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Cross-cultural communication failures at Dewey Ballantine LLP

The final years of the twentieth century have seen the wakening of globalization, a practice by which territorial boundaries are lifted and the free circulation of merchandise, capitals, people and even cultural, technological or political values is strongly encouraged.

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Picture books and language development in preschool children

Preschool children are full of wonder and amazement of the world around them. They enjoy life in a way no adult can after developing so far from that early state of mind.

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Hypnopaedia and sleep learning: can audio instruction facilitate language acquisition

Hypnopaedia: Can We Sleep and Learn? The concept of learning during sleep is an old one, yet with little solid proof and testing to back it up.

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Female serial killers: Belle Gunness, Nannie Doss, and Aileen Wournos

For many years, people assumed that serial killers were male. This assumption was partially accurate, as the killers who preyed upon random strangers were generally male.

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Defining child sexual abuse and incest: legal and conceptual gaps

Child sexual abuse is an extremely common phenomenon in the United States and unlike what most people believe, 80% children are sexually abused by a family member while 19% children are abused by those they trust and are comfortable hanging out with and only 1% children are abused by a stranger.

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Arguments for lowering the legal drinking age to 18

Health professionals, educators and public officials have argued that underage drinking is a serious sociological concern and a major public health crisis in the United States.

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Family processes, self-control, and criminal behavior in two cases

the major cause of delinquency and crime over the life course is low self-control and the major cause of low self-control is family processes of informal social control… at no point in the life course should informal social control have a direct effect on delinquency

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Ethical management and recruitment practices at NatHealth Nutrition Inc.

NatHealth Nutrition Inc. is a commercial organization that provides comprehensive food services to businesses and other organizations.

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Freeman's theory of time perception, intention, and causation in human action

Perception of time and causation through the kinesthesia of intentional action" by Walter J. Freeman III (2008) addresses issues of time perception and relates these to causation and intention in human action.

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Children's identification with aggressive media characters and violent video games

This statement pretty much shows us how children, in this case a seven-year-old, copes or reduces his own fear by pretending he is Freddy Krueger. The child concludes that through this mechanism, he successfully overcomes the feeling of being scared.

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