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Data collection methods in phenomenological research

State the method then explain/Illustrate. Phenomenological research is grounded in the personal and subjective perspective. It falls into the larger category of qualitative research which is not theory-driven, but rather discovers the relationships among phenomena. (Patton, 2002).

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Sebastian Haffner's perspective on the rise of Nazi Germany

Reflecting back on World War II, it is impossible to think that one man had rallied a nation to exterminate an entire race of human beings, in a systematic, diabolical and deliberate way.

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Managing never events through staff communication and validity assessment

Let's look at this in detail.

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Key theorists who shaped the field of public administration

From the theories of public administration birthed in the past five to six decades, the field has taken the best principles and conceptual frameworks yet avoided a theoretical hegemony.

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Humanistic and existential psychotherapy approaches to client psychological growth

Humanistic learning theory as explained by Lipscomb, & Ishmael (2009 p. 174) emphasizes feeling, experience, self-awareness, personal growth, and individual / psychic optimization. Learning, from this perspective, is positioned as both social process and psychological/intellectual endeavor.

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Psychoanalytic principles for treating psychotic disorders

Abramson, R. (2010). Psychotherapy of psychoses: some principles for practice in the real world. The Journal Of The American Academy Of Psychoanalysis And Dynamic Psychiatry, 38(3), 483-502. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

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Behavioral, constructivist, and cognitive learning theories in adult education

Specifically behavioral, constructivist, and cognitive learning theories are examined.

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Chaney Allen's alcoholism and recovery in "I'm Black & I'm Sober"

It's is no surprise that Chaney Allen's character resembles her as an African-American alcoholic who grew up in a poverty stricken neighborhood and known as one of the town drunks had became powerless in her addiction as she struggles with addiction, symptoms, recovery, including Alcohol Anonymous.

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Marxist and formalist approaches to American literary criticism

Bennett, Tony. Formalism and Marxism. Routledge, 2003. In the United States, Marxist literary criticism was most important during the Great Depression in the 1930s, especially during the era of the Popular Front up to the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939.

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William A. Smith's study of facial asymmetry and cognitive specialty

Hemispheric and Facial Asymmetry: Faces of Academe" (1998), researcher William A. Smith examines the correlation between facial symmetry and cognition. Facedness, which he describes as facial asymmetry, exists in all faces.

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