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Pediatric nurse practitioners in the care of terminally ill children

Pediatric nurse practitioners provide a valuable contribution to the care of chronically and terminally ill children. This position is essentially a subtype of advanced practice nurse, whose function is to provide the best possible patient care for ill children.

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Voter turnout decline in York's 2003 local election

Many Western democracies are dealing with the problem of low voter turnout in elections. The United Kingdom is no different in this regard. Local elections seem to be particularly hard hit by an absence of voters participating in these elections.

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Homophobia in American culture and personal experience

Even in the wake of political correctness, homophobia still haunts many people in our culture. Heterosexuality is still the dominant social expression and any intimate relationship that falls outside the accepted boundaries of heterosexual union is considered to be taboo.

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Hitler's ideology and Nazi propaganda during the Beer Hall Putsch

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to." Thus wrote Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, while serving a prison sentence in the Bavarian capital of Munich following an aborted coup that he had attempted in…

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The impossible burden: gender roles and Japan's declining birth rate

Social change is often slow. This is especially true concerning the shift of traditional gender roles in any society. Historically, however, once these roles do begin to change, women in specific seem to bear the brunt of the stress that these changes necessarily cause.

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Human sexual behavior classification and deviant sexual activities

The efforts in the form of behavior modification with a view to solve the problems in sexual interactions are known as sex therapy. Sex problems most common in the present environment affect the couples in their sex lives and adversely reflected in their sexual behavior.

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The history and definition of complex regional pain syndrome

The history and the discovery of RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) Syndrome and its symptoms have typically been associated with wars. While there is no doubt that RSD from physical stress and injury existed earlier, it was left up to war physicians to assign pathology to it.

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Brain circuits and prefrontal cortex dysfunction in violent behavior

As a clinician, how can you apply the knowledge you gained from this course to more effectively serve your clients? A connection has been established by researchers between brutal and violent susceptibility to impair a particular area of the brain.

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Adolescent development and family dysfunction in contemporary film

Home life, family dynamics, and Tracy's relationship with her mom, dad, brother, her mom's boyfriend. "How many times are you going to let him fuck you over," Tracy yells at her mom after finding her mom's boyfriend's clothes in the dryer.

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Daniel Boorstin's concept of pseudo-events in modern media

In the scientific literature it is difficult to find a useful concept for the news craze. In Media Matters (1994) John Fiske uses the word 'media event'. These kinds of events have their own reality and their own patterns.

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