class, and philosopher-kings.

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