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Analysis of Susanna Sawyer's Crude Chronicles

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The paper "Analysis of Susanna Sawyer's Crude Chronicles" discusses Suzanna Sawyer's 'Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador' which is an attempt to bring the latest objects of analysis into the domain of anthropology.... ... ... ... The book narrates the struggles that exist between the indigenous social movements, the multinational energy company, and the Ecuadoran state....

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George Orwells Homage to Catalonia

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The paper "George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia" describes that book serves as a reminder that twentieth-century European history is a matter of peasant involvement in politics; passion and belief in a cause is the motivation behind Orwell joining up, and the motivation of many others.... ... ... ...

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The Most Significant 3 Pieces of Legislation in American History

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This literature review "The Most Significant 3 Pieces of Legislation in American History" focuses on Civil Rights legislation that finished what Reconstruction legislation started in terms of legally ensuring equality for Blacks.... It leveled the playing field for minorities, women and the disabled....

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Socrates Meets Descartes

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This book review "Socrates Meets Descartes" presents that philosophy refers to the study of the basic problem of life pertaining to a wide range of areas such as religion, education etc.... While Socrates is known as the Father of Philosophy, Rene Descartes is referred to as the father of modern philosophy....

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Personal and Private Information Exposures and Opportunities

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This paper "Personal and Private Information Exposures and Opportunities" discusses how private information is made available on the web and how it provides opportunities for exposures.... The rights of companies to share data and the rights to have private information protected shall be considered....

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Ethical Integrity in a Business

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This research aims to explore ethical integrity in business management.... Ethics is about doing what is right, fair and just.... Applied to business management, ethics refer to a set of principles and standards governing behaviors, values, and propriety of relational norms in managing a business....

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Race and Revolution by Gary Nash

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The paper "Race and Revolution by Gary Nash" highlights that an exceptional novel about blacks during the Revolutionary time.... This book takes on the hard subject of controversial issues of a country fighting for their freedom while oppressing another element of their population.... ... ... ... Black communities have lasted to this day....

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The Role of Vehicles in Tim Winton's The Turning

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The book review 'The Role of Vehicles in Tim Winton's 'The Turning' ' examines in detail such a topic as the role of vehicles in the Australian writer Tim Winston's storybook 'The Turning', showing how important the vehicles are for storytelling, how they can reveal characters, reflect their inner world, motivation and struggle....

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

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The paper "The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams" discusses that Davis J.... has pointed out that recollection can make a person strong 'through soothing affects that are evoked in recalling a declarative memory of a loving relationship with a parent or other important person".... ... ... ... The Glass Menagerie has contributed to research being conducted on nursing – the parallel between theatre and nursing is drawn on the basis that both are performing arts....

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The Context of Corporate Crime

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This paper seeks to develop a concrete explanation of what corporate crime is.... This paper also seeks to investigate adding gravity to corporate crime by shifting it from civil (in most cases) to the criminal spectrum and the motivating factors behind this push.... ... ... ... Corporate crime, according to Simpson, is a crime done by 'white-collars....

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Analysis of The Jungle Book by Upton Sinclair

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The author answers the questions about the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair which is largely a representation of the nature of life led by the immigrants in America in the early 20th century.... Darwinism in a social setting is represented in the book showing the 'survival of the fittest'.... ...

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Personal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys

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This book review "Personal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys" analyzes the work of a doctoral candidate at Washington University, Laud Humphreys, who researches what he referred to as "tea room trade" or the act of fellatio between two anonymous men in the public restroom.... ... ... ... It is generally acknowledged that Humphreys did everything in his power to protect the identity of his subjects, his involvement with law enforcement rendered that attempt precarious at best....

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Analysis of the Brain that Changes Itself Book by Norman Doidge

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The author analyzes the book, 'The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science' by Norman Doidge which is a path-breaking research material that focuses on the myths concerned with the care and cure of the human brain.... ... ... ... The case studies are presented coherently with the invention in the sector of brain science which makes the book more appealing and easy to comprehend....

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Carl Jung's Concept of Individuation

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The paper 'Carl Jung's Concept of Individuation' summarizes the philosopher's idea that everybody should get hold of the first stage (the shadow) and the second (anima/animus) before getting to the third stage (the Self).... 'Projection' on the people around points to the person's shadow essence....

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The International Handbook of Creativity

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This book review "The International Handbook of Creativity" analyzes the concepts of creativity in Kaufman and Sternberg's book The International Handbook of Creativity.... In their study, the authors have drawn some generalizations about how the world understands the concept of creativity.... ....

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The Use of Christian Symbolism in The Sixth Sense and The Matrix

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The review "The Use of Christian Symbolism in The Sixth Sense and The Matrix" suggests that while watching films, the next questions should be asked: Which aspects of religion are presented in the movies?... What is the purpose of the filmmakers in presenting religion?... What thoughts of religion have been strengthened, symbolized, opposed?...

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Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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This paper under the title "Ethnicity and Substance Abuse" focuses on the fact that findings indicate that ethnic groups have preferences for particular drugs.... Poverty, though an important cause for drug addiction, the affluent society does not lag behind in substance abuse.... ... ... ... Grace Ma writes, 'Substance abuse has four characteristics: (1) it is primary; (2) it is progressive; (3) it is chronic; and (4) sometimes it is fatal....

