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Materialism and moral corruption in contemporary consumer society

Karl Marx (1844), imagines of a society where relationships are valuable than money and goods, claiming that this would be a supeiror society. The world today has been preoccupied with acquisition of wealth leading to growth of a materialistic generation.

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Emotion regulation strategies and their relationships to depression, anxiety, and eating disorders

Aldao, Nolen-Hoeksema, and Schweize (2010) define emotional regulation as the process, unconscious or conscious, through which individuals modulate their emotions. Models of psychopathology and treatment have incorporated emotional regulation (ER) into their paradigms.

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The role of administrators and staff in Florida curriculum design

What role do administrators and staff developers play in the curriculum design or revision process? The governor of the state appoints members to the Florida State Board of Education. Some educational commissioners are elected locally by the public during general elections.

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Unlicensed caregiver stress and dementia care training in assisted living facilities

Nearly 5.4 million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia (Chodosh et al., 2012, p. 85).

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The constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate

There have always been heated debates about the amount of interference government should have in our lives.

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Language, deception, and the role of logical fallacies in argument

Tools, such as hammers, have no inherent intent to deceive or malign. Only in the hands of its users do morals come into play. Lying is relative and in some instances the best of choices.

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Language, identity, and power in Anzaldúa's Borderlands

Language defines identity, and creates boundaries between self and other. In Borderlands: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua refers to the "broken" and "forked" tongues that represented the boundaries and intersections of social, cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender identities.

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Language, identity, and resistance in Chicano and Puerto Rican literature

As Gloria Anzaldua states in "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, "Chicano Spanish sprang out of Chicanos' need to identify ourselves as a distinct people," (447). Chicano Spanish is a "secret language" of cultural bonding and binding.

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Improving geographic and cultural awareness through the Where in the World program

Research shows that American students need greater geographic awareness. The lack of concern for, or appreciation of, other cultures is also deplorably low among American students.

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Wangari Maathai's use of colonial institutions to challenge colonial legacies

Colonization has left a lingering legacy on all affected nations. In Unbowed, Wangari Maathai Muta describes the direct and indirect impact of colonization, via her life experiences in colonial and post-colonial Kenya.

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