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Why women stay in violent relationships: a qualitative examination

The purpose of this study will be an investigational analysis of why women who are battered stay in violent relationships.

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Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology: bridging nature and behavior

Traditionally, researchers in various fields of study have generally limited investigations to their area of expertise. Social scientists attend to prescribed areas such as memory, deviance, and microeconomics.

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Elizabethan theater: origins, development, and Shakespeare's era

Elizabethan theatre is a general concept embodying the plays written and performed openly in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603.

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Spiritual transformation through divine perspective in George Herbert's "The Elixir"

The title of George Herbert's deceptively titled poem "The Elixir" initially suggests that the poem will have an intoxicating rather than a theological subject. But the title of the poem is actually derived from the name for the medieval science of alchemy.

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Transformations in Lewis Lapham's Hotel America

Lapham, Lewis. Hotel America. New York: Verso Press, 1996. At the beginning of his text, Hotel America, commentator and essayist Lewis Lapham speculates that the nationally articulated transformational challenge or project of American democracy to change the class hierarchy of Europe many have…

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Security issues and governance in online communities

Online communities have emerged in recent years as a result of the rapid growth of the Internet, arousing intrigue in citizens, policy-makers and government officials. An online community is a group of people who interact in a virtual environment.

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Economic theories of Marx and Keynes compared

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) are two of the most important economists of modern times.

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Population aging and fiscal pressures on American social security systems

U.S. Census Bureau projected that there would be 14.3 to 16.8 million people aged 85 or over in the year 2040 (Gavrilov and Heuveline 2003). Other projections placed the figure at 23.5 to 54 million.

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Racial prejudice and social alienation in Shakespeare's Othello

According to Shakesperean scholar Maurice Hunt, "Shakespeare's Venice" in the play "Othello" strives to activate "a disturbing paradigm dependent upon the city's multicultural reputation." (Hunt, 2003, p.1) In other words, in Shakespeare's Venice, diversity creates a disturbing and tumultous…

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Ethical codes and practices of the ACA, AAPC, and AACC

Confidentiality, Informed Consent, Competence and Responsibility to Community: The Codes of Ethics of ACA, AAPC, and AACC

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