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Queen Elizabeth I's military intervention in Ireland and its costs

Upon her ascendancy to the throne of England in 1558 - having survived two months' imprisonment in the Tower of London at the hand of her half sister Mary Tudor four years earlier - Elizabeth found herself hostage to the volatile political, cultural and social unrest in Ireland.

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School postvention protocols for responding to adolescent suicide

The emotional impact on family and friends following an adolescent suicide - and the school's response to a suicide - has not been the subject of the same level of intense research as have: a) the causes of suicides; and b) programs to prevent suicides.

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Extracurricular activities and academic performance among students

Extracurricular activities are very popular with students from elementary school through college.

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Genetic and environmental factors in predicting criminal behavior

Understanding why crime occurs requires an appreciation for the complexity of human behavior. Behavior is not determined by one factor, but rather influenced by a host of interrelated factors.

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Alcohol and drug abuse as factors in domestic violence against women

Family violence - or male aggression against women in a relationship setting - also known as domestic violence (DV) is most certainly a devastating social and moral problem in our society; but it is also a serious police problem, and an expensive health problem.

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Teacher gestures and children's problem-solving skill development

Learning is a process of brain development and change that is caused by diverse factors contributing to the learning experience of humans. Such includes mechanisms like speech and gestures.

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Memory, politics, and silence in Pinochet's Chile

politics of memory, and the politicization of memory, with particular reference to Chile and the human rights violations inflicted upon the population by the Pinochet regime.

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Clinical depression: symptoms, effects, and identification

Major depressions or unipolar depressions are some of the names by which the term Clinical depression is known, which is a type of depressive disorder.

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David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and romantic alienation

From the perspective of pure plot, David Mamet's 1974 play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is not exactly easy to summarize, although this difficulty is formally built in to the play, itself, which quite consciously rejects a standard narrative flow from one event to another for a cut-up collagistic…

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Effects of voluntary in-school free reading programs on elementary students

grain of sand, hold infinity in an hour, - lines I read in a book of poetry, lines that play at the back of my mind as I begin to lay the outlines if this thesis for a Master's degree.

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