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Ted Gup's "The Secret Gift": Depression-era philanthropy and human dignity

In 1933, the town of Canton, Ohio had plunged into abject poverty. Its residents were suffering a kind of privation that makes the recent recession look mild. Children did not know the meaning of breakfast. People patched their shoes with old tires.

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Legal right to assisted suicide and medical dignity

Assisted suicide should be a legal right. The grounds for this claim include the fact that modern medicine has made it possible to extend life artificially, allowing for people to survive beyond their body's capacity for wellness.

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Community-oriented policing and street-level drug trafficking in New York

The high rates of individuals who are arrested, on probation, incarcerated, or on parole throughout our nation have led some critical criminologists to advocate for the decriminalization of so-called victimless crimes.

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Case formulation for Salomon: a clinical assessment and care plan

Salomon has clearly evidenced educational and emotional problems at least since the 6th grade; however, this 9th grader has apparently neither been thoroughly physically and psychiatrically evaluated, nor received an Individual Education Plan, evincing a stunning level of neglect by his educators,…

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Canadian public policy on ADHD inclusion in special education

It has been estimated that almost five percent of School aged children out of population of 2.1 Million in Ontario are suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

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Major depressive disorder in a case study of Tina

There is a considerable of variation in the occurrence of MDD among U.S. youth as reported by research studies on depression in adolescents. Fleming and Offord (1990) conducted a critical review and found that currently the occurrence depression ranges from .4-5.7%, with a mean occurrence of 3.6%.

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Aristotle's three levels of happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics

In Book X of the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle offers several definitions of happiness (eudaimonia) which can exist at the level of physical pleasure, a life of civil involvement and practicing virtue, or the ultimate form of happiness which is the contemplation of God and spiritual and eternal…

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Lifelong learning and ecological thinking as complementary educational paradigms

It seeks to examine the coalescing of what is called lifelong learning side-by-side with the theories and practices related to the evolution of ecological thinking and environmental awareness.

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Self-esteem vulnerability in early school-aged children and identity development

Explain why children in the early-school-aged period may be especially vulnerable to fluctuations in self-esteem and feelings of "worthlessness."

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Persuading donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Attention Getter: Every Labor Day, the Jerry Lewis telethon is broadcast on television and people are asked to help Jerry's kids. For more than 60 years, MDA has helped children and adults all over the world who are struggling with muscular dystrophy and related diseases.

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