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Funding deficiencies and nurturing defects in the U.S. foster care system

This paper aims to discuss the United States Foster Care system. It puts light on the trends of entries, exists, adoptions and placements in the U.S. foster care system.

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Open visitation in intensive care units: benefits versus patient harm

Privileges to visit the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have been a controversial topic since a long time. It is a simple issue between rules and emotions. When a loved one is fighting between life and death, all family and friends wish to visit that person.

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Epilepsy symptoms, cognitive therapy, antiepileptic drugs, and relaxation therapies

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which causes frequent seizures due to abnormal electricity activity within the brain. Epilepsy is considered a brain disorder disturbing the brain function which ultimately affects behaviour and cognition. This paper highlights some common symptoms of epilepsy.

~14 min read

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The pathway to violence: analyzing the Dawson College shooting

Dawson College shooting occurred on September 13, 2006 at Dawson College located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was reported that the shooter was Kimveer Gill and he shot a total of nineteen people. Out of a total of nineteen people, one person died whereas others were injured.

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Risk of violence and criminality among individuals with bipolar disorder

Several studies argue that most psychiatric symptoms are closely correlated with criminality, since such symptoms impair judgment and violate societal norms.

~14 min read

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Human cruelty and racial discrimination in Charles Chestnut's literary works

It is a vivid fact that the feelings of cruelty, discrimination and racial distribution are embedded well in to human nature since its very inception.

~22 min read

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CEO leadership strategies for managing organizational conflict and change

This paper references the existing scholarly literature in terms of providing ideas, strategies -- to be used as organizational tools -- that are available to the alert, competent CEO.

~17 min read

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Religion and ritual in Santeria practice among Cuban South Florida communities

The Cuban community in South Florida has evolved customs and a culture all its own. Central to those customs and cultural expressions is religion. Whether Sephardic Jew or Catholic, the Cuban in South Florida is touched by religion in all aspects of his or her life.

~16 min read

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Ideology, theories, and practice strategies in social work

There are several factors that contribute to seeming intractability and complexity of social issues. We cannot retrieve an actual picture of any problem considering a single issue. The root causes of social issues are related to individual circumstances and some are beyond the individual control.

~20 min read

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Abuse and intervention in Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called It"

Child maltreatment entails all types of neglect and abuse of a child below eighteen years by caregivers, parents or any other person (Crosson-Tower, 2006).

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