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Teacher burnout among physical education educators: causes and consequences

Aaker (1991, p13) it is the general aim of all researchers not only to discover new information but as much as possible to build on what other people have already done in the field.

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Marguerite Duras's "The Lover": autobiography, coming-of-age, and literary resistance

Though it won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in the same year it was published, Duras re-wrote and re-published The Lover under different names no less than twice throughout her career.

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Neurobiological mechanisms of pair bonding in prairie voles and primates

Pair bonding is the fundamental process that influences evolutionary selection in monogamously inclined species. As such its importance cannot be understated in any evolutionary model.

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Michelangelo and Rodin: artistic visionaries and innovation

One of the most common catch phrases of our day is "think outside the box." Every generation assumes this is a new responsibility they must assume in order for things to progress when the truth is most innovative thinkers, creators, and artists thought outside the box all the time.

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Robert Frost's use of nature as metaphor in "Birches"

Poetry is how some authors express their feelings about a subject or attitude that is occurring around them. The poems by Robert Frost that have been studied all discuss how man and nature are separate from one another. He uses nature as a metaphor to explain a situation with man.

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Split brain surgery and hemisphere consciousness in epilepsy patients

"Even more startling was Paul's ability to write answers to questions asked of his right half-brain.

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The concept of self in Rogers, Freud, and Jung

The concept of self is one of the major themes of personality studies. Personality can be defined as the totality of the behavior and emotional characteristics of an individual.

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The American Civil War and the origins of modern warfare

In Hagerman's book, we see that in many ways that the American Civil War was the first modern war, at least in the area of technology and the deployment of mass citizen armies.

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Religious transformation in the 1920s and 1970s: Dumenil and Schulman compared

According to Dumenil's The Modern Temper, the 1920s resulted in a "modern" society because of the culmination of late nineteenth century industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. Far from monolithic, a burgeoning working class rose alongside the new era of middle class women.

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Immanuel Kant's epistemology and moral philosophy in the Enlightenment

The eighteenth century stands as the birthplace of the modern world. Influenced by the scientific advancements in astronomy and gravity in the seventeenth century and in art and literature in the sixteenth century, the eighteenth century sought to fuse together all the improvements in human thought…

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