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Women in CI/HUMINT: Benefits and Strategies for Integration

Examines why integrating women into CI/HUMINT units strengthens intelligence gathering, and identifies best practices for effective, cohesion-preserving implementation.

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Western hegemony and the universality of human rights standards

In Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus edited by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim (1992), the articles are mostly concerned with reworking the notion of human rights in an effort to achieve consensus on a 'new,' 'more universal' (or cosmopolitan) view of human rights, as "the…

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Josephus's credibility as a historian of first-century Jewish affairs

Much of the Jewish history during the 1st century comes from the works of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Many scholars extol Josephus for his documentation of these times, since they are the only ones that depict the historical events occurring during this turbulent time.

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The Soviet Union and the United States as post-war security rivals

At the end of World War II, roughly Summer 1945, Europe was in shambles. Millions had been killed, many of the governments so disenfranchised that they had to be rebuilt.

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Classical influences and intertextuality in Ben Jonson's Volpone

Ben Jonson is a writer who was deeply influenced by earlier novels in both themes and structures.

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Form follows function in twentieth-century skyscraper design and architecture

Modernism in architecture came about in the 20th century as it introduced completely innovative ways of thinking. The way that "designers, architects and engineers conceptualized, fabricated, and evaluated these environments has been the subject of very intense debate" (Doordan 2003, p x).

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Thomas Jefferson's radical vision for American educational reform

Thomas Jefferson's life experiences shaped his views on education. His attitudes towards education -- radical as they were for his time -- were influenced by his unusual life, by the revolutionary times in which he lived, and by his own rather exceptional perspective on the world.

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Creative writing and English language proficiency in Singapore

Singapore is a country in which the learning of the English language has become vitally important. For many students, the learning of the English Language is dependent upon the development of creative writing skills.

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Servant leadership as a remedy for conflict at South Iowa Chapel

Applying Servant Leadership within a Conflicted Church: The Project as an Act of Ministry My church, the South Iowa Chapel, like many modern churches, is a church in conflict. Conflicted churches are problematic because they drive parishioners away from the church, and, possibly, away from Christ.

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Historical origins of Nazi concentration and death camps

In attempting to analyze the causes and the history behind the concentration camps and death camps that Nazi Germany created all over the conquered places and more particularly in German soil itself, there are a set of questions that the student of history must answer first.

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