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Climate Change, Global Warming, and Related Issues

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This paper "Climate Change, Global Warming, and Related Issues" discusses the following as among the symptoms of climate change: cold nights and frosts have become infrequent while hot days and nights have become frequent inland areas, heavy precipitation or rains have increased in many areas.... ...

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Red Sorghum by Zhang Yimou

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The main criticism that was voiced against China in the film is based on the idea of tradition.... China is seen as one that represses the true nature of individuals through tradition, culture, society and politics.... Throughout the film, there is the inability for the.... ... ... The film is able to question the values that are a part of Chinese culture, specifically because it moves outside of the expectations that are a part of the 2....

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Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting and Culture

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This paper "Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting and Culture" discusses racism today and the relationship between whiteness and race in modern society.... For many in the UK and in the United States, racism is an ever-present aspect of the social condition and is built upon a rigid social code....

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The French Revolution

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This essay compares and contrasts the similarities and differences in the approach and attitude of these two female poets to the French revolution.... It also examines how the differences in the backgrounds of the two poets could have played a role in their different responses to the carnage associated with the French revolution....

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Organization Development and Change Management

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The author of this essay "Organization Development and Change Management" describes change approach of organization development and power and politics in organizations.... This paper outlines leadership.... aspects of organizational change, and resistance to change.... .... ... ... For an organization to survive and grow in the ever-changing environment it operates in, it is important for an organization to adapt to changes and formulate policies and strategies which are fit for the changing environment....

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Global Warming - Evaluation of Sustainability Strategies

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The research paper 'Global Warming - Evaluation of Sustainability Strategies' highlights the current status of greenhouse effect and ideas to rectify the situation.... The author wetlands in Mangrove as a perfect example of a damaged ecosystem due to human activities.... ... ... ...

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Homosexuality in the US Military

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This paper, Homosexuality in the US Military, stresses that the Commandant of the U.... .... Marine Corps, General James Amos expressed his concerns regarding the proposed changes in the 'don't ask, don't tell' law, changes that will allow gays to openly serve in the U.... .... military.... ... ... ...

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Josephine Baker and her Contribution to the Civil Rights Movement

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The following discourse is a comprehensive assessment of the significant contribution of Josephine Baker to the American Civil Rights Movement and what she did to help lessen racial discrimination and oppression against African-Americans.... It is made up of a historical account.... ... ... It is important to note that Josephine Baker's career as an entertainer and actress did not prevent her from pursuing the more noble tasks of fighting for the rights of her oppressed countrymen....

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Visit to a Catholic Church: Saint Mel Parish

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This essay "Visit to a Catholic Church: Saint Mel Parish" examines the elements of a Catholic Mass from a sociological perspective.... In addition to the sociological analysis, it discusses and examines the various religious significance of the rituals in the mass.... ... ... ... The ceremony I chose to attend was a Catholic Mass....

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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The essay 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln' is devoted to such dark moments in American history as the assassination of the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865), the motives of the murderer, and the consequences of this tragic event.... ... ... ... At first, Lincoln was not successful; in the end, he won the nomination and eventually won the presidential election in the United States....

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Critically Analyse the Claim that Humans Are Political Animals

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This paper talks that claiming that humans are political animals is true given the process through which human beings interact and coexist in their entire period of life while participating in various leaderships and rules.... Human beings also have the ability to create and develop communities which are very complex and larger than just simple families....

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The Production of M. Butterfly and the Reflection of Culture

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In the report, it is stated that M.... Butterfly is one of the highly acclaimed and popular Asian American plays produced in the 20th century.... The vital strategies of comprehending M Butterfly rely both on the political contexts between China, North America, and Europe and on the Orientalism culture of politics....

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How Facebook Helps Communication

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This essay "How Facebook Helps Communication" discusses Facebook that already changes the way of communicating, it makes people more easily to contact others.... Nowadays, living in an era of fast rhythm, so Facebook is a good application suit for people to use.... ... ... ... It makes people talk to each other every time they want, it proves a platform lets people share knowledge or some points, and it a good application to makes more friends....

