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MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass slaughter of the Fancher Baker emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by a local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Native American tribe on September 11, 1857. It began as an attack, quickly turned ...
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The Survival Rates of A.I.D.S. Patients Over Last Two Years
The demographics of HIV patients are shifting, with the average age of those infected with HIV ever-increasing due to longer life expectancy and higher survival rates. In fact survival rates have risen to as high as 91% in some markets. However ...
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African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing yet another example of the universal brotherhood of humankind. This volume includes a number of such tales, among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Greedy Hare," "The Tortoise and His Broken ...
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Church discipline it's biblical basis and historical practice
Church discipline it's biblical basis and historical practice
"Anthropologists tell us that there are three things that distinguish humanity from other animals - religion, the use of abstract language and the making of tools." (Pick One, p.13) Religion has been one of the most ...
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Environmental Issues
Environmental Issues
Global warming will not only be felt many decades from now it is already happening and its impacts are clearly visible. This paper gathers examples from the peer reviewed scientific literature of recent impacts around the world. These include increases in extreme weather events, rising sea level, disappearing glaciers and polar ice, damaged coral, ...
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MARINE ECOLOGY
Marine Ecology
Marine Ecology
Introduction Many discussions of ecological and environmental issues involve evaluating the evidence for or against a temporal trend. For example, is the abundance of a particular population increasing, remaining approximately constant, or declining over time? The data to answer this question are often a sequence of annual ...
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Social Programs and Policy
Social Programs and Policy
The most well-known figure in control theory is Travis Hirschi, who emerged around 1969 from his "hellfire and delinquency" studies (Hirschi & Stark 1969) on religion and crime as a pioneer in social control theory and the method of self-report studies. Hirschi's (1969) book ...
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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF DELINQUENCY
Sociological Theories of Delinquency
Sociological Theories of Delinquency
Edwin Sutherland s Differential Association Theory is an approach to crime that states that it is a learned behavior. Differential Association Theory in its most basic form claims that if an individual is in close contact with crime than he/she will ...
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Ethics in Outsourcing Jobs
Outsourcing is the delegation of tasks or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a subcontractor). Most recently, it has come to mean the elimination of in house staff to staff overseas, where salaries are markedly lower. It became a popular buzzword in business ...
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Vegetarian And Meat Eaters
Vegetarian And Meat Eaters
Meat intake has been decreasing over the past few decades, and this is largely due to health professionals promoting a diet that involves reduced meat consumption. However, this is unlikely to be very healthy when you consider that the human species has evolved ...