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Parental involvement and student achievement in low-income schools

The assumption of this study is that the parents with a low socio-economic status are less involved in their children's education than parents of higher socio-economic status.

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Sexual violence against women in armed conflict and testimonial literature

The classic notion that women are weak and unfit for battle riddles gender politics, and this has many times dictated the treatment of women over the course of time.

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False memory formation in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm

The experiment was designed to investigate the ability of participants to create false memories of words that were related to the words they heard in a list. The aim of the experiment was to study and examine how reliable human memory is.

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The 2005 Cronulla Beach riots and public communication strategy

In December 2005, Australia would go through a series of racial riots that would rock the communities of Sutherland Shire and Bankstown to their very core. These are two completely different suburbs of Sydney that would share Cronulla Beach.

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Cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy compared

Traditionally psychotherapy has been a lengthy process with clients spending years working with a therapist as they explore their past and attempt to untangle the ways in which that past continues to shape (often in unconscious ways) their present.

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Visual learning styles and effective study techniques

People learn in many ways, like observing, listen to, and practicing things for themselves. Normally for the majority of people, one of these ways stands out as being the best for them (Fleming, 2010). For me the best learning style is that of visual learning or learning through seeing.

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Navigating cultural barriers in pursuit of therapeutic practice

My path to becoming a therapist has not been a straight one: There have been both barriers and detours. At the time that these roadblocks occurred I was frustrated and discouraged, sometimes to the point that I decided that I would simply pursue another career altogether.

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Glossolalia in the New Testament: language, translation, and interpretation

Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is a vocalizing (sometimes writing) of speech-like syllables as part of religious fervor or practice. It is controversial, even among the religious; some consider it to be meaningless ramble brought on by a euphoric state, and others part of a holy language.

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Individual differences and behavior management in classroom learning

For this reason and others, it is integral that instructors nurture the brain's development, watering it with rich language and activities supportive of the enlightened disposition. As William Shakespeare enunciated, "all the world's a stage."?

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Biosphere 2 and the challenges of closed ecological systems

This is also true when we use logic, but incomplete data, to make a prediction about something we think might happen in the natural world (Erickson, 2005, 94-8).

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