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ESTJ personality type: characteristics, strengths, and potential weaknesses

ESTJ personality type, including a brief description of Passive-Aggressive as a potential personality disorder to this personality type. The ESTJ personality stands for Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test.

~5 min read

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Religion and healthcare: historical conflict and modern scientific evidence

Spirituality and religious faith have been challenged almost continually since cultures of differing religions have come into contact with one another, a point on the proverbial human timeline that is actually impossible to locate.

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Festinger and Carlsmith's cognitive dissonance experiment reviewed

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance, by Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1957), (Lesko, pgs. 115-123). Write a brief review of the study, and be sure to answer the following questions: What was the hypothesis in the Festinger/Carlsmith experiment?

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Aging and mortality in Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom. Specifically it will discuss the essence of aging portrayed in the book and existential psychology.

~8 min read

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Stress and coping mechanisms among international university students

There are as many areas of stress and time pressures in the world as there are areas of study, and there have been a wide variety of studies conducted on the effects of stress and how human beings handle such effects.

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The Beast of the Ukraine: Andrei Chikatilo's criminal history

The case of Andrei Chikatilo will go down in criminal justice records as among the most bizarre and bloodthirsty cases in history. Chikatilo was known as "The Beast of the Ukraine," and for good reason.

~9 min read

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Biological and psychological determinism in serial murder

There are several theories which claim to explain why we act the way we do. The way we behave has been attributed to biological factors as well as psychological factors.

~3 min read

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Deception and incommunicability in Hemingway's Soldier's Home

Like many other of Hemingway's works Soldier's Home reflects the destructive effects of war on the lives of the former soldiers. In his short story, Hemingway emphasizes the impossibility of conveying or sharing the experience of war with the people that have not actually participated in it.

~4 min read

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Press coverage of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial

The murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks and the subsequent arrest and trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were heavy on the minds of the public in 1924, as the sensationalism of this extreme case were evident even to those who were closest to it.

~18 min read

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NASCAR's evolution: sponsorship, branding, and expanding regional markets

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is one of America's favorite past times, but predominantly synonymous as such with areas of the Midwest, South and Southeast.

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