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Age discrimination in the workplace and legal protections

The type of discrimination is new. In fact age was regarded as a type of virtue because the aged employee often was the expert who could do things better than others.

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Historiography of American slavery in four interpretive works

Each of these works depicts a time and place in the history of American slavery, and each makes unique and valid points regarding this "peculiar" institution.

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Gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France

Landes, Joan B. Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2001.

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John Donne's Holy Sonnet 14 and religious transformation

As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; 2. Donne has trouble letting God in. Your force to break, blow, burn and make me new, 5I, like an usurped town, to another due, 5. Donne uses a metaphor of a town. It has been seiged by the enemy.

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Lyndon Johnson's Texas style and liberal political ideals

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a southern President with a Texas accent. In some ways he exemplified the stereotypical Texan. In seeking a link between his social identity as a Texan and his liberal political views, however, it is difficult to see any strong causal connection.

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Representations of women in Frankenstein and Dracula

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Specifically it will compare and contrast the two texts. These two stories were written over 70 years apart, and they show two decidedly different views of women in the novels.

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The philosophical debate between free will and determinism

Free-will and determinism are issues of faith. Some people believe that each individual has unrestricted free-will to act as he or she chooses no matter the obligations or consequences of the act.

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Extrasensory perception: history, types, and scientific investigation

Extrasensory perception or ESP refers to a capability to receive external information through means or pathways not through the five physical senses (Ridgway 2008). The ordinary mind does not accept this concept because the world we live in is a physical world.

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Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad and human motivation in rhetoric

An everyday enigma of human experience is figuring out what motivates the people around us, whether they are people with whom we interact or people we watch in the media.

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Adam Smith's life, economic theories, and philosophical contributions

Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish philosopher and economist, is widely regarded as the father of modern economics and capitalism.

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