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Abortion access and women's rights to choose

While legal aspect of abortion has been the subject of extensive debate during the last 35 years, abortion itself has been around for thousands of years. The religious and social moral codes have played a major role in both preventing and encouraging abortion.

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Social networking quality, rumination, and depressive symptoms in young adults

Frequency and quality of social networking among young adults: Associations with depressive symptoms, rumination, and corumination, (Davila et al., 2012), two studies were done in order to examine the associations between social networking and depressive symptoms among youth.

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The five-factor model of personality traits and behavior

There are several theories that surround the human personality, the way that humans react, learn, and interact with the world.

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The theory of consumer choice and scarcity in economic decision-making

Economics is about scarcity. The word 'scarcity' is used here in a special sense: it refers to a state of affairs in which, given the wants of a society at any particular moment, the means available to satisfy them are not sufficient.

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Internal representations and psychological development in object relations theory

What exactly is 'Object Relations Theory'? What does it deal with? What is it about?

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Familial and environmental influences on African-American job market prospects and work life quality

Previous studies suggest that African-Americans spend much of their time engaged at work and that the quality of work life reported among African-Americans at best has been described as plagued by inequality and lack of opportunity or stability (Riley, 2005; Tuch & Martin, 1991; Wilson, 1996).

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Spatial memory and social behavior in Heliconius butterflies

Many consider the Heliconius butterfly among the more intelligent butterfly species. This is a result of multiple factors including their reproductive tendencies, spatial analysis capability and eating preferences.

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Ethical dilemmas in school counseling practice and training

Ethics has been very much on the public mind for the past few years, beginning with stunning revelations of corporate ethical lapses, some of them consuming pensions (Enron), and others consuming lives (Bhopal, India).

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Comparing the Macheteros and Tupamaros as domestic terrorist organizations

Daily associations between the word terrorism and the frightening images of gore and destruction rampant on the 24-hour news networks affirm the complicated understanding of terrorism in the modern world; bombings on an Israeli bus, explosions outside a Pakistani supermarket, and subway atrocities…

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God's sovereignty and historical accuracy in Genesis 1-11

Genesis of the Bible is the sovereignty of God throughout the four events described in the first 11 chapters: the creation, the fall, the flood and the Babel dispersion.

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