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E.P. Thompson's critique of Wordsworth and Coleridge's political disenchantment

Thompson "Disenchantment or Default?: A Lay Sermon," The Romantics. In the article "Disenchantment or Default?: A Lay Sermon," author E.P. Thompson explores the restoration of literary works by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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Paul De Man's theory of language, literature, and epistemology

Despite the fact that De man was not a trained philosopher his post war theoretical work is majorly concerned with the nature of the subject and the language in addition to the role played by language and subject in the larger epistemological question of how and what one can claim to know.

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Federal retirees returning to work and workforce incentives

Ballenstedt's work confronts an issue of growing prominence in 21st century America: employment. Her writing does more than address the issues of employment in of itself, but includes discussion of retirement or the end of employment, and yet another issue of returning to work after retirement.

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Gender stereotypes in "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon"

In the classic films of the 1940s and 1950s, filmmakers tended to use very strict representations of gender in their characters. Women could be either virgins or tramps and men could be either heroes or villains. There was very little transgression of the stereotypical boundaries of character.

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The Crucible's exploration of social conformity, sexual repression, and religious rigidity

Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller with layers of meaning and subtext. Miller's mission was to draw a direct analogy between the social and political themes of the 20th century with those of pre-Revolutionary America.

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Violent video games do not promote aggressive behavior in youth

This hypothesis has been derived from the research that is available that disputes the claims of increased aggressiveness and violent tendencies from those who play violent video games.

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Sleep disorders and academic performance in college students

There are a number of reasons that college students experience sleep disorders. A common problem is sleep deprivation and resulting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Both biological and social factors can be at the root of the problem, the consequences of which may be serious.

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Constructivism and constructive psychotherapy: theoretical foundations and clinical application

Constructivism is a theoretical perspective that asserts that people attempt to make sense of the world by developing their own set of personal individualized constructs. Personal experience, interpretation, social context, and linguistic factors define a person's subjective reality.

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Developing survey instruments for measuring male body image concerns

The need for gender-specific survey instruments and measures of body image is clear, given that the same instruments and methods used to measure female body image likely do not apply to male subjects.

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Boroditsky's empirical evidence for linguistic relativity theory

Begley, S. (2009). What's in a word? Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Retrieved online: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/07/08/what-s-in-a-word.html

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