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What does it mean to be a Black historian? The Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Connecticut State University W.D. Wright takes up this challenge in his new book on Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a…

Experience often shapes the individual in more ways than we realize. The most successful people take their experiences and turn them into something that is positive. Langston Hughes demonstrates how an individual can do…

Organ transplant is an area of medical treatment that has the capacity to save lives, but there is a significant set of challenges which prevent transplant from being employed as early and often as desired.

Scott Momaday, in both his poetry and in his criticism, shows an incisive knowledge of humanity and of the functions and nature of language. Especially evident in much of his writing, and made explicit in his commentary…

Texas has had a total of six constitutions since the Republic of Texas was formed after its breakaway from Mexico in 1836. Its current constitution, adopted in 1876, is one of the longest state constitutions in the…

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This essay examines the connection between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, and particularly the way the latter strips the former of its anti-imperialist argument. Apocalypse Now frames Vietnam as a personal trauma, and in doing so allows the American Empire to avoid criticism. Ultimately, one can view Apocalypse Now as a direct inversion of Heart of Darkness' argument, because the film serves to support imperialism while the book argues against it.

Real estate is the one most frequently mentioned areas of law that has the greatest divergence between jurisdictions today. For example, under Germany's Civil Code, certain aspects of real estate are governed by other…

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On July 1, 2013, a new trucking hours of service rule will take effect in the United States that will have important implications for over-the-road trucking companies and their professional drivers. To gain some fresh insights into these implications, the purpose of this paper was to use the three value system comprised of law, morality, and social responsibility in the application of different ethical principles in the analysis of the response by Swift Transportation and Werner Enterprise to the new hours of service rule. To this end, the paper presents a review of the relevant peer-reviewed, scholarly, governmental and organizational literature in these areas, followed by a summary of the research, important findings, personal opinions and recommendations in the paper's conclusion.