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Learning journals as critical reflection tools across student populations

Langer, A. (2002). Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education. Teaching in Higher Education 7(3): 337-51.

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Cultural and environmental perspectives on intelligence

Intelligence is a concept that has numerous meanings across time, geography and culture. Typically, most of the definitions connect some sort of skill, plan or understanding of concepts, new things, etc. -- and the way that knowledge is combined with other ideas to form something new or adaptive.

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Childhood abuse and adult psychological development in Erikson's psychosocial stages

According to McGrath (2003), "In almost every case of significant adult depression, some form of abuse was experienced in childhood, either physical, sexual, emotional or, often, a combination." Child abuse can cause a wide range of deleterious effects in adulthood, impacting the ability to form…

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J.C. Penney's "Every Day" pricing strategy and retail transformation

J.C. Penney was founded in 1902 by James Cash Penney, and by 1907 he had purchased full interest in three locations, moving his company headquarters from Wyoming to Salt Lake City in 1909. By 1912, there were 34 stores in the Rocky Mountain State areas.

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Comparing Piaget and Vygotsky's approaches to child cognitive development

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky were both born in 1896 in Switzerland and Russia, respectively. Both men were born at the turn of the 20th century, one of the greatest and most prolific centuries in modern history.

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Cultural diversity in theories of human development

Theories permit us to determine the world around us coherently and also to act in the world with a reasonable approach.

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Parental neglect and emotional repression in Raymond Carver's "Nobody Said Anything"

Teenage sexual frustration and repressed anger pervade Raymond Carver's short story "Nobody Said Anything." Although the bulk of the tale covers the narrator's playing hooky from school, the fishing expedition serves mainly as a dramatic and symbolic backdrop for his parents' marital problems.

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Apollonian and Dionysian duality in Mann's Death in Venice

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a writer goes to the title city in order to find inspiration and to ease his writer's block. During his time there, he discovers and then becomes obsessed with a young boy who he sees as incomparably beautiful.

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Autonomy-supportive coaching style and prosocial athlete behavior

Autonomy-Supportive coaching style is more effective for female than male athletes in team sports. Gender is a concept which connects directly to the sense of how receptive or non-receptive humans are likely to be regarding all forms of coaching.

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The historical evolution of drug addiction in America

Addiction is an age old phenomena which has existed and has been persistent over the centuries, only difference has been it being acknowledged.

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