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Cocaine and crack as sustenance and recreation drugs

Cocaine and Crack: Proletariat Hunger Killers or Genussmittels? Cocaine and crack cocaine are generally discussed as two of the greatest scourges facing western civilization.

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Victor Frankl's logotherapy and the search for meaning

Man's Search For Meaning Reader's Search For Clarity, Basis, Adequacy And Implications In Victor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning

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Robert Johannsen's analysis of the Mexican-American War's media narrative

Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas. Oxford University Press, 1999. The thesis of the book To the Halls of the Montezumas by Robert W. Johannsen is that the Mexican-American War was America's first foreign war, even though Mexico was not the first foreign power America ever fought.

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Gender and separate spheres ideology in Frederick Douglass's autobiography

Still Bound to Notions of the Separate Spheres and Roles of Men and Women: Frederick Douglass My Life in Bondage One might like to think of Frederick Douglass as a purely radical thinker, a man on the cutting edge of female rights as well as Black liberation.

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Political freedom and human happiness in Dostoevsky, More, Marx, Rousseau, and Nietzsche

The five thinkers examined here all premise their work on the major questions of political freedom for mankind balanced with man's happiness.

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Islam and democracy: compatibility and regional practice

Islam compatible with Democracy? The correlation between Islam and democracy is vehemently argued among the people who make out with the Islamic resurrection during the later part of twentieth century and early twenty-first.

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European missionaries and traders in Silence and The Mission

Trade: a Primary Goal and (Questionable) Accomplishment of European Groups, as Shown within the novel Silence and the film the Mission

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Theodore Sizer's critique of American educational policy and reform

The author Theodore Sizer shed light upon his fifty years of being a professor at Brown, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and headmaster of Phillips Academy.

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Verbal aggression and the dissolution of marriage relationships

Every year the divorce rate gets a little higher. About 50% of all marriages in the United States fail. Almost nobody goes into a marriage thinking they will fail, and yet half do. Not all, but many marriages fail because of communication problems.

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Three logical fallacies in organizational decision-making

"It's all your fault!" cries the Chief Executive at the Board Meeting. "Well, why shouldn't we get a raise -- the higher-ups are making even more money that they don't deserve than we are!" cries the union representative. "Our workers should get some of that company money, too!"

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