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The diagnostic and statistical manual's role in mental disorder classification

American Psychiatric Association released the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DMS-IV). The manual has been referred by the mental health professionals and physicians to verify and ascertain the causes of the mental disorders.

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Ethical dilemmas in bottled water pricing and midnight shift operations

Bottled water costs about 10,000 times more than tap water. In addition, in the U.S. alone over 2,000,000 PET plastic bottles are used every 5 minutes. What ethical issues must the Waterkeeper Alliance bear in mind when considering whether or not to discontinue its brand of bottled water?

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Instant messaging's impact on interpersonal relationships among college students

The popular growth of Instant messaging technology on the Internet has become a fact of life. The ease of use and the immediacy that instant messaging offers has resulted in it's almost wholesale adoption for communication, particularly among adolescents and the 18 to 25 age group.

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Economic impacts of terrorism on global trade and investment

When a terrorism attack hits a country, such as September 11, 2001, naturally the citizens of that nation are most affected.

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Abu Hamza al-Masri's influence on Islamic extremism among British Muslims

How Did a Minority of the Current Generation of British Muslims, Mainly Children and Grandchildren of Muslim Asian Immigrants to Britain After World War 2, Turn to Islamic Extremism, and How Much Influence Did the Preachings of the Fundamentalist Cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri and His Contemporaries,…

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Heidegger's authenticity versus postmodern conceptions of the self

Enlightenment thinkers assumed that all human beings could be eventually inculcated in an ideology of perfect rationality. One example of classical Enlightenment optimism is Hegel's notion that, under ideal circumstances, all human beings could know everything.

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Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and media desensitization

War, murder, terrorism, random and premeditated violence, religion and in the more modern, as one small example of the evolution, even dangerous high speed police chases have become the stuff of entertainment.

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Social movements and counterculture questioning in 1960s America

The sixties were a time of change, and more importantly of changing perceptions within American and Western culture about the meaning of social as well as personal life.

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Dogs in animal-assisted therapy: benefits and implementation

When a patient is in a hospital room full of high tech equipment with tubes, wires, bleeping monitors, alarms, and life-support equipment, it can be very depressing. An animal can bring warmth to the atmosphere and relate to the patient as a human being.

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Foreign exchange markets as investment opportunities and trading advantages

Miliaresis addresses the issue of foreign exchange (forex), and how these have become increasingly popular in trading, especially with the use of the Internet. In fact, the Internet has made trading increasingly easy for the general public.

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