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Moby Dick as sociological commentary on nineteenth-century seafaring life

Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick has been read in countries and language from all over the world. It has been picked apart and analyzed from a plethora of analytical theories and contexts.

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Learner analysis and its importance in teaching

When presented with a teaching situation, one of the major challenges teachers must deal with is the various and often divergent sets of needs inherent in each student.

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Group therapy stages: initial, transition, and working phases

Group therapy has become a popular method for treating a wide range of addictions, disorders, and grief processes. As Corey and Corey (1997) state: "Groups provide a natural laboratory that demonstrates to people that they are not alone and that there is hope for creating a different life" (p.

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Russian banking system development and organizational culture

Anderson, RW & Chantal K. 1998, Transition banking: financial development of central and eastern Europe, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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Role-based aggression in Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

Studies of human aggression tend toward myriad and often competing conclusions about that which drives us to behave ethically or unethically, about the forces that incline us toward altruism as opposed to those which incline us toward aggression, about the impulses to behave according to internal…

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Weber's three types of authority in modern society

Linguistically, the English word "authority" is derived from the Latin auctoritas, which means advice, opinion, influence, or command.

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Transactional analysis application in school behavior management

Educational Transactional Analysis is the area for this case study example where the client is a school that is experiencing a rise in unruly delinquent behaviors.

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Political affiliation's impact on support for millionaire surtax

Purpose Statement: To determine whether or not one's political affiliation has an impact on their views regarding public policy.

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Human-computer interaction design and Web 3.0 technology

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study, planning and design of the way human beings and modern computing devices interact. It is a renaissance discipline, newer and more necessary now that a significant portion of the population use a computer on a regular basis.

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Record keeping and cultural preservation before the printing press

Record keeping is an integral part of human civilization as it offers a way to physically store information for later use and through the years the art has advanced with technology.

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