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Structural Family Therapy and adolescent adjustment in post-divorce families

Abelsohn, D. & Saayman, G.S. (1991). Adolescent Adjustment to Parental Divorce: An Investigation from the Perspective of Basic Dimensions of Structural Family Therapy Theory. Family Process, 30(2), 177-191.

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John Locke's theory of consent and natural rights

"The Natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule." John Locke

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Strategic team selection from Chinese historical women figures

You're particularly concerned about women voters, and want to put together a team that will help you strategize on how to understand and appeal to women voters. The seven people below have applied. Which three of them would you hire for your team and why?

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Leslie Bennetts' critique of mothers sacrificing careers for childcare

Leslie Bennetts (2007) vents her rage on the system that compels mothers to stay home and forgo career dreams and opportunities of higher wage in order to care for their children.

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Solitary journeys and personal choice in "The Road Not Taken" and "A Worn Path"

There is a lot of similarity in the works of Robert in his poem "The Road Not Taken" and the short story by Welty "A Worn Path." Frost composed the poem in 1916, whereas Welty wrote the short story in 1941.

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Friedman's Dell theory versus Duiker's fragmentation thesis

Flat, Thomas Friedman argues in favor of what he calls "The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention." William Duiker is not so sure about the trend toward globalization, saying that it may be offset by a simultaneous trend toward fragmentation.

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Erik Erikson's theory of lifelong development and identity formation

The work of Erik Erikson is like that of Freud it touches upon the individual growth but while Freud analyzed himself, and stated the growth in terms of the very infant, after which he assumed that the mind does not adapt or grow, in the sense of the personality, except ego, though himself an ego…

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Liberty and violence in Enlightenment political philosophy and theory

The social and political ideals of the modern Western world are founded on a notion of liberty, expressed dissimilarly (and with varying degrees of approbation) in the writings of Rousseau, Mill, Burke, Tocqueville and others.

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Arthur and Millhauser on writing, perception, and imaginative worlds

Arthur argues in (En)trance that there is no one correct way to right, contrary to what he might have believed earlier in life. As such, he describes, it is possible to truly open up the world if one embraces their own very nature. In Phantoms, Millhauser asks us to do much the same thing.

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Fragmentation and objectification in Carl's Junior commercials

Contemporary commercials have presented the viewer with some truly startling and sometimes graphic images. In recent years, Carl's Junior/Hardee's commercials have made heavily sexualized commercials their veritable calling card.

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