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Religion's historical and contemporary use as a tool of social control

Religion is a highly complex concept and the debates on religious matters are far from being exhaustive. To most of us, religion is a refuge, the hope for a better life or the payer for a second chance.

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Gender differences in coronary heart disease incidence and mortality

Heart disease continues to represent a national health issue, with more men experiencing heart attacks at earlier ages than their female counterparts (Thom, Kannel, Silbershatz and D'Agostino 3). Women, though, continue to be at higher risk for some types of heart disease-related illnesses.

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Matt Hills' analysis of "good" and "bad" fandom communities

Fandom was born when the first two people started talking about their favourite program and it rolled like an avalanche into our times when fandom took unimaginable proportions for those first people who used to bring it up as a means of interacting.

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Five major motivation theories and their workplace applications

The motivation of employees in the workplace was the focus of many researchers following the publication of the Hawthorne study result. Several theories appeared as a result of the increased interest in employee motivation.

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American companies adapting advertising strategies for European markets

European advertisers have a lot to learn from Americans. Many of initial concepts of advertising up to the present day have originated in America. But Europeans are not Americans, and they have different social and cultural needs, expectations and triggers than Americans.

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Friendship and love as forms of close relationships

The terms friendship and love refers to forms of relationships. These types of relationships are often termed close or intimate relationships. Close or intimate relationships can be defined as those relationships that are interdependent, long lasting and intense in their nature.

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Cinema Paradiso and Italian neorealist cinema's influence

The film Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) is clearly a paean to the motion picture as an art form, a shared social reality, an entertainment, and a means of personal expression.

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McGrath's three approaches to natural theology and cosmogonic myth

What exactly are the three approaches to natural theology? According to McGrath, Natural Theology does in fact have three very specific and unique approaches, which are identified and explained as follows:

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Gender differences in stigma surrounding depression

The purpose of this study is an exploration of whether stigma exist surrounding depression, and whether females are more likely to be stigmatized or categorized as having depression than males are of the same peer group.

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Informed consent and participant protection in design research ethics

Ethics has been regarded as fundamental practice with reference to the all design research procedures, and it the responsibility of the research to ensure that the contents and the scope of the research is ethical and moral, the design research shall be conducted 'within an ethic of respect for…

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