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Americans in Waiting, by Hiroshi Motomura

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This book review describes the immigration issue, that has been at the forefront of political debate for many years now through the book written by Hiroshi Motomura, named Americans in Waiting.... The researcher outlines the analysis of the three typologies for citizenship.... ... ... ... Hiroshi Motomura in his book, Americans in Waiting, attempts to answer questions and to demonstrate how in America's view and treatment of immigration, has actually created the issues now faced....

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Analysis of The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath

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From the paper "Analysis of The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath" it is clear that McGrath spells out what he used to accept: "By "irreligionist," I mean correctly what the saying has dependably been comprehended to mean – a principled and educated choice to reject faith in God.... ... ...

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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The paper 'Lord of the Flies by William Golding' focuses on William Golding who wrote the novel Lord of the Flies.... The setting of the novel is at the time when Europe is in the middle of a war.... A plane carrying a group of boys being evacuated from England destined for Australia is shot down....

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The New Jim Crow

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But if we have to follow the thoughts of Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, we would be led to find and believe that there are too.... ... ... Right from the introduction to the end, this book is a compelling narrative of how a large number of unsung blacks in the American society e still facing the ire of a white domain, which now looks to mark an African American a felon at the slightest hint of aggression, and then treat him or her with the same brutality that the racist society offered to blacks....

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Play Therapy with Families

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The author of this book review "Play Therapy with Families" touches upon the child development.... As the text has it, Axline presented the case of Dibs, a five-year young child, who was emotionally disturbed.... Dibs had been considered as an extra 'special,' which suggests of social barriers.... ...

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Culture in School Learning

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The writer Etta Hollins presents a process in developing a perspective in teaching that embraces culture as a central unit in school learning.... The book covers a six-part process that enables the teacher to meet the students' needs regarding different cultural backgrounds.... ... ... ... Discussion within the chapters is intended to generate discussions and critical thinking and not find answers to the questions....

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Lead Us Into Temptation- The Triumph of American Materialism

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The review " Lead Us Into Temptation- The Triumph of American Materialism" researches the upsurge of the consumption of goods and services in the United States has induced a new national culture and identity that once brought yearning, motivation and prosperity to American society but now seems to make people squander and suffer....

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The Inevitable Doom and Its Symbolism in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

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This book report "The Inevitable Doom and Its Symbolism in'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... describes the plot of this short story and main features of the Symbolism of Doom and it's an inevitability.... ... ... ... She became interested in writing after receiving Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a present from her grandmother....

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The War on Drugs In America

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An author of the following review attempts to discuss the development of the issue of drug abuse among American citizens throughout the end of the twentieth century.... Moreover, the writer seeks to investigate the relation between drug usage and rate of criminal activity in the US.... ... .... ...

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Product Placement Industry

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The author of this review "Product Placement Industry" discusses whether product placement in films and media should be controlled.... It is stated that while a beneficial relationship of the advertiser and the producer is achieved via product placement, the interests of the audience are neglected....

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Human relationships Between Soldiers in The Thin Red Line

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This work "Human relationships Between Soldiers in The Thin Red Line" describes a war film that depicts several levels of relationships.... The author outlines the hardships of war, the greater level of tension among characters.... From this work, it is clear about a crucible in which the emotions and relationships of these men are placed into an acutely defined state....

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Social Inequality in Movie The Help

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The paper "Social Inequality in Movie The Help" uses "The Help" as a good example of a movie that was able to show viewers the social struggles that were happening in the southern parts of the US, when Jim Crow laws were still being used as a guide in segregating the blacks and the whites.... ... ...

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The Dilemma Facing Developed Nations around the World

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"The Dilemma Facing Developed Nations around the World" paper aimed at providing information on how the government has participated in ensuring that effective health care is provided to the aging population with chronic illnesses such as dementia and cancer.... .... ... ... This report seeks to establish the deficiencies in the health care system in Australia that has contributed to inefficiency and low productivity in Australian hospitals....

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Production of Biofuel from Waste Paper

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This literature review "Production of Biofuel from Waste Paper" presents one of the most promising substitutes to the use of conventional petroleum-based fuels that is the production of biofuel from renewable resources like plant biomass (Guerfali, Saidi, Gargouri, Belghith, 2014)....

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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as a Feminist Film

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This movie review "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as a Feminist Film" discusses gender inequality and irrelevance observed within the society.... The film depicts not only political moral crimes but also stresses biased attitudes and the humiliation women face.... ... ... ... Conceived in Berlin in 1942, Margarethe von Trotta is two things: the most imperative lady chief to rise up out of the New German Cinema, and account film's principal women's activist movie producer....

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Gender Equality in the Historical Context

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The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... In reference to Wood (2005), since time immemorial disparities between the two sexes have been inexistent....

