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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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Media relations and confidentiality in probation officer leadership

Learning to effectively deal with the media is a sensitive responsibility and not one that most probation officers will likely face under most situations but some criminal cases generate considerable public interest.

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Qualitative research approaches for understanding military combat PTSD

Individuals returning from military combat are among the most vulnerable demographics to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its related consequences of emotional instability, psychological despair, substance abuse and a host of other war-related dissonances.

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