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"According to current statistics, about 40 million Americans currently live in poverty. These individuals face many challenges, from an inability to afford food and shelter to greater health problems due to lack of proper care and nutrition. The US government provides a variety of programs to help the poorest Americans. Yet people are divided on the best ways to address this social problem. The merits and drawbacks of various approaches are discussed...
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"Social media facilitates the creation and sharing of information and ideas online, through electronic devices like smart phones, laptops, personal computers, or tablets. Today, an estimated 2.8 billion people around the world use social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, or Instagram to engage with friends, family members, and even strangers. Yet, the growing role of social media in everyday life has raised challenging questions...
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Until 1865, millions of slaves worked on plantations and small farms throughout the southern United States. The most common image is of slaves forced into difficult labor on cotton or tobacco fields. However, some plantation slaves were proficient craftsmen, trained in metalworking, carpentry, or other specialized skills. Others were house servants, who cooked and cleaned for their white masters. This book will give readers a better understanding...
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"The criminal justice system in the United States is highly complex, and includes both the activities of law enforcement officers as well as court proceedings. Often, social and economic factors come into play in the arrests, trials, and rehabilitation ofAmericans, and many people recognize that there are problems with the system. This book explores whether bias based on race, sexuality, gender, and/or socio-economic status exists in the courtroom...
5) The Fix
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You've been matched! After spending the day feeling the love at the Cupid's Choice Valentine's Day Festival, head over to The Diamond Royale for Diamondville's second annual Lock & Key Blind Date Event. Find the person with your matching number at the mixer, get to know them over an opulent five-course dinner, and if things go well, get to know them in the biblical sense in the luxurious accommodations of the hotel. Remember, Cupid is also the god...
6) Education
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Each year, more than 56 million students attend elementary or secondary schools in the United States, while another 20 million are enrolled in institutions of higher education. Education reform advocates consistently look for new ways to improve the nation's school systems, but the road ahead presents many challenges. This book explores major issues in education today, including the pros and cons of the Common Core curriculum, the benefits of charter...
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Not everyone gets bit, but everyone changes.
When vet tech Sydney went to work, she didn't expect the zombie apocalypse to crash through her shift.
No electricity.
No phones.
No way to leave.
At Second Chance Animal Hospital, the confinement, tension, and fear will change the employees into monsters, worse than the undead zombie dogs scratching on the doors trying to get in. Sydney and the other techs will learn secrets about each other and battle...
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An emotion driven dark fantasy.
Katie's friends, family, and loving boyfriend have kept her from drowning in a sea of crippling anxiety. Now, a handful of medications help her through the stressful college life.
Until Matthew.
Katie becomes inexplicably and unnaturally drawn to him. Her decisions no longer feel like her own. Thrust into his world of secrets, manipulations, and betrayals, she is swept up in a torrent of emotions she can't control....
10) Beginnings
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Who am I? That is the question always on the minds of the seven orphans who were raised together in the Sylvan cottage. War had separated them from their parents and as it once again threatens to consume all of Ilia they must choose the path they will walk. They all must fight in order to survive but only one road leads to a heroic destiny filled with grace, hope, truth and love. The other ways are one in the same for they are replete with empty promises...
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