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Judicial discretion in criminal sentencing and its limitations

Judges are viewed as idealistic symbols empowered with the power and authority to affect significant change in an individual's life.

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Los Angeles segregation: privilege, racism, and the film "Crash"

Los Angeles -- a City Segregated by Privilege? Or by Racism? The City of Los Angeles has been -- and probably will always be -- a place of interest, controversy, and even fascination for the rest of the country.

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Semantic web technologies for integrating heterogeneous data sources

The tools to be used are also indicated.

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Gender role socialization and cultural variation in adolescent identity formation

Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has somewhat evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Gender roles are complex and clearly vary by culture and time-period, and are often misunderstood based on individual societal bias.

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Colonialism in The Tempest and Season of Migration to the North

Both William Shakespeare's play The Tempest and Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North deal with the cultural tensions arising as a result of colonialism, albeit in different historical moments and from different sides of the colonizer-colonized relationship.

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Mollie Orshansky's poverty level definition and its modern limitations

Bell, Carolyn Shaw. (1995). What is Poverty? The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 54(2) 161-173.

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Management by objectives misalignment in IT services firm performance

The lack of congruity between the strategic plans and direction of the IT services firm on the one hand and the structure of its Management by Objectives (MBO) program on the other is causing a major disconnect in overall company performance.

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Faults, folds, and rock formations in earth science

Of course, electronic voting system has its downside too such as the total uselessness of the system in the event of a major power blackout and loss of backup power supply.

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Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" and global governance discourse analysis

Ulrich Brand's "Order and Regulation" is less a discussion of global governance and more a discussion about the discussion -- a Foucauldian analysis that attempts to be circumspect by first rooting out the causes of the discussion.

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Mbuti hunting and subsistence practices in the Ituri forest

The Mbuti society of central Africa is a sub-category of an ethnic group known to Westerners as "African Pygmies." Since the colonization of Africa by Europeans several centuries ago, the Pygmies have taken root in the Western imagination as a mysterious tribe of tiny, uncivilized forest-dwellers.

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