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Racial and cultural identity in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands

In her book Borderlands: The New Mestiza (1999), author Gloria Anzaldua, a self-proclaimed "borderland Chicana," writes about her experiences living on the border between Texas and Mexico. She describes the experience as being challenging and frustrating because of the conflict of the borderland.

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Housing solutions for mentally ill individuals in Tennessee

Housing for the Mentally Ill: Psychological Effect and Sociological Factors That Determine How Mentally Ill People Are Incorporated Into Society

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Psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive approaches to Lamanda's depression

From a psychoanalytic perspective, Lamanda is suffering from ego identity confusion (Erikson, 1968) that is manifesting itself in symptoms of depression, marked by a lack of interest, anxiety and social isolation.

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Employee motivation and workplace management at Flagler

Personalizing Productivity is a fairly straightforward morality play about the role that treating employees well has on motivation. This article oversimplifies the issue of motivation, but does tap into one important aspect of motivation.

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How working mothers manage stress across multiple roles

The "overall conclusion seems to be that what matters most is the quality of a working mother's experiences in her various roles"

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Supervised and unsupervised learning in machine learning

In computer science, supervised learning is a technique, usually machine language, that is used in the process of deducing a function from a data set. Typically, the data sets contain pairs of input objects (usually vectors) and desired outputs.

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Sigmund Freud's life and psychoanalytic career

Sigmund Freud is commonly known as the "father of psychoanalysis." Although many of his ideas and paradigms have been outmoded by subsequent research, he is recognized as the first to recognize a link between behavior and the brain.

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Racial identity and lived experience in African-American culture

The readings on ethnography suggest that when approaching a personal narrative on ethnography one should formulate "an ethnographic topic study" -- and for me that would entail putting my life, my ethnic culture, my employment and my socially-related culture into some perspective.

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David Burns's Feeling Good: neurology, mood, and depression

The author, David Burns, is a medical doctor and the former Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Freud and Erikson's theoretical perspectives on personality development

One of the more interesting aspects of Freud's approach to understanding the brain and how it operates in the daily lives of humans was his use of topographical comparisons to illustrate his main themes, even going so far as to "map" these regions as they related to his constructs of the id and…

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