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A discussion on Romanticism as a new cultural orientation in the early nineteenth century.

Looks at why the western part of the Roman Empire fell but the eastern segment continued as the Byzantine Empire.

Examines if international asylum policy and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) intervention effectively determines domestic refugee protocols as in the case of the Libyan uprising including Malta.

A comparison of the health care systems in the United States and Germany.

A critique of the rational actor model in light of today's trend towards globalization and a world trading empire.

Argues that the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century demonstrates that diseases are neutral beings, which do not choose the social, religious, economic, gender or age of its victim.

Looks at the way that the global economic crisis has affected the German economy as reflected by current condition of the German construction industry and the company Strabag AG.

The paper examines the symbolism and influence of the swastika and how its meaning has changed through the ages.

Looks at the Swiss decision to ban the minarets of Muslim masjid in light of the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant.

Compares and contrasts the American and the British political systems.