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Onward Westward

In important respects, the regional context of the Western Hemisphere has changed dramatically in the past decade. Authoritarian rule has given way to democracy in almost every Latin American country; societies wrenched by years of violent and costly civil wars, driven by Cold War ideological ...

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The Study of World Religions and the Public School Curriculum: A Problem or a Solution?

“The mere mention of the terms religion and public education in the same sentence has both educators and parents gasping aloud” (Ayers and Reid 14). The whole controversy of religion and public schools has a thick, impenetrable shell of arguments wrapped around it. People on both sides of the ...

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Marijuana history

Cannabis, also known as marijuana(sometimes spelled "marihuana") among many other names,a refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug. The word marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish marihuana.According to the United Nations, cannabis "is the ...

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Gao Xingjian

Playwright, critic and novelist, Gao Xingjian is a prominent leader of the avant-garde movement in fiction and drama that began in the wake of the Cultural Revolution in China. “Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence (Xingjian 1).” Communist China tried to suppress Gao’s works ...

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Haptic Technology

Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management Gandhinagar Campus,Rushikonda,visakhapatnam-530045. Web site: www.Gitam.edu, PAPER PRESENTATION ON HAPTIC TECHNOLOGY BY Neha Jha & D. Naga sivanath ¾ EIE, GITAM , Vishakhapatnam. ABSTRACT “HAPTICS”-- a technology that adds the ...

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Karl Marx & Max Weber: Society’s Emphasis on Individuality

From the beginning of time until present day, societies have been ever changing with the advancement in technology, means of production, and social status to name a few. For great thinkers such as Karl Marx and Max Weber, advantages and disadvantages on society’s emphasis on individuality was a ...

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Global Warming: A Crisis Ready to Strike

Global warming is an increase in the earth's temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions. This results in an increased evacuation of greenhouse gases. “Short-wave solar radiation sinks into the Earth's atmosphere and warms ...

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Is Capital Punishment Justified?

Capital punishment, in my opinion, is something that in certain cases is justified. I am not against or in favor of capital punishment because I am not a person who wishes anything unpleasant in anyone’s life. Capital punishment should only be used on people that have committed crimes for murder ...

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Out of the Silent Planet

The book Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis gives us a view of the human condition from an outsider's perspective. The Christian concepts of sin, the heavenly host and the Creator are all a part of this story by Lewis. Here they are given a science fictional backdrop. In this story, we are ...

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Violence In Mass Media Increases Negative Behavior In Children Proposal

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, since the mass media have big influence on the children, it is getting harder to control their behavior. Mass media and its components are very powerful and can influence their mind, as well as their behavior. Children that imitate characters who use violence in the media ...

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Underdetermination in the teleological argument

The name “the teleological argument” is derived from the Greek word “telos”, meaning “end” or “purpose”. The idea is that it takes a "purposer" to have purpose, and so where we see things obviously intended for a purpose, something had to have caused it for a reason. In other words, design implies ...

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Hurricanes

Hurricanes Summer is over and fall has arrived- but many people to the south of us are observing another season- hurricane season. According to the Montshire Museum of Science, hurricanes usually occur in the North Atlantic from June to November, with most of them in September. On average, ...

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Letter To The Editor

Courtney Johnson @02577310 Letter to the editor Washington Post Editor: Kelly Williams 202-379-6371 Kelly.williams@wp.com Dear Editor, My name is Courtney Johnson and I am a senior public relations major, political science minor at Howard University. I wanted to take a moment and ...

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Should Animals Be Used For Scientific Research? Is It Humanly?

Throughout history, Man has used his intelligence to make animals work for him. The dog, for instance, is invaluable to Man for its faithful nature, its agility and its keen sense of smell. The blind uses the dog to lead them. The customs department uses Alsatians to sniff out drugs. Hunters use ...

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Literature review on Worster and Andrews

Aaron Hummel 04/25/2011 ENV HIS 2nd Lit Review Worster and Andrews This review will be covering two books that can be considered incredibly important when discussing modern environmental history. Killing for Coal by Thomas G. Andrews is a history of Colorado’s coal mines and focuses ...

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Boob Tubes

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochromatic (shades of grey) or multicolored. Images are usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming, television ...

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Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction

Psychology SL Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction February 4[th] 2010 Raz Budhathoki Abstract The aim of this experiment was to investigate whether people are influenced by leading questions. The investigation was a replication of the famous study of Loftus and Palmer (1974). In ...

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What is Ethnomusicology

What is ethnomusicology ? It's in human nature to be curious and to ask questions about the world around us, that is how the sciences emerge. Ethnomusicology is a study that asks questions about the music of the world and because music is one of the things that make us human being, it could be ...

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Evolution

Evolution is a hotly debated topic, as for it debunks almost every creation religion in the world and gives us the idea that our true ancestors are chimpanzees. Evolution means, simply put Biological Changes, changes in the gene frequency from generation to generation. Evolution itself has been ...

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Authorship, Post-Classical and Art Cinema Narration - In Reference to Robert Altman’s 'The Player'

Cinema Assessment Task 2 Authorship, Post-Classical and Art Cinema Narration In response to Q3 and referring to Robert Altman's The Player Robert Altman's 1992 film The Player is a savagely comic film that explores the cutthroat nature of the Hollywood film industry. The film, which ...

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