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Role of the State in British Industrial Relations Since 1980

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The essay "Role of the State in British Industrial Relations Since 1980" focuses on the rules and regulations that influence the employment relationship and the role of the state during the interventions.... Industrial relations in Britain are characterized as voluntaristic.... ... ... ... Since 1979, the industrial relations in the British system have been reformed by continuous interventionist legislation symbolized with labor market attempts and re-regulation to foster a competitive economic environment....

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Mass Media System As Described By Niklas Luhmann

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The essay "Mass Media System As Described By Niklas Luhmann" is based on Niklas Luhmann's theory of 'The Reality of the Mass Media' which is an extension of his theory of social systems into analyzing the role played by the mass media in creating social reality.... It reveals the twofold reality of the media between its own internal system and the reality it provides for the society externally....

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How Influenza A causes Epidemics and Pandemics

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The pandemic has been estimated to reoccur after every 50 years on average.... The epidemics take place more regularly where seasonal influenza occurs yearly in many parts of the globe at.... ... ... Influenza A virus is the most prevalent root of seasonal influenza.... At the time influenza A virus goes through antigenic shift, a pandemic distressing many parts of the world can happen within a spur of months (Evans and The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic which was the most distressful outbreak of influenza in history and considered as one of the most critical disease pandemics ever experienced came about as a result of H1N1 which is a subtype of influenza A virus (Hays, 2005)....

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Michelangelo

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He was a man characterized as independent, many-sided and relentless in his undertakings and views.... He was categorized as among the highly determined men.... ... ... He worked tirelessly till his late years, at the cost of individual sacrifices.... However, he was not unproductive to the point of unreasonableness....

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Originality in Modernism and Postmodernism

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The essay analyzes originality in modernism and postmodernism.... Most artists struggle with the problem of originality.... Often it seems that everything one can do in any art form has already been done, and every story has already been told in one form or another.... ... ... ... The purpose of this essay is to explore the fact of originality in modernism and postmodernism....

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Crime Fiction: Facts vs. Fiction

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This research paper describes the process of development of crime fiction, in which the events have taken place in real life with real people, mostly in the United States of America and compares the differences between crime fiction and real life crimes.... In this research paper author compares crime fiction and real life crimes, that happened in the United States, describes advantages and disadvantages of fiction....

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Film-making of Some Films

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This work called "Film-making of Some Films" describes historical contexts, themes/ narrative aspects, and stylistic/visual characteristics to create a virtual reality world of heroism in the films like Spider-Man by Sam Raimi, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider by Simon West and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee....

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Discussion on the Economic Implication of Decision to Purchase a House

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This essay gives a discussion on the economic implication of decision to purchase a house from which the author expects to gain of value and the decision will, therefore, be based on the difference between the cost incurred to obtain the house and its value.... ... ... The author focuses on purchasing a house which is an economic decision that requires rationality....

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What Is Globalisation and How Does It Challenge World Politics

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This paper talks that globalization is perhaps one of the central components in the modern society that has revolutionized how people across the world interact.... However, the concept of globalization is so wide in both theory and practice that there is no single definition of globalization.... ...

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Comparison and Critical Analysis of the Marketing Strategies Used by Dominos Pizza and Pizza Hut

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This paper is a comparison and a critical analysis of the marketing strategies utilized by Domino's Pizza and Pizza Hut to achieve competitive advantage in the UK market.... The author states that in order to achieve the targets, the company has to employ different strategies in its market niche....

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Life Outside the Earth

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This term paper "Life Outside the Earth" attempts to answer the question of whether life as we know it is possible in any other planet by looking at the key conditions in selected solar system planets and moons with a view of determining whether life is permissible in the highlighted conditions.... ...

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Reality and Technology: A Cyberpunk Fictional Story

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"Reality and Technology: A Cyberpunk Fictional Story" paper argues that cyberpunks utilize science in a way that enables the viewer and author to have active, imaginative imagery bordering on reality and science fiction.... It asks the audience to imagine how far technology can go if given a free rein....

