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Stereotypes about children raised by gay parents and their validity

Gay parents often face very specific and very strong opposition. Stereotypes abound about the end result of gay parenting, stereotypes including an assertion that gay parents will automatically raise a gay child, or that, without both a father and a mother, a child raised by a gay couple will not…

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Pan's Labyrinth: analyzing reality, fantasy, and fascism through film

Detenber, Benjamin H., Robert F. Simons, and Gary G. Bennett. "Roll 'Em!: The Effects of Picture Motion on Emotional Responses." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 42.1 (1998): 113+. Questia. 18 Mar. 2008

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Operations management strategy and competitive priorities in modern business

Operations management must be regarded from two perspectives: the first perspective refers to operations management's contribution to the company's overall activity, and the second perspective refers to the daily activities that are ruled by operations management.

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Stress management strategies in nursing practice

According to many physicians, stress is the most common source of illness in modern society (Posen 1995), consisting of both external and internal causes.

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Praise of intelligence versus effort and effects on children's resilience

The authors proposed that praising intelligence as against efforts had detrimental effects on children and led to lesser resilience in the face of setbacks.

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Critical thinking skills in No Child Left Behind education

Students in a "No Child Left Behind" educational atmosphere tend to do more memorization and spend more time learning about reading and math than on other subjects, finding that experience and instruction in critical and creative thinking is lacking.

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Computer-assisted collaborative strategic reading for learning-disabled students

Improving the Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students with Disabilities through Computer-Assisted Collaborative Reading

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The earned income tax credit and disability assistance in Kansas

Running contrary to Darwin's law of survival of the fittest is the need in some human beings to help others in need. The fittest helping the less fit, so to speak.

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Loss of smell as a biological indicator of depression

In this article, the researches pose the idea that the loss of one's sense of smell, especially in women, may also go hand in hand with depression. While at first this may seem an unlikely paring of criteria, they go onto explore the possibility that depression has basically biological roots.

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Peer rejection of children with AIDS in school settings

Like most tragedies of modern society, AIDS have by far the worst effect on the most vulnerable in society: the children. Children are not only orphaned in their millions as a result of this disease, they are often also left with its legacy in their own broken immune systems.

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