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Supporting LGBT students through educational programs and policy

In today's educational environment, students who happen to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) often find it hard to cope in their learning environment. LGBT students must endure an abnormal amount of stress throughout adolescence and young adulthood.

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Dawkins' meme theory and cultural evolution in education reform

This article argues for the viewpoint that Head-Start-type early education is not only non-productive, but can actually lead to detriments to children's development as they enter formal school.

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Barriers to diabetes self-care management across racial and ethnic groups

This research study conducts an extensive review of relevant academic literature including professional nursing journals in a qualitative review in order to determine the factors that exist in relation to barriers and challenges of specific groups of patients in self-care management of diabetes…

~19 min read

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Instant messaging's impact on interpersonal relationships among college students

The popular growth of Instant messaging technology on the Internet has become a fact of life. The ease of use and the immediacy that instant messaging offers has resulted in it's almost wholesale adoption for communication, particularly among adolescents and the 18 to 25 age group.

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Chinese-Americans: immigration restrictions, labor exploitation, and cultural traditions

Origins / History: The Chinese probably were persecuted as an ethnic culture arriving in America far more than were the Irish and Polish; this is not to say the Polish and Irish avoided discrimination and social bias, but neither of the latter two were actually banned from immigrating to the U.S.

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Institutional prestige bias in research credibility perception

Develop a hypothesis and describe the variables you want to study. How would you assign the subject to the various groups, manipulate the independent variable or variables, control extraneous variables and minimize forms of bias?

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Stress hormones and workplace wellness interventions in American companies

It has been observed that the stress hormones including Cortisol and Adrenaline are developed into the blood stream of the employee, under severe stress condition.

~18 min read

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Group cohesion as a variable in small group processes and outcomes

Cohesiveness is regarded as one of the crucial elements in the growth of a group and a prominent aspect for different groups and various kinds of group processes.

~16 min read

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Should the United States reinstate mandatory military service?

Each year around the world, millions of young men reach the age of majority, kiss their families goodbye and go off to join the military. This is not because they dreamed of becoming soldier while they were growing up.

~13 min read

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Stephanie Coontz's critique of American family myths in The Way We Never Were

It was in 1989, when historian Stephanie Coontz published an intellectual and scholarly book on the American family, the Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families, 1660-1900.

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