The Drug Enforcement Administration provides a comprehensive resource guide to the drugs they prohibit in their 2011 edition titled, "Drugs of Abuse". ... Firstly, cannabis has been proven to have medical value by thousands of peer-reviewed studies. ... In order to gain legislative legitimacy, a series of well-funded studies must be conducted by the government in order to make a conclusion. ... The Harm Principle creates the responsibility to make laws against property crime and violence which allows for a civil society to run peacefully. ... African American communities suffer from ...

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While in Boston he met Coretta Scott (1927-2006), a young singer from Alabama who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. ... During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.... Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights A...

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Contemporary study of the partition and the formation of Pakistan itself is not as poetic. It can be argued that Pakistan is the result of the British seeking support for World War II. ... Jinnah implemented spiritual guides from Sufi shrines to bring legitimacy to his campaign as well. ... With the negative economic effects that the war had caused on Britain, it became imperative for them to establish a successor government that would impose order. ... However, modern study, presents a differing argument. ...

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Letting his emotions show, Mandela demonstrated to the world that he was guided not only by wisdom and principles, but through empathy, as well. ... The studies of Bogardus (1927), Katz and Kahn (1978) and Collinson (2005) speak to the heightened RoL influence that distance and separation can have on followers. ... It seems should his enormous personal presence vacate the equation, the rival factions would fall directly into confrontation and perhaps civil war. ... In the absence of any contrary information, it appears they pinned the entire hopes for national race reconciliation on one 72 y...

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Mythology can be defined as the study and interpretation of myth and the body of myths of a particular culture. ... Oedipus itself is an interesting study of mythology. ... This study exemplifies the conflicts and dynamics of the unconscious psyche. ... This form of society proprietary is the guiding principle in contemporary literature, identifying regulations and acceptable behaviour. ... Xena borrows imagery and ideology from ancient pluralistic Greco-Roman civilisation, where blending of mythologies and civil concerns gave rise to individualised cults and philosophies. ...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... Levine's study, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, suggests there was a "widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity by ...

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Since the country has recently emerged from a deadly civil war and the effects of terrorism are still prevalent, it is understandable how easily Chiquita fell into these unethical practices. ... They are intended to guide the daily actions of all employees and provide a context for strategic business decisions. ...

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Instead, the Rashidun, the "rightly guided" Muslim leaders who were closest to the prophet, namely Umar, Uthman and Ali, took the reins of Islam, beginning a campaign that would, within two centuries, make Islam the dominant religion in the Middle East. ... Warring factions were a way of life, so establishing a consolidated and stable state was an ambitious task. ... This led to Islam's first civil war. ... The ulama consists of Muslim scholars, judges and legal advisors who study and implement Islamic law. ... The Ottoman Empire emerged from a group of ghazis, Muslim warriors, who wa...

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Peter was best known for his intellectual scholarly and philosophical ideas probably due to his becoming a brother, in 1932, in which his life involved studying the gospels, the lives of saints, Catholic teaching, and the writings of many philosophers. ... The publication of the newspaper became very successful and began the Catholic Worker movement, which also addressed the issues of social justice guided by its religious principles regarding the dignity of the person. ... She participated in its resistance to war and in 2004 when she was arrested with seven other Catholic Workers for cross...

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Douglass's devotion to abolitionism led him to confer with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and after the war he fought for the rights of women and African-Americans alike. ... In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... Although, th...

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Keywords Hoshin planning, Process Improvement, Strategic planning The primary focus of Leadership within an organization is to guide decisions and integrate priorities to ensure corporate goals are met. ... (Mogharei, 2012) History Following the end of World War II, the Japanese military, political structure and resources were in devastation. ... One of MacArthur's first accomplishments was to develop the Civil Communication Section (CCS). ...

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