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Causes of increased U.S. prison populations: drugs, sentencing, and racial disparities

The United States has experienced an unprecedented increase in prison populations over the last decade, a trend that began in the 1980's. In just seven years during the last decade, prison populations rose by 58% -- from 1,726.000 to 1.1 million (SW, 1998).

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Freud, Jung, and Maslow: Theories of personality development

One of the earliest theorists of personality development was Sigmund Freud. Freud defined the development of the individual's personality primarily in terms of struggle, loss, and repression -- namely the individual's family romance with the mother that was finally supplanted through a series of…

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Block and Steinbeck's economic and social arguments for drug legalization

It is not that Block and Steinbeck disagree about making drugs legal, but that they disagree about why that should be done. Block's argument is mostly economic in nature, while Steinbeck's argument is much more geared toward the reduction of overcrowding in prisons.

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Improving written communication through rhetorical strategies and audience awareness

Effective written communication is necessary in a number of different situations. In the first section of this paper, I discuss my areas of personal weakness in written communication.

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Soft power in higher education and international influence

Globalization has become a major boon for the teaching profession overall. An increased standard of living, accompanied by economic development has created a platform for which institutions of higher education can promote themselves.

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Intuition as a valuable cognitive process in professional counseling

Yet this article shows that intuition may be a valuable trait in some professions, like counseling and even education. When Jung developed his personality typologies, he did point out that other psychological traits and variables can work alongside and with intuition.

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Elitism and pluralism as competing governance theories of power distribution

Elitism and Pluralism governance theories are about the mode of power distribution. Pluralism can be defined as a form of government where the entire population of participants share equal status in rights, power or possession.

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Analysis of "Girls Just Wanna Have Phones" and "Not My Mother's 56"

Girls Just Wanna Have Phones" contains the argument that rather than our electronic devices acting as instruments to make life easier for us, we have actually become slaves to them.

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Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me and food reform movements

Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock undergoes one of the most masochistic eating experiments imaginable, eating only McDonald's food for thirty days. He tracks his mental and physical health throughout the experiment to reveal the drastic ill effects of regular fast food consumption.

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Social skill interventions for students with autism spectrum disorder

Social skill interventions are designed to help students with specific disabilities like autism understand how to learn and adapt while in a social setting like a classroom or school trip.

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