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Spontaneous remission and natural recovery from addiction

Spontaneous remission from addiction is often referred to under different titles. These include, natural recovery, maturing out, and unassisted change.

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Photography and the construction of Western national identity in early America

In her work Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Margaret Edwards outlines the most cogent and problematic issue surrounding the use of photography as a means of understanding cultural and social phenomena

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Cultural influences on Chicana women's sexuality and self-worth

The purpose of this project will be an examination of how culture affects women of Chicana descent and how one's cultural upbringing impacts sexuality and sense of self-worth. Chicana women face unique hardships when it comes to recognizing their sense of self-worth and their sexuality.

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Dr. Cicely Saunders' influence on early palliative care development in Massachusetts

The interest in palliative care, or counseling for bereavement comes to different people in different ways, and one doctor came into it through home care as long ago as 1975. The doctor had just finished working as a house staff in the University of California in San Francisco.

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Weight training and strength training for athletic conditioning

Whether to win marathons or to make it to the state football championships, all athletes need some form of training. Lately, increased focus has been placed on the specific importance of weight, or strength, training for the overall conditioning of a casual or professional athlete.

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Neil Postman's critique of television and American culture

Neil Postman was a special type of a man and considered that he was not an expert on anything, and yet he was ready to express his opinion on every subject under the sun. The person's mind was continuously working at jokes, headlines and different ideas. This infected an individual when he met Mr.

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Electronics and assistive technology for disabled individuals

The emergence of technology brought a lot of changes in how man performs his daily activities, may it be for his personal needs or for his professional responsibilities. How technology continuously provides interface to a faster accomplishment of man's needs is important to the awareness of mankind.

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The transatlantic slave trade: European expansion and African labor exploitation

Slavery has existed since the beginning history, and references can be found throughout the Old Testament and other ancient writings from around the globe.

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The legal and ethical debate surrounding euthanasia in America

The foremost contentious concern lately has been the issue of granting legal status to the right to die with dignity, or euthanasia. Similar to the issue of death sentence or suicide, euthanasia is contentious as it entails killing an individual through a conscious decision.

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Cultural attitudes toward work and professional identity

The search for implication at work is a lesson that attracts the concentration of an increasing number of writers. It is a recognizable search acknowledged by most people those are engaged, whatever may be their profession.

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