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Ecofeminism's evidence gap: scholarly arguments and empirical challenges

Claims by feminists of a verifiable linkage between the patriarchal plowing of Planet Earth's ecosystems asunder and those same males' history of trampling on women's needs and rights have a prominent position in feminist literature.

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Is Google making us stupid? Technology and human cognition

'it wasn't like that back in MY day." Almost every generation has had to hear some version of these words, as parents or grandparents rue the fact that life has altered, irrevocably, from the days when the elderly individual was young.

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The Wachowski brothers' auteur style in Bound and The Matrix

The Wachowski Brothers jumped to film legend status with their directorial completion of the Matrix, which would reinvent many of the standards relating to the use of computer graphics, cinematography and major themes.

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Peter Sellers as the best entertainer of the twentieth century

If it were to choose among best entertainers of the past century, the most pertinent answer should refer to a personality with a constant and remarkable presence in the industry of entertaining, with a strong impact on his auditory, and mostly, with achievements that would remain alive and…

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Frederick Turner's frontier thesis and American exceptionalism

Turner's work on the significance of the frontier in American history is perhaps one of the most complex anthropological attempts to define and analyze the American people.

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Malcolm X's views on education and systemic racial inequality in America

Malcolm X's ideas about education in America and its function in society. Malcolm X was self-educated, and he gained that education while he was serving time for robbery in prison.

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Evil, forgiveness, and modern humanity's capacity for redemption

Ever since former President George W. Bush defined the countries that harbor terrorists as an "axis of evil," the word "evil" and its appropriateness in modern society have come under accelerated examination.

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United States military withdrawal from Iraq

Our soldiers shouldn't be in Iraq in the first place. Though the atrocities of the Hussein regime were well-known, this was never our fight.

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The Bush-Cheney presidency and unitary executive theory application

The notion of the powers of "unitary executive" within the context of the Constitution of the United States simply put is: that the executive powers within the nation are vested with the President of the United States.

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Industrial agriculture's harmful impact on American society and food systems

Is our industrial system of agriculture and food (product) production and distribution (the same system that designs fast food, forces slaughterhouse quotas up, and produces jobs that are industrial opposed to post-industrial) hindering society?

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