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Does media violence cause real-life youth violence?

Is television alone responsible for 10% of youth violence? (Statistics, 2005) Does society need to "shoot" or annihilate the messengers who bring literal and "real-life" acts of violence and bad news?

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The Whorfian hypothesis and second language learning: academic perspectives

How relevant is the Whorfian Hypothesis (WH) - also referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - to language learning, in particular for the person who learned (or is learning) English as a second language?

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Counselor gender and client behavior change in counseling

To improve the effectiveness of counseling to promote behavior change, scholars and counselors continually explore and study it.

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Psychological profiles and commonalities among serial killers

Serial killers [...] Jeffrey Dahmer, Arthur Shawcross, Randy Craft, Aileen Wuornos, Bobbie Sue Terrell, and Jane Toppan, and explain their behavior from a psychological standpoint.

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Contrasting European views of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya

John Lonsdale writes in the Journal of African History that while the legacy of the Mau Mau has lived in British memory "...as a symbol of African savagery," modern Kenyans are divided over whether the Mau Mau represented a "militant nationalism" against England, or just a kind of "tribalist…

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Video gaming history from Halcyon to the 1990s

The objective of this work is to research the history, advances, concerns and future of video gaming and to cite at least 10 scholarly sources in the research.

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Smoking among Canadian youth: social factors and rebellion

They have attempted numerous efforts to curb smoking, many of which not only has placed financial, social and political strain upon cigarette manufacturers but also increased revenue streams for the government.

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The flood narrative and Mesopotamian values in the Epic of Gilgamesh

One of the earliest extant works of world literature and myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh also preserves one of the earliest known accounts of the Flood. As such, Gilgamesh provides antecedents to the story in the Judeo-Christian Bible.

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Special education teachers' expectations and NCLB standardized testing impacts

Special Education Teacher's Impressions Of High Stakes Testing And How That May Impact Preparing Their Students To Take Those Tests

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Gender differences in early childhood education and boys' academic performance

Improving the Academic Performance of Males in Early Childhood Education to Foster Greater Success in the Future.

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