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The link between pesticides and childhood obesity

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence has more than tripled in the last thirty years.

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Jazz innovation and African-American social change through musical evolution

Within every genre of music, there are innovators who continue to push the edge of that genre. Classical music had innovations in every generation, from Bach, Haydn and Beethoven to Stravinsky, Bernstein, and Shostakovich.

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Humanism and Renaissance music: transformation through equal voices and church modes

Throughout the history of music there are those ideas that have the ability to unite the classic forms of composition with modern day thinking. As these two elements have often been utilized to create a new genre that changes the way everyone thinks and feels about the sounds they are hearing.

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Teacher roles in teaching English as a second language

Teacher's Roles in Teaching English to High School Students in Relation to Language Proficiency Students with English as a second language (ESL) make up a substantial amount of the people of this nation's schools.

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PTSD prevalence among veterans with comorbid bipolar and anxiety disorders

Most often the veterans who had experienced some type of abuse came from "home backgrounds characterized by marital dysfunction, impaired parenting, and impaired parent-veteran relationships and from families in which there are parental adjustment problems." The adolescents were interviewed by us…

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Motorola's project network design for competitive cell phone development

Over the last several years, Apple has been dominating the cell phone market with their popular selling I Phone. However, for a short while the Motorola Razor would challenge the I Phone for dominance.

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Truth-telling and memory in O'Brien's The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's novel, the Things They Carried may be categorized under fiction in libraries but aspects of the novel reach into areas of non-fiction as O'Brien attempts to express what happened to him in Viet Nam.

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The Boston Massacre: tensions, taxation, and the path to revolution

Boston Massacre is often described as the first shot on what would eventually become American soil, as the 'shot head around the world'.

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Immigration waves and social welfare strain in the United States

This movement involved the immigration of individuals from mainly eastern and south, south eastern European countries, the British Isles, and Western Europe.

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Clinical dieticians' roles across acute, long-term, and outpatient care settings

In preparation for this fieldwork report, I visited and spoke with clinical nutritionists at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, an acute, in-patient care facility; Cobble Hill Health Center, a long-term in-patient care facility; and Long Island College Hospital's Atlantic Hemodialysis Center, an…

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