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Justine Picardie's portrayal of Coco Chanel's self-invention and mythmaking

Justine Picardie's Coco is a glitzy celebration of designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's life.

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Subconscious sexual attraction, gender differences, and biological imperatives

Sexual desire is a complex science, perhaps equally impacted by sociological imperatives as by innate biological imperatives.

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Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim's theories of social interaction

Over the decades, a number of different theories have been presented which are designed to highlight the way everyone in society is interacting with each other. This is having a profound impact upon how people think and view the world around them.

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Kant's moral philosophy and contemporary individualism in the 21st century

Everything changes. There is no denying this constant truth in life. In fact, this is especially true for humanity. We change as individuals in terms of individual, personal development.

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Responses to queue jumping by vehicle type in Melbourne petrol stations

A recent study of responses to intrusions in different waiting lines in front of 49 different people, with 26 being male 18-58 years old and 23 being 18-61-year-old females, in different Melbourne petrol queues..

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Effects of mainstream social media on children's development

Technology surrounds everything that children participate in nowadays. From using computers to watching television, the media influences children in just about every activity that they are a part of.

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Family disintegration as a root cause of juvenile delinquency

Juveniles are represented either in the legal system through the juvenile family court designed for children many years ago or by the criminal court system meant for adults.

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Lashley's engram and the neural basis of learning and memory

Lashley sought to find the engram, the physiological representation of learning. In general terms, how would you recognize an engram if you saw one? That is, what would someone have to demonstrate before you could conclude that a particular change in the nervous system was really an engram?

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Effects of nerve growth factor antibodies on developing nervous systems

Biologists can develop antibodies against nerve growth factor (i.e., molecules that inactivate nerve growth factor). What would happen if someone injected such antibodies into a developing nervous system?

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System failures in foster care and child welfare protection

Children have an entitlement to safe, stable, and nurturing families. However, to most children, this is a dream that is yet to come true, since abuse and neglect has become part of lives of a significant number of children.

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