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A Critical Examination of the Concepts of Gender, Race, and Class in the Maltese Falcon

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The paper "A Critical Examination of the Concepts of Gender, Race, and Class in the Maltese Falcon" describes that the story of Sam Spade, and his relationships with women, and also a black private eye from Walter Mosley's novel to better understand the concepts in question.... ... ... ... For services he provides to Brigid, Spade extracts a hefty retainer, almost all of her money....

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The Life of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier

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The author of the paper "The Life of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier" will begin with the statement that San Francisco de Xavier was a saint and Jesuit missionary, universally identified in English as St.... Francis Xavier as well as referred to as the "Apostle of the Indies.... .... ... ... Francis was the youngest lad of Juan de Jasso, then a privy councilor to a king of Navarre, Jean Albert, and his spouse, Maria de Azpilcueta y Xavier, the only heiress of two loyal Navarrese families....

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The Healing Path Critique

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The review "The Healing Path Critique" focuses on the critical analysis of the Allender's book, The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life which stresses the influences of the pain that people often experience throughout their lifestyle.... ... ... ... Allender explains that an individual's life is difficult, but the means we often use to adjust to these challenges define the person we choose to depict....

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Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher's Approach to Anger and Aggression

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The author of the paper "Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher's Approach to Anger and Aggression" states that social and emotional learning (SEL) entails the use of supportive context and relationships which make learning challenging, meaningful, and engaging for children (McDevitt, et al, 2012)....

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Interface Evaluation Hardware Printers

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As the paper "Interface Evaluation Hardware Printers" outlines, usability is one fact that developers have realized that they can no longer avoid because it matters how effectively the interactive system is.... This has prompted user interface experts to look for techniques for evaluating the user interface....

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The Cyanide Spill in Romania

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This paper ''The Cyanide Spill in Romania'' tells us that a serious incident in January, the year 2000 occurred in Romania involving the release of cyanide into a river near a metal's recovery plant near Baia Mare, approximately 100,000m3 of sludge containing both cyanide salts and heavy metals flowed into the Tisza River....

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Approaches to Working with Communities and Skills when Working with Communities

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A number of professionals work with communities depending on the needs and aspirations in the community.... The author of this paper "Approaches to Working with Communities and Skills When Working with Communities" examines what community work entails.... ... ... ... This paper draws on various learning modules and critically combines a wide range of research to promote a personal understanding of communities, approaches to working with communities, and skills when working with communities....

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John Locke's Book, Second Treatise of Government

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"John Locke's Book, Second Treatise of Government" paper argues that at the start of his philosophical journey, John Locke took it as his mission to set out the grounds of knowledge, ethics, politics, and religion.... He took on a task of immense proportions that he has inherited from the rationalists....

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The American Invasion of Iraq

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The author of the present work "The American Invasion of Iraq" concerns itself with the criticism leveled against the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, by realists.... Several arguments proffered by the realists, in this regard, have been analyzed.... ... ... ... The outcomes of this invasion and the setbacks suffered by the US, on account of this invasion, have been discussed....

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Sex Workers and Their Specific Health Needs

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The paper "Sex Workers and Their Specific Health Needs" summarises the major characteristics of sex workers, their social-economic status, and health deficiencies.... It included knowledge about protection use and how these sex workers perceive the risk of getting viral diseases such as HIV.... ...

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Slavery and the Founders: Race, and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

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This book report/review "Slavery and the Founders: Race, and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson" is about the birth of the American constitution on the one hand and the establishment of slavery as an institution on the other, are both two key but contradictory elements in early American history.... ...

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The Non-Democratic Regimes

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This book review "The Non-Democratic Regimes" discusses nondemocratic regimes normally impose strict rules and conditions on the citizens.... In a non-democratic regime, citizens are normally denied most of their rights.... ... ... ... Even though research has found that most Islam countries are improving in their regimes, some are still stuck to their religious values....

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Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most

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The paper "Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most" is a perfect example of a management book report.... Having difficult conversations is not one of the things that are challenging in life.... There are different topics that make difficult conversations and how successful one handles them determines the experience and relationships that they will have later....

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Risk Assessment in Criminology

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The author of the "Risk Assessment in Criminology" paper critically discusses the usefulness of using static assessments to predict levels of risk in offenders.... Assessment is defined as a process of finding out about something to discover some issues.... ... ... ... Davies & Beech (2012) Reinforcing behavior change among the offenders need combined efforts....

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Major Disputable Issues on Vitiligo

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The review "Major Disputable Issues on Vitiligo" critically analyzes the major disputable issues in treating vitiligo, a type of disease that develops when a person loses control of the functional melanocytes.... It is a skin disease, whose cause or origin has still not been discovered properly.... ...

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Missed Opportunities in Dialogue between Psychology and Religion, by James M Nelson

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The paper "Missed Opportunities in Dialogue between Psychology and Religion, by James M Nelson" highlights that there is no way to physically test whether or not human behaviour is genetically inherited, yet scientists were content to speculate that human behaviour is inherited via the gene pool....

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Globalization: History and Political Science

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This literature review "Globalization: History and Political Science" explores a global process and a revolution concept including economic integration, policy sharing, knowledge sharing, cultural stability, reproduction, relations, and discourses of power or may sometimes be variously described....

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