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Philosophy, Enlightenment and Education

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This report, Philosophy, Enlightenment and Education, presents education is a widely considered concept on the global realms and for policy makers in this field, the incorporation philosophy such as by Plato helps in expounding the concept and its adoption by children.... .... ... ... In this essay, the core concept shall be on the highlighting the reasons why Plato put much emphasis on the controlling of the children's exposure to aesthetic influences in early education....

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Child Physical Abuse

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The focus of this paper is to look at the issue of child physical abuse, its effects on children and the entire society and ways of preventing the abuse among children.... Child physical abuse can take many forms including kicking, punching, biting, slapping, choking children as a form of punishment....

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Affluence: Is it a Solution to the Environmental Crisis

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The "Affluence: Is it a Solution to the Environmental Crisis" paper tries to prove that affluence is part of the solution to environmental problems.... The author states that although brutal growth, without doubt, causes an environmental crisis, zero growth is not a solution as such.... .... ... ...

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Nike and its Approach to Corporate Responsibility

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The essay 'Nike and its Approach to Corporate Responsibility' will discuss a conceptual framework that will explain the approach of Nike, Inc.... to corporate responsibility.... Corporate responsibility helps an organization to adopt health business and corporate model.... ... ... ... The author explains that in the year 2004, Nike, Inc understood that no single corporation can attain systematic change alone....

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The Concept of Networking

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The paper "The Concept of Networking " highlights that in general, the DNS concept is a technique through which the DNS address provided to the main server of an organization can be translated into an IP address for easy recognition over the World Wide Web.... ... ... ... Generally, the concept of the 'Address Resolution Protocol' (ARP) and the 'Media Access Control' (MAC) can be described in a correlated manner....

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Migrant Communities and Migrants Integration

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Available at: http://research.... This paper discusses the integration of migrants and the formation of communities in an era of heightened state security.... The rationale of this essay is to analyze the effects of integration of migrants or forced migrants and migrant communities over a state with heightened security....

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Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

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A paper "Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains" reports that on completing her college education she began writing fiction stories having being influenced by her dad.... In the year 1874, she published her first literal works titled 'Flirts and their ways'.... ... ... ... Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains is an intellectual work done by Mary Murfree....

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Epistemology: a Comparison of the Concepts of Knowledge

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The document seeks to make a comparison of the concepts of knowledge (epistemology) as contributed by various philosophers (Plato's, Rene Descartes, David Hume's, John Locke's and Berkley's theory of knowledge) in their past works.... ... ... The paper focuses on epistemology which is concerned with studies of the known theories....

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The Legalization of Gay Marriage

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The author of this paper discusses the issue of the legalization of gay marriage.... The author states that the issue of gay marriage must be legalized as gay couples have the same right in society and these couples can create a virtuous grounded family.... .... ... ... The issue of gay marriage has been regarded as one of the controversial and it made it to the forefront of all nationwide headlines....

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Success of Bretton Woods Institutions

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The essay "Success of Bretton Woods Institutions" focuses on the critical multifaceted analysis of the success of the Bretton Woods institutions in terms of the intent of their establishment, the way of their design, and the development of their activity.... ... ... ... Nowadays, the existence of a deeply connected globalized world seems to be an obvious fact that determines all the activities in the contemporary international system....

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The Medium Is the Message - What Marshall McLuhan Meant By This Statement

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This paper 'The Medium Is the Message - What Marshall McLuhan Meant By This Statement" focuses on the fact that elucidating the aphorism, 'the medium is the message', Marshall McLuhan asserts that the content of the media is inherently shaped by the medium.... .... ... ... The media changed a lot in its journey from the print to internet medium via television medium....

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International Relations: Structures of International Governance

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The author of the paper critically assesses the relationship between intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.... The governments continue to resist regional mechanisms, the forces of NGOs Activism and globalization are eroding their ability to do so.... .... ... ... Regional networking has proved to be indispensable for NGOs....

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Interview with a Colombian Woman

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In the paper 'Interview with a Colombian Woman,' the author examines the condition of women in Colombia, which is similar to that of any other Western societies: problematic.... However, the position of Colombian women is made more complicated by particular forces specific to the country.... ... ...

