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Neoliberal economic models and human risk aversion in financialization

Financialization is a term that describes an economic system or process that attempts to reduce all value that is exchanged (whether tangible, intangible, future or present promises, etc.) either into a financial instrument or a derivative of a financial instrument.

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Reality television viewing habits and perceived effects on audiences

Thank you for your time and your participation in the study. The data you provide is invaluable. List the media forms you consume the most such as the Internet, television, DVDs, etc.

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Defining serial killers: characteristics, motivations, and legal distinctions

Serial killers are not common, but they are fascinating because of the need to understand the phenomenon. There is no one definition of a serial killer, but there are some defining characteristics that set them apart from other murderers.

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Drucker's theory of effort allocation: building strengths over remedying weaknesses

Identification and Improvement of Strengths from High Performance to Excellence for Life Skills The analysis of the quote by speaker and author Peter Drucker, "One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence.

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Tracy Bowen's study of artists balancing manual and digital image production

Tracy Bowen set out in 2003 to ask six artists how they were "exchanging and integrating manual and digital procedures as a way of producing images" (Bowen, 2003, p. 220) and their comfort levels with the evolving, then still somewhat new, digital platforms like Photoshop or Paint.

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Children's drawing ability as a measure of cognitive development

There is scarcely a refrigerator door in America in homes with children that does not have one or more pictures attached to it with magnets providing proof positive that these young learners are expressing themselves in healthy ways.

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Repressed sexuality and violence in Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns

Almost since his debut in 1939, the character of Batman has alternately been condemned and celebrated as an image of male homosexuality, and the various subsequent iterations of the character have frequently alluded to this characterization, whether implicitly or explicitly.

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Profanity on television and the decline of broadcast regulation

In his New York Times article entitled "More than Ever, You Can Say that on Television" (November 13, 2009), author Edward Wyatt considers the issue of vulgar language in modern media entertainment, in television in particular.

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Great Depression literature: Steinbeck, Hurston, and Wright

When one considers how the Great Depression affected American Literature, John Steinbeck tends to stick out, if only because his fiction generally discusses the same themes and anxieties that has come to define the Great Depression in the public consciousness.

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Information technology's impact on American police organizations and methods

As one would expect, the police are aggressive, noticeable and thespian. It is easy for them to happen to be the objects and representatives of order, jeopardy, and inscrutability.

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