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Psychometric properties and clinical applications of the Beck Depression Inventory-II

Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is a 21-item clinician administered and scored scale that is designed to measure a person's mood and symptoms related to depression.

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Word order and noun class agreement in Zulu grammar

Before delving into the intricacies of Zulu grammar, it is critical that a general understanding of the language, its structure and its historical and geographical distribution be provided.

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Leicester's development from Roman fort to Medieval city

Leicester provides an excellent example of fort-settlement-town-city development through the Medieval Ages.

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Islamic alternatives to Western modernity and globalization

How do you see Islam offering an alternative to modernity as defined by the West? Is this alternative oppositional to or complementary with the West or both? Why or why not? Focus on specific examples.

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Pilgrimage as a quest for self-fulfillment in Indian religions

Humans are born with an incredible amount of mental capacity to learn and grow, yet we are not born with a pre-determined set of rules guiding our thoughts.

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Sir Gawain and the contradictions of the chivalric code

The chivalric code is a paradigm that is both poorly understood and was even more poorly applied, not because the code was not clearly written down and able to be transferred among the people who it applied to but because of its very confusing historical development and even more confusing…

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The Cuban Five: examining the terrorism debate and trial fairness

The Implications of This Trial on the Relations between Cuba and the U.S.A. Whether the Cuban Five are terrorists or not has to be seen from an international perspective that is impartial and takes into consideration the viewpoints of the Cubans as well as the Americans.

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The historical roots of Dutch tolerance and liberal political culture

Dutch Culture "Typical Dutch?" The history of the Netherlands is demonstrative of a unique situation both socially and politically as the level of Dutch tolerance has been duly noted on countless issues.

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John Stuart Mill's libertarianism and the constraints of the U.S. Constitution

None of the issues being raised today by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement are new, but rather they date back to the very beginning of the United States.

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National cultural institutions and the production of Canberra as national capital space

National capital cities, also referred to as the national cultural institutions (NCIs), are omnipresent social and spatial phenomena which have surfaced and sustained across the years simultaneously with the concept and the emergence of the nation-state (Therborn 2002).

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