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Governments Involvement in Local Tourism

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The author of this essay "Government's Involvement in Local Tourism " describes policies for fair use of and preservation of the local tourism resources, benefits and negative consequences of tourism.... .... ... ... Tourism is a major socio-economic force in most countries that depend on tourism activities....

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere and Every Tongue Shall Confess

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An author of the present essay will analyze the personalities of the main characters from the books "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" and "Every Tongue Shall Confess".... Specifically, the essay explores how the unacceptance of certain human traits by society can affect its individuality.... ... ... ... The life of Dina, in 'Drinking Coffee Elsewhere', learning the niceties of life, is an ongoing process....

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Revolutionary Leadership in Russian Revolution and the Arab Spring

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The author of the following assignment seeks to draw a comparison and contrast between the role of revolutionary leadership in the Russian revolution and the Arab spring throughout the history.... Therefore, this paper will focus on describing and analyzing these cases.... ... ... ... Throughout the history, rapid revolutionary events had often changed to the core the political systems of seemingly stable countries....

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Modern Business in Comparative Perspective

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The purpose of the following paper "Modern Business in Comparative Perspective" is to describe how convincing is Porter's model of national competitive advantage in explaining the characteristics and performance of the business systems of major economies.... ... ... ... The term economic system refers to the organized manner through which a state or nation allocates its incomes as well as distributing goods and services in the said state or nation....

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The Division of Labor in Society

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This paper "The Division of Labour in Society" focuses on the fact that change is a fact of life.... It is inherent in human nature, culture, and nature.... It is the only constant thing that organisations have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.... There are factors in the environment of the organisation....

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Comparing the Use of Objects as Narrative Devices in Art Exhibitions and Films

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Through the exhibitions 'Poetry and Dreams', and 'Ahistorical Sounds' and the films 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Queen', "Comparing the Use of Objects as Narrative Devices in Art Exhibitions and Films" paper explores the similarities in these mediums, in their use of objects to tell a story.... ... ... ...

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The Energy Crisis in 2050, Global Warming, Renewable Sources of Energy and Types of Geothermal Energy

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This research is aimed at providing a report on issues of environmental studies like the energy crisis in 2050, global warming, renewable sources of energy (wind power, hydropower, geothermal energy, biofuel, biomass and solar energy) and types of geothermal energy etc.... This research will begin with the statement that the world of 2050 refers to a time of paradoxes and contrasts....

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Major Flaws of Justice System of America Depicted in The Last Line of Defense

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The purpose of this essay is to review a rhetorical article written by Raymond Bonner entitled "The Last Line of Defense".... The writer of the essay claims that the article lacks objectivity, neutrality, and impartiality because it solely revolves around one-sided stance.... ... ... ... Investigative journalist, Raymond Bonner, in his rhetorical article, 'The Last Line of Defense', censures the criminal justice system....

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Platos and Aristotles Political Ideologies

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The essay "Plato's and Aristotle's Political Ideologies" focuses on comparing and contrasting Plato's and Aristotle's political philosophy works.... First, Plato primarily aimed at explaining the nature of things in a theoretical manner through metaphysics and in contrast to the actual terms.... ....

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Jeffery Dahmer Case

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In the research paper 'Jeffery Dahmer Case' the author analyzes the case of Jeffrey Dahmer who was responsible for a series of gruesome murders of 17 young men and women from 1988 until he was caught on July 22, 1991, in Milwaukee.... ... ... ... According to Tru Crime Library, Detective Patrick Kennedy was the person who gained Jeffrey Dahmer's trust and hence plummeted into the depths of his degeneracy....

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In the Name of Love: Safety Not Guaranteed Movie and Midsummer Nights Dream Play

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Based on the movie, Safety Not Guaranteed and the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, the author puts into perspective some of the things that love can make them happen in the lives of individuals.... Love is a multi-faceted abstract thing that is customizable according to the individuals in question....

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Arlington Detention Centre Visit

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The paper "Arlington Detention Centre Visit" describes that in 1998 an incident occurred in the Facility where an officer sexually assaulted an inmate.... This was not taken lightly and the Arlington County Sheriff's Office began an act for the prevention of sexual assaults within confinement in 1998....

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