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School bullying as a predictor of antisocial behavior in adulthood

Antisocial personality disorder is a chronic mental illness characterized by abnormal and destructive ways of thinking and perceiving situations.

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Gender and sexuality in Aristophanes' Lysistrata

Aristophanes' Lysistrata is one of the eleven plays penned by the playwright that has survived over time. The original performance of this production occurred in classical Athens reportedly in 411 BC

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Understanding stress responses across life stages

Stress is an unavoidable fact of life, yet, what precisely is stress? It is essentially one of those things that we all have but that we all have difficulty defining and explaining. The one unarguable fact is that we all have it in our lives and, without it, our lives would be much different.

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Constraints on sociocognitive metaphors in social perception

What prompts people to describe aspects of their interpersonal relationships with terms such as "warm" and "close" and others as "cold" and "distant"?

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Joe Paterno's leadership failures and the Penn State sexual abuse scandal

Penn State / Joe Paterno controversy was the mythical atmosphere of the team and the fact that Paterno's personal agenda and weaknesses transcended the objective FO the team. He saw himself as a cult figure, structured the team around that, and this led to the team's collapse.

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Combating sexual harassment of women in California schools

Californian Hometown." Sexual harassment is unwelcome behavior directed at the opposite sex that is deliberate or repeated, not asked for or returned and which affects the terms and conditions of employment (Sexual Harassment Policy, p. 2).

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Community policing as a valuable development in criminal justice

Traditionally, law enforcement has taken a somewhat narrow approach to public safety. It seeks to detect crimes and arrest perpetrators, taking these elements themselves to constitute the "threats" to public safety.

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Telecommuting as a growth platform for Waggoner-Edstrom's Asian expansion

Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Creating and Sustaining a Telecommuting Program at Waggoner-Edstrom The most quantifiable benefits of telecommuting, where companies create virtual workforces and remote project teams, include lower operating costs and higher team-based performance (Cohen,…

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Leibniz and Spinoza's approaches to mind-body dualism

The Mind-Body problem is one that plagues philosophers, asking what the relationship is between the mind and the body? Human beings seem to exhibit distinct physical and mental properties.

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The protective role of dakini in Buddhist spiritual practice

In order to properly discuss the nature of the dakini, which is largely protected and may be manifest the most eminently in the representation of Simhavakatra, and its different poses and styles, it becomes necessary to first outline the historical and spiritual significance of this particular…

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