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Predicting violent action from threatening communication and behavioral cues

Our research had some important questions that were related of escalation or de-escalation of threats. This means we wanted to find out if a person making the threat would actually carry out that act i.e. escalate the threat to violent action.

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Physical discipline predictors in Chinese-American immigrant families

Lau (2010) examined the phenomenon of physical discipline in Chinese-American immigrant families. The research question asked; can the use of physical discipline be predicted by cultural values, contextual stressors, and their interactions?

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Melchizedek as a prefiguration of Christ in religious scholarship

Who Was Melchizedek? and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him one tenth of everything.

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University carbon emissions reduction strategy and targets

The university's goal is to reduce carbon emissions according to a strategy that calls for improved environmental performance according to the best practices found in industry.

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Racist portrayals of the South in Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind

Long hailed as one of Hollywood's cinematic masterpieces, Gone with the Wind was based off of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1937 novel of the same title. After it's release, Gone with the Wind the film won ten Academy awards and has earned over $1 billion in revenue to date

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Technology and postmodernity as drivers of twenty-first century social change

What factor(s) do you think will shape and/or determine the major social changes that will occur during the twenty-first century?

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The Federal Reserve's dual mandate and the limitations of quantitative easing

Economist talks about how the Federal Reserve's dual mandate of stabilizing prices and creating maximum employment is becoming less of a mandate and more of a background goal.

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Ted Bundy's corrupted id, ego, and superego

Sigmund Freud first introduced the concept of a structural model of the psyche in his 1920 essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and further elaborated on in "The Ego and the Id." Freud claimed that the psyche was composed of three parts; the id was the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the…

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Mental illness in the American prison system

There were a lot of things that were impressive about this video. One of the most impressive scenes is when the counselor is sitting with the inmates having a group therapy session.

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Barack Obama's accomplishments and case for reelection in 2012

History was made on November 4, 2008, when the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was elected president. He was the first African-American to be elected to the highest office in the land. He promised change: "I'm asking you to believe.

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