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    MIBURN was the Codename of an FBI case in 1964. MIBURN is short for “Mississippi Burning” which is also the title of the director Alan Parker’s movie from 1988. The movie is occupied with the occurrences from the original FBI case and gives us a general view of what was happening. However‚ that might not be as true as we think it is. According to “The Guardian” the movie is not very political and historically correct. Actually‚ the writer of the article’s exact words was: “The Mississippi burning

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    Why did mechanization revolutionize patterns of both production and consumption? Human Labor had been the prior and only source of production of goods till mechanization was achieved. Mechanization has been defined as the process of replacing manual labor (in the form of human/animal labor) by the use of machines (also known as automation) which may or may not depend on a human operator on a wider scale. Technology had just reached breakthrough heights when scientists and inventors established

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    By:Samailagi Poteki Production and Consumption in the Raw Substitution is present in our everyday lives‚ and maybe much more than we once thought. Marx’s idea of commodity fetishism is loosely defined by substitutions‚ stand-ins‚ and clones of real objects and real labor. These commodities tape off and block out the public form the truth. In this essay I will peel back the label on some of these products and companies that have sold us lies time and time again. We are the martyr to the capitalist

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    Structured Report on the Health Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption. Introduction: The importance of the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables as a means of preventing disease has been known since at least 1747 when a ships surgeon‚ James Lind carried out an experiment which conclusively proved that citrus fruit prevented scurvy. According to Lind‚ scurvy caused more deaths in the British navy than French and Spanish arms combined. He gave some crew members two oranges and one lemon

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    alarming figures. At the current rate of consumption‚ the coal reserves on Earth will be spent within 110 years. Global reserves of oil and natural gas are even lower‚ and will be spent within the next fifty years respectively. Despite these statistics suggest that fossil fuels are a reliable long-term energy source‚ these numbers are misleading. Due to global population and energy needs are steadily increasing‚ it is only natural that the consumption rates of fossil fuels will rise accordingly

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    american nationalism‚ it is not what started the French and Indian war that is important. Instead‚ by focusing on the American’s view of the British during this time‚ the growing nationalistic ideas leading to the American Revolution are more apparent. Alan Brinkley‚ “It forced them‚ for the first time‚ to act in concert agianst a common foe. The friction of 1756 -1757 over British requisition and impressment policies‚ and the 1758 return of authority to the colonial assemblies‚ established an important

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    Throughout the whole world‚ everyone has different ways of how they see and deal with criminals and punishment. In the mountain region of Albania specifically‚ crimes are handled differently than modern society is used to. Gjorg gets involved in the blood feud after Zef Kryeqyqe kills his brother and he makes the hesitant‚ but brave decision of going after him in order to win back respect and honor for the whole family. This is gets people involved in generation long blood feuds but it is all seen

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    Alan Goldman’s piece‚ ‘A Refutation of Medical Paternalism’‚ contains an argument for why medical paternalism is wrong. Goldman argues from the idea of ‘The Relativity of Value.’ Explain this particular argument and show how it is an argument against medical paternalism (be sure to first define what medical paternalism is). Do you think this argument is correct? Why or why not? In biomedical ethics‚ the concept of patient autonomy versus is a huge consideration. This autonomy is often contrasted

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    Footprint Calculation CO2 Emission‚ Energy Consumption and Water Consumption due to Pavement Construction and Usage Darío Enrique Romero Santana Department of Civil and Construction Engineering‚ Western Michigan University 4601 Campus Drive‚ Room G-249 Kalamazoo‚ MI 49008 United States Introduction Footprint is defined as the “measurement of how much land‚ water and natural resources a person‚ city‚ country or humanity as a whole requires to produce the resource it consumes”‚ (Edelman Darym)

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    Edgar Alan Poe is an American writer‚ who is best known for his fondness for macabre‚ dualism of the world‚ mysterious atmosphere and incomprehensible events. He also likes to put very complicated and complex characters into his stories. In The fall of house of Usher Poe introduce us to Roderick Usher‚ one the main characters in the story. Roderick along with his twin sister Madeline are the last standing descendants of the Ushers. The family was prestigious and rather a wealthy one‚ but some

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