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Rhetorical strategies in Laheij's healthcare-associated infections article

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Functional attitude theory and persuasion mechanisms

Functional attitude theories hold the central notion that people have attitudes for different reasons. By understanding the different reasons that one has for an attitude and targeting these reasons can be the basis for being able to change an attitude. The basic attitude functions are:

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O'Malley and Hall's frameworks for advertising persuasion

O'Malley gives four frameworks, which advertising appeal can be designed. They include persuasion oriented, sales oriented, salience oriented, and involvement oriented similar to Halls framework.

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Maternal autonomy and elective Caesarian section: a moral analysis

I think, in the hypothetical situation described, it is morally permissible for Wendy to obtain a Caesarian section by choice.

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How Greek mythology domesticated the divine feminine from Hesiod to Homer

Hesiod's Theogony tells of many goddesses who were wily, powerful and ruled many significant aspects of life. However, the Homeric Hymns to Demeter and Apollo show how limited and domesticated goddesses had become.

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Evaluation of allaboutexplorers.com as an educational website

Websites are an effective medium of promotion and providing necessary information. It can be used for the purpose of disseminating knowledge and can also achieve a purpose of publicity.

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Analysis and examination of New Jersey's 2013 state budget

The state of New Jersey's 2013 budget, when analyzed in certain ways, creates many different reactions and relationships. The document itself is composed of many documents of smaller scope and lesser importance.

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Psychopathology and DSM-IV diagnosis of Alex in "A Clockwork Orange"

Psychopathology symptoms have been analyzed through various movies but the movie "A Clockwork Orange" has raised several deep philosophical questions that are still unanswered. This movie reflected the dilemma that an increase in moral leads to a decrease in freedom.

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Thomas Nagel's critique of Kant on moral luck and responsibility

Moral Luck" by admitting defeat: he informs the reader that he will be assessing "a fundamental problem about moral responsibility to which we possess no satisfactory solution" (450). The problem is essentially one about ethical judgment, and he begins it with an illustration from Kant.

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Food advertising's effects on youth and defensive strategies

Cognitive Development may appear to be a unified discipline or organic cooperation among several disciplines; however, the research shows chasms between fields devoted to the study of human development.

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