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Ethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research

The term 'stem cells' can mean different things to different people. For some, it conjures images of medical miracles providing solutions for heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. For others, it terrifies with a future filled with cloned humans.

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Walden Bello's analysis of the global food crisis and commodity prices

Walden Bello's book The Food Wars is not a meaty book in terms of length, but it covers an issue all of us are and should be concerned with: food. Bello is certainly qualified to discuss this topic.

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Moral conflict and class rage in Faulkner's "Barn Burning"

Topography and spacial relations have a uniquely important role in William Faulkner's literary works. Faulkner's works are often interpreted as literal depictions of his life growing up in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Unregulated education and reason in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, considered by many to be one of the first science-fiction novels written, is rife with anti-Enlightenment undertones.

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Dwight N. Hopkins and black liberation theology

The biblical presentation of human existence and its origin and our own experience of human life in this world are to accept the fact that Adam and Eve were real persons and they are the descents of all human beings.

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Bank of America's financial position compared to competitors

Today's financial environment makes business analysis difficult and hard to predict. Globalization and rapid changing trends dominate business news and affect both Wall Street and Main Street in different yet substantial ways.

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Personal growth through academic writing and business perspective

It's interesting that by participating in the local academia environment (even in the business realm) some of my fundamental beliefs are challenged, though still not overthrown.

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Enlightenment debate on Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe

The eighteenth century brought a sea change to philosophical, scientific, cultural, and social thought. This era, termed the Enlightenment, signaled a step toward freedom from dogmatic ignorance.

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Panofsky and Bedeaux on symbolism in the Arnolfini Portrait

How does the author identify symbolism? What symbols does he find the most evocative? Of the author's interpretations, which symbols do you find most plausible?

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Refuting Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis

Scholars, journalists, and policy makers have adopted and popularized the ideas of Samuel P. Huntington, who was a professor of government at Harvard University, to explain the emerging post-cold war world.

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