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The Kormos and Safar study (2008) seems to have been much better designed to produce meaningful results than the Mota study (2003). At the most fundamental level, the Kormos and Safar study manifested an explicit…

Women are far less likely than men to be dispatched to death row for their crimes, even though many of them are sentenced for the same crimes. Females account for about one in eight (13%) murder arrests, one in 72…

In a world where obesity is the number one public health concern in many countries at the same time as the rest of the world is suffering from under-nutrition, it makes sense to ask about the global food system that…

Southwest's emphasis on corporate culture as a source of competitive advantage derives from its philosophy that the employees are the most important driver of success at the airline.

Globalization is one of the extremely challenged subjects in social science. Spectators and theorists of globalization have severally reasoned that the speedy rise in cross-border economic, social, technological and…

Those who are seen by society as generally incompetent are likely to take full advantage of whatever realm they can gain a sense of competence and even mastery in. Hackers came from the ranks of the disenfranchised, although they were not disenfranchised in the ways that that term has generally been applied. They were not disenfranchised by virtue of race or gender or age or class or any other demographic quality. Rather they were disenfranchised simply because they could not fit in. This gave them a natural alliance with others who could not fit in to whatever society they lived in and for whatever reason. When hacking became hacktivism, this empathy for the underdog would often translate into empathy for human rights activists in repressive regimes.

This review of Jeremy Black's Rethinking Military History examines the strengths and weaknesses of Black's argument, highlighting the way he perpetuates one of the central problems with military historiography while challenging many others. Black's book suffers because it does not sufficiently account for the influence of military structures themselves on the practice of military history, and as such cannot sufficiently describe the root cause of the problems he identifies. Nevertheless, his book offers important insights into the practice of military history, and well as historical scholarship as a whole.

The so-called Great Masculine Renunciation was an important point in the history of men's fashion, but is has been misunderstood until very recently. Rather than abandoning fashion, men in the nineteenth century simply stopped saying they were participating in fashion while they continued to do so. Understanding this allows one to better comprehend the history of men's fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the way in which this history demonstrates attempts to perpetuate male hegemony.

Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most important and common chronic diseases found in humans. The disease has foundational consequences for the body and the mind and seriously affects society in general in both direct and…

The Effects of Increasing Tuition in Higher Education on Graduation Rates