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Teen pregnancy rates and prevention effectiveness in the United States

The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the developed world with 750,000 every year and the accompanying negative social and economic impact on the teenagers, their children, their families, the community and the nation.

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Counseling an eleven-year-old girl struggling with social isolation and low self-esteem

The case of Beth, an eleven-year-old attending the sixth grade at a local elementary school within her community, involves many of the symptoms common in cases where a child is simply within the wrong environment.

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Levinson's stage theory of human development and its philosophical foundations

What is the underlying philosophical paradigm of the practice theory? Why do you think this is the philosophical paradigm underlying this theory? Link the major assumptions of the theory to the ontological, axiological, and methodological assumptions of the epistemological paradigm.

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The bystander effect and psychological barriers to altruism

The "bystander effect" refers to the sociological phenomenon that believes that the more bystanders there are during an emergency, the less likely it is that any of them will actually try to help.

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Britain and France's imperial competition for control of Egypt

Britain and France locked horns over Egypt at the dawn of the New Imperialism. Both nations had significant interest in Egypt for reasons of money, pride and power; both nations staked claims to the area before the turn of the twentieth century.

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Teaching styles and student achievement under No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind was passed to improve the overall performance of students across America, with a focus on achievement on standardized testing (Payne-Tsoupros, 2010).

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Political party affiliation and health care system preferences

Democrats, Independents, and Republicans on current health care options, I would conduct a survey and analyze the results using the Chi-square test.

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Descartes' method of systematic doubt and the cogito

Skepticism is the definition where each and every aspect of one's knowledge -- including belief of one's reality is questioned.

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Bullying victimization by race, gender, and perceived isolation in schools

The destructive ramifications of bullying behavior in schools has become an issue of national (and even worldwide) concern for the safety of students.

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Understanding synesthesia: cross-sensory perception and neurological mechanisms

What is synesthesia? Synesthesia means "joined perception" (Phillips, 2010). In the simplest terms, synesthesia refers to a condition in which a person has cross-sensory experiences, such as seeing colors in sounds, tastes, smells, cutaneous experiences, or even numbers or letters of the alphabet…

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