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Body, Voice, and Freedom: Sojourner Truth's Radical Witness

Analyze Sojourner Truth's life, activism, and "Ain't I a Woman?" speech through her strategy of embodied witness that united abolitionism and women's rights.

History

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James Hillman's critique of twentieth-century psychology and soul

James Hillman's Re-Visioning Psychology is so expansive and far-reaching that it is difficult to know where to begin a response to this work.

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Einstein's letter to Roosevelt and the historiographic debate over the Manhattan Project

Manhattan Project was one of the most documented events in American and World History. The discussion will provide an explanation of the Manhattan Project and how the project changed society forever.

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Allen Verhey's examination of "playing God" and moral perspective

In his article "Playing God' and Invoking a Perspective," Allen Verhey examines not just the advisability of humans "playing God," but the essential meaning of the term itself.

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Fast food restaurant density and obesity epidemic in America

In Michael Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation he quite candidly points out that "obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States" (241).

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Kelly James Clark's defense of reformed epistemology and faith

One of the recurring questions in any study of religion is how humans can believe in God without proof of His existence. Some philosophers have determined that such a belief is irrational and argue against the existence of God.

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Michael Grant's analysis of historical bias in Cleopatra

Cleopatra by Micheal Grant gives his readers a thought provoking idea as to how most of the records discussed by him were written from one point-of-view to another and thus was sentimentally partial in view in one way or another (Chabot, 2007).

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The problem of evil in atheist arguments against God's existence

God Exist? Humanities fascination with life and death has led to question what happens when we die. Atheists view life as a sentence that begins with a Capital letter and ends with a period. However, others see life as a continuously changing ribbon of time that goes on forever.

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Appiah's case for contamination and the Secure Fence Act

President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act into law on October 26, 2006. This policy provides for the construction of a border fence along the United State's southern border with Mexico, beefs up security and enforcement along the border, and allows "guest" workers and citizenship for illegal…

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Why the Scientific Revolution couldn't occur in China

Ethno- or cultural-centricity can take many forms, and it is not simply in the realms studied by the "soft sciences" -- sociology, psychology, and other investigations of human action, motivation, and community -- that problems and biases from such thinking emerge.

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