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The link between pesticides and childhood obesity

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence has more than tripled in the last thirty years.

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Knowledge-sharing networks and organizational communication technologies

Trust and transparency have emerged as more critical than ever for organizational and personal communication to flourish. This is paradoxical given the hype and heavy promotion of social networks today, as their success is predicated on trust being earned.

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Case study methodology for understanding PTSD through individual narratives

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is highly based on individualized experiences and how the subject continues to hold on to negative experiences throughout their lives as a source of anxiety.

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Jazz innovation and African-American social change through musical evolution

Within every genre of music, there are innovators who continue to push the edge of that genre. Classical music had innovations in every generation, from Bach, Haydn and Beethoven to Stravinsky, Bernstein, and Shostakovich.

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Humanism and Renaissance music: transformation through equal voices and church modes

Throughout the history of music there are those ideas that have the ability to unite the classic forms of composition with modern day thinking. As these two elements have often been utilized to create a new genre that changes the way everyone thinks and feels about the sounds they are hearing.

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Threatening language escalation and its progression toward violent action

Our extensive literature review shows that threatening language, unless proven to cause harm to someone, is protected by first amendment under freedom of speech clause. However once threatening language leads to psychological or physical harm, it can be sued and seen as a criminal act.

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Alternative medicine and complementary integrative medicine practices and approaches

Alternative medicine is any medicine that is contrary to evidence-based medicine usually initiating from a historical or cultural, rather than evidence-based or scientific, background.

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The Army recruitment office as a rite of passage into adulthood

The door leading into the recruitment center didn't really attract attention in any way.

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Teen pregnancy rates and social outcomes in greater Boston

Teenage pregnancy is medically defined as a pregnancy in a woman who has not yet reached her 20th birthday. Legally, it has numerous definitions, depending upon the country and culture of origin. .

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Arabian Nights and Western Orientalism in Burton's translation

Long before the invention of the internet, the world relied upon literature to gain knowledge about other cultures.

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