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Universal archetypes in folktales across cultures and nations

Children grow up with bedtime stories their parents or older siblings told them. As they grow up and expand their literary universe, they find out that the stories they thought were created by the national folklore of their country are actually using common themes with those from numerous other…

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Parental involvement and academic outcomes at ABC Middle School

Does lack of parental involvement affect 6th graders at ABC Middle School in discipline and academics? Faced with poor test scores, community dissatisfaction, a lack of student enthusiasm and almost nonexistent parent participation, ABC Middle School must find answers and find them fast.

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Operant conditioning and behavior shaping in children

Although they may not realize it, parents regularly make use of operant conditioning when disciplining young children in the grocery store.

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Hospitality and reciprocity in Homer's Odyssey

The importance of the laws of hospitality in the ancient world differed a great deal of what today's reader might understand when considering the concept. The Homeric writings were estimated to have been created at around eight hundred BC.

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Group cohesion and maintenance roles in families

The study of group dynamics reveals the tremendous importance of individual social roles of group members.

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Traditional values and same-sex marriage rights debate

The contemporaneous society strives to be modern in all senses of the word. We develop and use the latest technologies to improve the quality of life; we expand our horizons beyond territorial and spatial boundaries and we strive to explain all forces of life through scientific models.

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Ayn Rand's early life and philosophical development under communism

Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. A self-taught reader, she aspired to become a fiction writer at a very early age and always modeled herself after European writers like Victor Hugo rather than Russian writers

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Behavioral theory and personality development in organizational settings

There are a number of theories which have attempted to explain human behavior and its impact on social as well as work life. These theories have tried to explain how human behavior shapes a person's personality. One of the important theories is the Behavioral Theory or Behaviorism.

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Wikipedia's Milgram experiment article as a research tool

Milgram Experiment" information located at Wikipedia.org, and whether Wikipedia has a place in student research. Wikipedia is often under utilized as a research tool, especially in academia, because anyone and everyone edit it, and the academic world does not consider it a valid reference tool.

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Gender stereotypes in Japanese commercials and magazines

Japan has been a traditional society for ages and even though there has been some dramatic social changes in the paste few decades, traditional roles still dominate society's thinking.

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