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Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the case for American independence

I write this letter to you on the eve of what could be the greatest era in history, or the dawn of one of the most tragic displays of misplaced loyalty since Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ brought Judas Iscariot into his confidence.

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American Catholic identity and dissent in the twentieth century

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Feminist critique of submission in "Beauty and the Beast"

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