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Establishment clause challenges to public funding of instruction in parochial schools

Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S.402 (1985). New York City used federal funds from a Title I program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to pay salaries of public school employees teaching in private parochial schools in the city.

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Soliloquies and the revelation of character in Shakespeare's plays

When Characters Stop Being Polite and Start Being Real: The Importance of Soliloquies in the Works of William Shakespeare

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Correlation between teen dating violence and depression and anxiety

Teen dating violence is an unfortunate reality for many teenagers across the United States. It can include a number of different types of abuses that have serious ramifications on the physical and mental health of the victims of such abuse.

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Rock and roll's emergence in response to 1950s social change

Clearly music is as an integral part of a society's history as a widespread phenomenon of everyday interactions and occurrences. It has existed as early as humans themselves.

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Cultural awareness and effectiveness in military operations

Culture is a universal human phenomenon; it is impossible for an individual growing up in a given community not to be indoctrinated into that particular culture's attitudes and beliefs, even if they consciously resist such indoctrination.

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Starbucks' strategy and challenges during the 2008 financial crisis

S&P 500 company analysis and recommendations: How Starbucks has coped with the 2008 recession Even firms not directly involved in the real estate, insurance, and credit markets were impacted by the 2008 credit crisis and subsequent market meltdown.

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Open source forensic software as a significant development in digital forensics

Of the many new technologies introduced into digital forensics in the last five years, open source forensic software has been the most significant in its contributions to forensic analysis, the prevention and solving of crimes.

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Female imagery and motherhood concepts in hip hop culture

Hip Hop culture and artistic expression relies heavily on female imagery, although there are valid reasons to suggest that much of it is negative, portraying women in a manner that is disrespectful and even misogynistic.

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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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Defining abnormality in contemporary psychology

What is abnormal psychology? The concept of abnormal psychology implies a controversial question: what is normalcy?

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