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Tituba's journey from Barbados slavery to the Salem witch trials

La nouvelle francaise intitulee "Moi, Tituba Sorciere…Noire de Salem" est une histoire comme il y en a deja beaucoup trop. L'action se deroule a une epoque ou les personnes de couleur etaient percues de maniere negative et, plus souvent qu'autrement, utilises en esclavage.

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Ontological and cosmological arguments for God's necessary existence

The necessary existence of God implies that God must in fact be infinite, perfect, omniscient and timeless. According to the theory of necessary existence, being is itself a divine quality.

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Self-evaluation processes and standards in nursing practice

Self-evaluation is the process by which one assesses his or her own work quality. Self-evaluation of nursing practice is when a nurse evaluates one's own strengths, weaknesses, skills and abilities (Krockrow and Christensen, 2003).

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Spirituality, personality, and mental health in online psychology research

This study is being conducted by Dr. Human-Friedrich Unterrainer, Department of Psychology, Karl-Franzens, University Graz, Austria in collaboration with Heythrop College (University of London), United Kingdom. The Heythrop Ethics Review Board (University of London) approved of the study.

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Proposal writing for grant funding and RFPs

Writing proposals is a specialized skill that has a wide range of applications in the workplace. Writers may be able to find full-time, part-time, contract, or freelance work for organizations such as medical centers and educational institutions.

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Chicago's wastewater and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone

Lydersen, Kari. "Three Environmental Groups to Sue Water District." New York Times. 5 March, 2011. Retrieved online: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06cncpulse.html?ref=earth

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Comparing psychiatric facility and CT scan equipment investment proposals

While both do eventually reach a point of profitability, the higher return-on-investment of Proposal 2 (950%) versus Proposal 1 (47%) makes it a more financially lucrative investment over the total four-year period currently under analysis.

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Apuleius's Golden ass and post-Jungian psychotherapy for masculine integration

Jungian psychologists, and those who have followed them and constitute the much more loosely defined group of post-Jungian psychologists, have long found a rich source for clinical interventions in the realm of myth and fairy tale.

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Susan Bordo's analysis of male beauty and objectification in advertising

Cultural concepts of beauty have "(re)discovered the male body," according to Susan Bardo. The male body has gone underground, Bardo notes, due to a combination of homophobia and misogyny.

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Linking instruction and assessment through portfolio-based curriculum

In many ways especially right after the implementation of the NCLB legislation at the beginning of the high stakes testing movement this link was ignored in favor of making certain through rote memorization exercises that students would be prepared for assessments.

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