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Understanding English idioms: definitions, origins, and learning challenges

An idiom is a phrase that when the words are taken together they have a different meaning from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. This is what makes idioms hard for ESL students and other learners to master (English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions, 2009).

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Hypnopaedia and sleep learning: can audio instruction facilitate language acquisition

Hypnopaedia: Can We Sleep and Learn? The concept of learning during sleep is an old one, yet with little solid proof and testing to back it up.

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Quality of life in elderly patients with chronic renal failure

The patient in this case study is known as Mrs. E.S. She was admitted to the Renal Medicine Unit on the September 25, 2009, after a diagnosis of renal failure. The patient was born on the 31st of July 1922. Her weight at the time of admission was 77.270kg. Her height is 162.6cm.

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Female serial killers: Belle Gunness, Nannie Doss, and Aileen Wournos

For many years, people assumed that serial killers were male. This assumption was partially accurate, as the killers who preyed upon random strangers were generally male.

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Parental alienation syndrome examined through family systems theory

Parental alienation is stated to be a term that has been coined for the purpose of describing "a phenomenon that occurs when a child becomes allied with one parent and disparages or rejects the other." (Appell, nd) This is generally known to occur in "cases of high conflict divorce." (Appell, nd)…

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Enright's forgiveness therapy model with young married couples after infidelity

Enright's Forgiveness Therapy on the Success of marriages of Couples Ages 18-34 After Infidelity Forgiveness is hard thing to achieve in full honesty. Yet, it is an important step in moving past an act of infidelity or other injury.

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Amadou Hampate Ba's use of didactic storytelling in Tijanyya tradition

The objective of this study is to examine how Amadou Hampate Ba uses stories as didactic tools on the mystical ways of the Tijanyya tradition.

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Defining child sexual abuse and incest: legal and conceptual gaps

Child sexual abuse is an extremely common phenomenon in the United States and unlike what most people believe, 80% children are sexually abused by a family member while 19% children are abused by those they trust and are comfortable hanging out with and only 1% children are abused by a stranger.

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Arguments for lowering the legal drinking age to 18

Health professionals, educators and public officials have argued that underage drinking is a serious sociological concern and a major public health crisis in the United States.

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Family processes, self-control, and criminal behavior in two cases

the major cause of delinquency and crime over the life course is low self-control and the major cause of low self-control is family processes of informal social control… at no point in the life course should informal social control have a direct effect on delinquency

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