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Teaching history to modern students through multimedia and alternative media

The way teaching history and social sciences to students of the modern era has to undergo a change. There is no place for the old style of books and hundreds of pages of history cramped into one to two text books.

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Psychopathic personality traits and leadership styles in U.S. presidents

Lilienfeld, S. O., Waldman, I. D., Landfield, K., Watts, A. L., Rubenzer, S., & Faschingbauer, T. R. (2012). Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership.

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Workplace protections for sexual orientation discrimination under FEHA and ENDA

As the new assistant to the human resources director, I would define the term sexual orientation as an individual's patterns of romantic, sexual and emotional attraction, as well as his/her sense of social and personal identity founded on these attractions.

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How conflict theory explains social inequality and criminal behavior

No two people are alike, even when they are from the same family, let alone from the same ethnic, religious, cultural, or national backgrounds.

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Personal meditation practice plan for mental and spiritual wellness

The human spirit can be compared to a powerful motor having its own vibration. It is not a power I could "turn on" but a loving power that I could awaken and utilize. Also, it is not a power over which I have control; instead it is a loving presence to which I could safely submit.

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Obedience to authority in the Milgram experiment

Ever since the first and second world wars, people have wondered how others could commit the acts they did for as long as they did. The Nazis for example, did atrocious things to the Jewish people and continued to do so until the end of World War II.

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Cultural bias in psychological perspectives from Freud to Augustine

No psychological perspective is really free of cultural biases, as every perspective is rooted in something, whether it is Freud's perspective rooted in his own cultural experience or Augustine's rooted in (more anciently) in his own.

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Social discrimination laws and nursing's role in prevention

Social discrimination is a form of bigotry in which social decency toward or against an individual or group is based on social impression of their outlook, beliefs, or behavior.

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Depression across the lifespan: a developmental perspective

Depression is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon affecting multiple age cohorts.

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Ross Anderson's security engineering approach to protecting systems

Appreciating the Concept of Security Engineering In the book ‘Security Engineering,' Ross Anderson does an in-depth look at the various systems that are needed to deal with either malicious behavior, mishaps or erroneous behavior.

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