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How should legal systems define rights and personhood for artificial intelligence?

The legal system can choose to ignore such changes. Alternatively, it may selectively alter its rules legislatively or via judicial interpretation.

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Christianity's influence on the preservation and recording of Jewish history

Jewish history was promoted by the scribes or the Levites in early Jewish history and later on the popular educator and teachers promoted learning of the scriptures within the Jewish people so that history would be preserved however, at the time Christianity emerged this factor influenced the…

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Transitioning a family farm to value-added nut and fruit processing

Recent trends in America focus on the importance of a healthy diet and exercise. Americans are becoming more conscious about what they eat and where it comes from. I was fortunate enough to be the sole heir of a farm that my grandfather started more than 50 years ago.

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Rhetoric and self-interest in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth

Former Vice President Al Gore, who, in his documentary film on global warming, by director Davis Guggenheim, an Inconvenient Truth (2006), introduces himself, "I am Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States," won an Academy Award for the documentary.

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Teaching strategies for students with ADHD in general education classrooms

Theories of child development and guidelines for parents are not cast in stone. They are constantly changing and adapting to new information and new pressures.

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U.S. diplomatic silence during Stalin's Great Purge, 1937-1938

The history of the Soviet Union represents one of the most controversial aspects of the history of the world. Its turbulent past as well as its complex leaders led Russia to be considered one of the strangest and yet most fascinating subjects of study in the history of our civilization.

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MySpace's impact on social networking and communication

Over the last decade the internet has transformed the manner in which people all over the world socialize and connect. The internet social network MySpace.com was one of the first and remains the most popular of all internet social networking sites.

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Friedrich Engels's original ideas and intellectual partnership with Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels is described by Terrell Carver (2003) as a man involved in one of the most famous intellectual collaborations of all time (p. 1). That collaboration, as we now know, was the political ideology of socialism.

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Parapraxis and the psychoanalytic interpretation of speech errors

Slips of the tongue, lapsus linguae, parapraxes or fehlleistung are many different ways to say, perhaps, the same thing. During the course of our lives we all certainly have made an error or two in speech.

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U.S. failure to protect gay and lesbian Iraqis from torture

The United States has always presented itself as a model of fairness and equality.

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