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Amadou Hampate Ba's use of didactic storytelling in Tijanyya tradition

The objective of this study is to examine how Amadou Hampate Ba uses stories as didactic tools on the mystical ways of the Tijanyya tradition.

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Defining child sexual abuse and incest: legal and conceptual gaps

Child sexual abuse is an extremely common phenomenon in the United States and unlike what most people believe, 80% children are sexually abused by a family member while 19% children are abused by those they trust and are comfortable hanging out with and only 1% children are abused by a stranger.

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Arguments for lowering the legal drinking age to 18

Health professionals, educators and public officials have argued that underage drinking is a serious sociological concern and a major public health crisis in the United States.

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Family processes, self-control, and criminal behavior in two cases

the major cause of delinquency and crime over the life course is low self-control and the major cause of low self-control is family processes of informal social control… at no point in the life course should informal social control have a direct effect on delinquency

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Ethical management and recruitment practices at NatHealth Nutrition Inc.

NatHealth Nutrition Inc. is a commercial organization that provides comprehensive food services to businesses and other organizations.

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Observational assessment of a six-year-old daughter's developmental stage

Playing quietly alone on the floor with two dolls -- Barbies. Subject entirely unconcerned with the fact that they are without clothes. Has a wooden pizza in pieces (different ingredients, etc.) on the floor also. Barbies are going to make a pizza.

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Freeman's theory of time perception, intention, and causation in human action

Perception of time and causation through the kinesthesia of intentional action" by Walter J. Freeman III (2008) addresses issues of time perception and relates these to causation and intention in human action.

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Children's identification with aggressive media characters and violent video games

This statement pretty much shows us how children, in this case a seven-year-old, copes or reduces his own fear by pretending he is Freddy Krueger. The child concludes that through this mechanism, he successfully overcomes the feeling of being scared.

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Reality therapy and other counseling strategies for substance abuse

"This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." "Don't drink and drive." The slogans are familiar, yet these Madison Avenue buzzwords have not eradicated the problem of substance abuse in American society -- or the problem of substance abuse around the world.

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Causes and psychological effects of intergenerational versus isolated abuse

An Investigation and Analysis of the Common Identified Causes and Effects of Intergenerational Abuse Intergenerational abuse, abuse that appears to be an inherited behavior passed from one generation in a family or other close relationship of individuals to the next, has been identified as a major…

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