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Bill Hillier's theory of spatial configuration in architecture

Hillier, Bill. "What Architecture adds to Building?" From Space Is The Machine: A Configurational History of Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Pulte Homes: corporate strategy and consumer-focused business model

Pulte Homes is one of the strongest contemporary examples of corporate America. As a corporation, Pulte Homes has some impressive statistics to boast about. In 2003, the average price of a home that it sold was $241,000.

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Albert Ellis' rational emotive behavior therapy approach and applications

Albert Ellis' REBT is a Relative Emotional Behavior Therapy where it provides help with people cope with their difficulties in life and thus improve their individual growth. Basically, REBT follows building blocks of therapy, based on the online source, http://www.counselingceusonline.com/rebt.htm:

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Theory and practice differences between art history and studio art

One of the areas in which this difference is most apparent is in the visual arts. For example, an art history class is vastly different from an art studio class.

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Abortion access and women's rights to choose

While legal aspect of abortion has been the subject of extensive debate during the last 35 years, abortion itself has been around for thousands of years. The religious and social moral codes have played a major role in both preventing and encouraging abortion.

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Social networking quality, rumination, and depressive symptoms in young adults

Frequency and quality of social networking among young adults: Associations with depressive symptoms, rumination, and corumination, (Davila et al., 2012), two studies were done in order to examine the associations between social networking and depressive symptoms among youth.

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The five-factor model of personality traits and behavior

There are several theories that surround the human personality, the way that humans react, learn, and interact with the world.

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The theory of consumer choice and scarcity in economic decision-making

Economics is about scarcity. The word 'scarcity' is used here in a special sense: it refers to a state of affairs in which, given the wants of a society at any particular moment, the means available to satisfy them are not sufficient.

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Internal representations and psychological development in object relations theory

What exactly is 'Object Relations Theory'? What does it deal with? What is it about?

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Familial and environmental influences on African-American job market prospects and work life quality

Previous studies suggest that African-Americans spend much of their time engaged at work and that the quality of work life reported among African-Americans at best has been described as plagued by inequality and lack of opportunity or stability (Riley, 2005; Tuch & Martin, 1991; Wilson, 1996).

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