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Walter C. Kaiser's messianic interpretation of the Old Testament

Kaiser, Walter C. The Messiah in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995. The question of how to 'read' the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures has proved vexing for Biblical scholars of all faiths, levels of orthodoxy, and persuasions.

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Peer pressure and social influence on teenage behavior

The process of social influence is marked by an individual's feelings, thoughts, or actions being affected by those of other people. Degrees of social influence are exemplified by such occurrences as conformity, peer pressure, obedience, socialization, and persuasion.

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Street racing in American youth culture from James Dean to today

Street racing has existed for generations. Actually, one could say that it goes back to before the invention of the automobile when horse and buggy racing was popular among the rebels of society, such as in the movie, 'Friendly Persuasion' when Gary Cooper rebelled against his Quaker roots and took…

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Sarah Connor and the monomyth pattern in Terminator films

The Greek hero monomyth, as discussed by Joseph Campbell and others, is a concept and storyline that dates back to the tragedies and tales of the Greeks. However, to suggest that these basic storylines and traits are not used today (and used pervasively) would be incorrect to say the least.

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The war on drugs: financial and social costs of a failed policy

Opening facts and statistics to grab the reader's attention. Development of main ideas, leading to thesis. The war on drugs must be stopped for two main reasons: the financial costs, and the social costs.

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Social identity and human agency in Beckett and Nabokov

The human is not a self-sufficient entity, but is built through social conventions. This notion reveals itself in the transitional postmodern works by Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov -- specifically, in Lolita and Waiting for Godot.

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Identifying human trafficking victims for healthcare and social service intervention

Quite often, victims are not forthcoming about their situation and it is the social worker, not the victim, that must initiate the necessary proceedings to ensure that justice is done.

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Race and Ethnicity in News Media: Bias and Representation

Explores how race and ethnicity have been misrepresented in American news media from radio's Vaudeville era through modern local television broadcasts.

Communications

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Evolutionary psychology and mate selection in human behavior

What is evolutionary psychology? How does it explain mate selection? Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an advance that looks at psychological traits such as memory, perception and language for a contemporary evolutionary perspective in regards to social and natural sciences.

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Singapore's low fertility rate and psychological reactance to government incentives

The total fertility rate in Singapore has declined to a record low of 1.22 in 2009 and 1.16 in 2010 from 1.28 in 2008. The problem of the low fertility rate is common across the three major ethnic groups in the country.

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