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Loss of smell as a biological indicator of depression

In this article, the researches pose the idea that the loss of one's sense of smell, especially in women, may also go hand in hand with depression. While at first this may seem an unlikely paring of criteria, they go onto explore the possibility that depression has basically biological roots.

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs and implications for mathematics education

Abraham Maslow is most well-known for what has become known by most as, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow theorized that people must achieve certain needs before being able to fully experience needs of a higher order.

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Peer rejection of children with AIDS in school settings

Like most tragedies of modern society, AIDS have by far the worst effect on the most vulnerable in society: the children. Children are not only orphaned in their millions as a result of this disease, they are often also left with its legacy in their own broken immune systems.

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Gender socialization and public policy intervention in twentieth-century childcare

gender, sex, and gender socialization in the western world in the twentieth century and how public intervention may produce effective policies and practices with a focus on childcare

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Leonardo da Vinci's symbolic use of rocky landscapes in Mona Lisa

While searching through articles for this topic, one small article entitled, How She got Her Smile, by Amelia Gentleman, became the unintended focus of this paper.

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Modernism and impressionism in Ford's "The Good Soldier"

Modernism stresses the need for freedom of expression, experimentation, radicalism and primitivism. It rejects the old traditions and modernizes the thinking.

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Gender differences in managerial styles and organizational change management

Management was considered a traditionally men's realm in the past. Clearly defined social roles and the "glass ceiling" dictated that women could not be CEOs or top managers.

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Darwin's theory of human evolution and natural selection

Since their earliest history, humans have been intrigued with their origins. Prehistoric cultures developed creation myths that tell of a separate creation of man and of the domination of man over the rest of the animal world.

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Sociological development of Asher Lev in Potok's novel

Just as one can develop a sociological analysis of the development of a person in the environment in which he or she was raised and make certain judgments about what influenced that development and how, so can one do the same thing with a fictional character, assuming the author has provide…

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Paternal abandonment and adult female obesity: a causal relationship

This work will explore the obesity epidemic, first through a comprehensive analysis of its development, as well as through a literature review pertaining to obesity and its controversial causes.

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