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Women's power to demand legal change in ancient Greece and Rome

Lysistrata by Aristophanes and "Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law" by Livy. Specifically, it will discuss how Lysistrata and other women had the power to demand change in law and public policy. These pieces were written during times of strife and war in Greece and Rome.

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Patricia Nelson Limerick's approach to American Western history

The American West was a place in time and history that continues to affect our daily lives.

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Jimmy Carter's presidency in secondary source scholarship

Press, 1977. 9-31. This book predicts, using a [then relatively new, since when this book was published in 1977, psychohistory was then less than five years old (see Editor's Foreword)] psycho-historical/biographical approach, that Jimmy Carter would [in truth he did not] lead America into a war by…

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New technologies and democratization in contemporary popular music

POPULAR MUSIC is the obvious link to the mass consumer culture. It represents a challenge for any claims as to its transformative potential and capacity for resistance.

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Thomas Nagel's question of animal consciousness and thought

Clearly, humans, in their human form, cannot experience what it is to be a bat or any other animal, because we cannot shed our own forms and take on the characteristics of another species. Yet, these animals do have physical and mental experiences.

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The relationship between war and economic development in history

Talking about war might seem to be a very general attempt: wars have animated the history and have contributed to the development of civilizations; wars have led to the appearance and delimitation of countries and have woken the national conscience in people's minds.

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African-American cultural expression and the politics of oppression

Many cultural forms of expression have been utilized within the social science construct, to demonstrate ways in which such expressions reflect the culture as a whole, and in many cases the broader culture, or the one that is usually subjugating the first. Within W.E.B.

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Antisemitism and the Holocaust: ideology, scapegoating, and genocide

Holocaust really happened. The systematic murder of six million Jews is hard to take in, hard to conceive. Those six million people were human beings with hopes and dreams, families they loved, lives to live, and things they wanted to do.

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Naomi Wolf's use of emotive language in The Beauty Myth

Language is one of the most fundamental components of human communication, encompassing everything from the banal to the philosophical. Used effectively, language has the power to argue theories and manipulate opinion.

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Tasers as routine force tools: examining overuse in law enforcement

The use of Tasers, dart-firing weapons designed to cause instant immobility by delivering a high voltage shock, has gained widespread use in recent times among the law enforcement agencies, particularly in the U.S.A.

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