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Epicurus's argument against the rationality of fearing death

You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. -- Milan Kundera, Immortality

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Crime and punishment in Victorian England's economic transformation

The issue of crime and requisite punishment has been a part of human society for millennia. It seems that given the human condition a certain percentage of any population tends towards deviance from laws and regulations designed to allow society to prosper.

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How online dating facilitates self-presentation for socially uncomfortable individuals

With the internet and other social media tools becoming as common as face-to-face interactions, it is no wonder that more people are turning to internet dating as a means of finding a partner.

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Television's influence on American attitudes toward homosexuality

This paper will look at the rise of homosexual portrayals in televised media, and whether or not the increase has helped inspire a greater social awareness and acceptance of homosexuality in America; one factor being that the stigma once associated with homosexuality has significantly lessened…

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The scientific research process: qualitative and quantitative methodologies

The primary process of research is to discover, interpret, and (in the case of applied research) use certain methods that will lead to more reliable, evidence-based knowledge about our world.

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Personality traits in panic disorder treatment and agoraphobia development

Panic disorder is a comparatively heterogeneous disorder, with its center characteristic, the knowledge of frequent unanticipated panic attacks, surrounding a diversity of somatic, physiological, and cognitive indications that can vary from patient to patient.

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Organizational competences for business intelligence system benefit realization

Business intelligence (BI) systems comprise one of the largest and fastest growing areas of it expenditure in companies today. Companies? experiences with deriving benefits from these systems are still mixed.

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Multicultural leadership strategies for effective team management

In the fast-paced and increasingly internationalized world of business that exists today, the number of multicultural interactions that take place between companies and even within the same company and office is reaching ever higher.

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Vygotsky's zone of proximal development in classroom instruction

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of education turns on the process of dialectic, in which, "while admitting the influence of nature on man," one must assert that man, "in turn, affects nature and creates through his changes in nature new natural conditions for his existence" (qtd in John-Steiner and…

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Teaching and Learning Together program's impact on classroom engagement

Cook-Sather, a. (2009). "I'm not afraid to listen: Prospective teachers learning from students." Theory Into Practice, 48(3), 176-183.

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