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Plagiarism detection and correction in Cynthia Crossen's work

For this exercise in recognizing and avoiding plagiarism, Cynthia Crossen's Tainted truth: The manipulation of fact in America (Crossen, 1994) was correctly quoted and then shown to be unwittingly plagiarized by a student.

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Critical analysis of scholarly writing and the digital divide

Prompt: One of the great breakthroughs in the past 50 years has been the widespread availability of the personal computer. This powerful learning tool has revolutionized everything from commerce to education and changed the very way everyone conducts his or her daily lives.

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Biological and humanistic approaches to personality development

There are six approaches for studying the personality development of a person. Two of the most popular ones are the biological and humanistic approaches. The other four of these approaches include the trait, cognitive, behavioral and psychoanalytic.

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Police coercion and false confessions in the Central Park Jogger case

Matthew Johnson's The Central Park Jogger Case - Police coercion and secrecy in interrogation (Johnson, 2003), posits the reasonable theory that police interrogation is "ripe for abusive treatment" and the equally reasonable position that custodial questioning should be entirely recorded and…

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Erikson and Rogers on identity conflict in Chaim's lifestyle choice

Chaim is a Hasidic Jew who hung out in the underground scene and became a very creative underground rock star. However, Chaim was internally conflicted: the underground lifestyle was the polar opposite of his Hasidic lifestyle and he tried to live Hasidic-by-day and underground rock-star-by-night.

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Similarity, attitudes, and the basis of interpersonal attraction

The aim of the various researches carried out on how individuals interact and form either positive or negative relationships. To fully investigate these issues, Bryne (1961) highlighted the need to acquire knowledge about the various independent variables.

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Gender equality and discrimination in contemporary business workplaces

Traditional gender roles have defined the business lives as well as the home lives of families and breadwinners for numerous generations. Certain expectations were put in place at what seems to be the dawn of time.

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Mental health institutionalization in America from colonial times to deinstitutionalization

For most of U.S. history up to the time of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the mentally ill were generally warehoused in state and local mental institutions on a long-term basis. Most had been involuntarily committed by orders from courts or physicians, and the discharge rate was very low.

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Authoritarian parenting in Cambodian and American cultural contexts

Lynn's parenting of her son takes an authoritarian approach to child-rearing. In her culture, parental authority is rarely questioned.

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Applying Kubler-Ross theory of grief to personal loss experience

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross posits a theory that the process of loss and grief can be measured in seven distinct steps - shock, denial, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance, and hope.

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