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Evolution of male masculinity in television advertising

The characters of males in advertising has changed over time. In the earlier days of print and television advertising, as well as on the radio, males were the alpha and usually domineering over the subdued and submissive housewife.

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Gender differences in explicit reading instruction and comprehension

All three articles are scholarly because they were written by professional educators, mostly professors at the university level, who carried out statistical studies of the reading abilities of students.

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Violence and Victims journal: peer-reviewed research on interpersonal violence

Violence and Victims is a social work journal that informs "clinical decisions, legal actions and public policy" (Springer Publishing, 2011).

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Capacity development in infancy through parental interaction

Individual capacities are generalized abilities or skills necessary to achieve desired outcomes.

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Jean Watson and John Paley's contrasting nursing care theories

Two of the major theories of nursing have been published by Jean Watson and by John Paley, who each have taken markedly distinct approaches to conceptualizing nursing care in a theoretical construct.

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Social learning theory and juvenile sexual offender behavior and treatment

This research paper encompasses and discusses the juvenile sexual offenders and their ill-fated victims. The first part explains how the misfortunate occurrence of sexual molestation affects the overall behavior of the child victim.

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Reductionism and emergence in cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field encompassing various aspects of the study of the mind, including perception, reasoning, language, emotion and consciousness.

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Philosophical analysis of Witkacy's "The shoemakers"

Stanis-aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, also known in the dramatic circle as Witkacky was born in the year 1885, his father being Stanislaw Witkiewicz.

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Social roles and identity in the Stanford Prison Experiment

The roles we take on in our everyday lives are dictated by several factors. Whether it's the role of mother, son, student, cashier, accountant, boyfriend, wife, or teacher, the roles that make up our identities are varied and we slip into and out of them without any conscious thought.

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Assessing the effectiveness of adult prisoner reentry programs

There has been a large amount of funding filtered into prison recidivism and reentry programs for adults because these programs claim to have the answer to addressing the recidivism rates of adult individuals who are in reentry programs leaving prison.

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