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Contrasting visions: John Smith and William Bradford on New England settlement

John Smith's purpose in his writing is clearly to get people to come to America from England. He describes the lands as vast and full of animals to hunt for either pleasure, food, or luxury.

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Social loafing in group laboratory settings

When we had labs with groups of just two, they would go pretty well. But if there were groups of more than two, it would take much longer to get the labs done. People would get into conversations or start goofing off and would lose focus.

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Media framing of Obama's jobs bill and unemployment debate

Unemployment is a huge problem in the United States. The recent economic recession has left a lot of people in the nation without work for long periods of time. Unemployment in a nation usually leads to an increase in crime, mental health issues, and other social ills for the population.

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Thomas Gainsborough's "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews" and eighteenth-century society

By examining the work of painter Thomas Gainsborough, one is able to discover a number of details regarding the culture and society of eighteenth-century England, and his 1750 painting Mr. And Mrs. Andrews is no exception.

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How attitudes function as heuristics in factual judgment and memory recall

We as humans utilize heuristics as mental shortcuts or rules of thumb when we lack time for full-processing, are being overloaded by information, when we deem issues unimportant, or when we have little solid information to use in decision making.

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Leporello's aria "Madamina" in Mozart's Don Giovanni

The aria from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni entitled "Madamina" (Act 1, Scene 2) is sung by Leporello, Don Giovanni's loyal and sarcastic servant. Leporello takes a very realistic view of his master and the women Don Giovanni seduces.

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Stephen Walt's realist critique of U.S. military interventions

Walt, Friedman and Nayan. Stephen. M.Walt (2010) says that he was among the realists who opposed the United States involvement in Vietnam on strategic rather than moral ground and also opposed the Iraq war in 2003.

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Utilitarian ethics and the greatest-happiness principle

Ethics is a moral philosophy that attempts to discover a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of people -- which, in Socrates's words, would simply come down to "how we ought to live" -- and why (Rachels & Rachels 2009). But, who is to say how one ought to live?

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The Synoptic Problem and Gospel literary dependence

The Synoptic Gospels include Matthew, Mark, and Luke and are known as such for their very close similarities to each other. Just explains that each Gospel writer views Jesus with "the same eye," which is then where the term "syn-optic" originates from.

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Information technology infrastructure and upgrade needs in a corporate workplace

Briefly describe your current workplace or a workplace that you have recently been part of but no longer are. (By workplace, I mean the place where you do most of your work on a daily basis. I do not mean the larger organization in which your workplace is located.

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