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Racial and ethnic identity in Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Fuller's Scribbling the Cat

Both Ayi Kwei Armah's novel Two Thousand Seasons and Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat: Travels With and African Soldier deal with the complex formulation of racial and ethnic identities in Africa as a result of the slave trade and colonization.

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Cultural interpretations of Bride and Prejudice across British, American, and Indian reviews

Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 film directed by Gurinder Chada and founded on the plotline established by the literary classic, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

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Leopold's land ethic and consumer ethics in Don DeLillo's White Noise

Don DeLilo's novel White Noise examines the variety of anxieties affecting people in the late-Cold War and contemporary period, with certain portions focused especially on the role mass media plays in the construction of ideas related to ethics and the environment.

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Metal detectors in schools: ineffective security and corporate profit motive

When confronted with a frightening phenomena, people often tend only to look at the symptom, rather than the underlying cause, and in turn they end up making the problem worse, as in the case of installing metal detectors in schools in an attempt to stop violence.

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Racial assumptions in Canadian marriage equality discourse

Marrying Citizens! Raced Subjects? Re-thinking the Terrain of Equal Marriage Discourse," Suzanne Lenon attempts to parse the underlying racial assumptions present in the legal fight for marriage equality in Canada, and in doing so reveals that this topic is as much about racial identity as sexual…

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Economic motivations in early twentieth-century U.S. Caribbean policy

Was the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Policy in the Caribbean Motivated by Economic Concerns? Recent American military interventions in the Middle East revived old debates about core issues that motivate U.S. foreign policy, its drive for dominance, and the question of imperialism.

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Applying servant leadership and distributed leadership in middle schools

In this paper, we present an analysis of servant leadership as well as distributed leadership as well as a description of how they can be used in the educational settings.

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The Industrial Revolution's transformation of work structure, identity, and time

Industrial Revolution heralded a shift in the way that goods were produced. Technological developments in particular began a shift in emphasis away from human capital towards financial capital.

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The moral case against animal cruelty and sport hunting

Animals think. Animals feel emotion. Animals experience pain. Yet there are members of our human society that find these facts irrelevant.

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Judy Brady's arguments for needing a wife

Brady makes are based on her personal and professional needs, a few of the arguments Brady makes in her desire to have a wife seem to be from the heart.

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