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Vocational education and high school dropout rate prevention

"I'm dropping out of high school...." Unfortunately, this quote, which relates to the introductory citation by Gray, occurs too frequently in high schools.

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The effects of illegal drug use and trafficking on society

Drug use and trafficking are both extremely harmful to society, but most of those harms are either direct or indirect consequences of their illegal status.

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The subjective nature of reality and social constructs

Human beings are the product of their experiences. While this is equally true of all biological organisms, the fundamental difference between the human mind and other higher forms of biological life is that humans are unique in their capacity to think about their lives (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2005).

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Homelessness in America: wealth inequality and historical causes

Globalization represents in the last decades a source of prosperity and economic growth throughout the world. It is already a generally accepted fact that the process itself is has made industrialized countries thrive as well as developing countries reemerge on the world economic spectrum.

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The Mozart effect and its healing benefits on the human brain

The work of Don Campbell (1989) entitled: "The Mozart Effect" relates the story of Campbell's healing as well as many other healings through sound and music. The music of Mozart is healing to human beings as well as other life forms.

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Teaching mathematics: moving beyond the skill-drill-kill approach

Science and its modes of studies are very much reliant on the mathematical techniques which have been heavily evaluated over the past few years. Numerous studies like the ones conducted by Mike Cass et al. (2003) and Lynn T.

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Reactive humans: the Anasazi collapse and modern technology addiction

New York Times, by Benedict Carey, "Who's Minding the Mind," he explains that a considerable number of research studies on human cognition have found that human beings are more reactive than they might think.

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Social support's role in channeling frustrated need constructively

It is often claimed that certain negative outcomes of frustrated need can be countered by social and institutional support. According to much research the outcomes of abject poverty can be varied for the better with increased social and institutional support. (Ellwood, 1988, p.

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The Salem witch trials and colonial American witchcraft beliefs

While in New England laws and religion aimed at undermining the "Great Enemy of God and Mankind," in England there was considerable tension between King and Parliament, tension which would result in warfare.

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Self-disclosure in relationships: the social relations model

Self-disclosure refers to both the conscious and unconscious revelation of one's thoughts, feelings, experiences and other personal matters (Sprecher 1987). Self-disclosure begins from the time one person meets another. It continues as their relationship develops.

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