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Gender dysphoria in children: biological and social explanations

Gender is not an absolute or guaranteed condition in the human experience, and even young children can experience some confusion concerning their perceptions of what gender they should be based on powerful family, cultural and social influences.

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School-based mental health programs for at-risk African American adolescents

school-based mental health program on emotional intelligence, social behaviors, psychopathology and academic performance of inner- city [at -risk / African-American] adolescents

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Sociological theories of mate selection and marital exchange

What spurs our attraction for others? How do we choose who we love and who we will marry? Such questions have founded many theoretical conceits within the realm of classic and modern sociology.

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How American celebrity culture has shaped fashion and society

Since the early times mankind has given great importance to fashion and the concept of fashion has permanently undergone changes as people constantly renewed their style. Looking back we can observe that people's clothing and thinking has greatly varied from an epoch to another.

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Affirmative action's impact on race relations in higher education

Affirmative action, in higher education and elsewhere has been a hotly debated issue, since its inception, among a group of minority faculty and faculty organization from U.S.

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Reality therapy and choice theory in counseling practice

Reality Therapy is a practical approach to helping people take responsibility for their lives.

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Moments of truth" in experiential family therapy practice"

INTRODUCTION myriad of experiences contribute to the fabric of a person's life, however only a few of a person's experiences define him/her. In "Profiles in courage: one lost a parent, one lost his health, one lost her way, and the other sought the family he never knew...," Caroline V.

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Fleming's VARK learning styles theory and classroom application

Fleming, Neil. VARK: A Guide to Learning Style. (2007). Retrieved December 9, 2008, at http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=categories.

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Rape fantasies among women: psychological theories and triggers

The main idea behind focusing on the concept of rape fantasies in relation to the topic of women and rape is that an all-encompassing, thorough, theoretical and practical philosophy can be formed that can clearly and explicitly remove whatever doubts or inclinations that people have on the false…

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Plato's ideal state compared with Soviet communist practice

The ideal state that Plato describes in what is arguably his best known work, the Republic, may seem horribly oppressive to the modern democratic mind.

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