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Violence in inner city schools and juvenile crime prevention through education

Maximum Security: The Culture of Violence in Inner City Schools and How to Establish a Climate for Learning One of the most notorious school shootings ever perpetrated, the Columbine High School Massacre affected forever the students, teachers, and community of Columbine, Colorado, in addition to…

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Rehabilitation and treatment of individuals with pedophilia

Human sexuality manifests itself in many ways, such as intimacy between two people that might lead to forming life-long bonds of partnership or marriage. As an expression of the sharing and intimacy that arises out of the bonds of partnership and marriage, children are born.

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Historical attitudes toward youth and authority in "Thank You, Ma'm"

Thank You, Ma'm by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) represents a time period of American social culture characterized by different attitudes, language, and values than those prevailing in contemporary American society.

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Schumpeter's theory of capitalism's transformation to socialism

The objective of this work is to research the theory of Joseph Schumpeter, which held that the demise of capitalism would lead to corporatism. Schumpeter's theory will be contrasted with Marx's theory of capitalism that would evolve into socialism.

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The relationship between school bullying and academic performance

Feller (2003) defines school bullying as "aggressive and repeated behavior based on an imbalance of power among people" adding that "it ranges from slapping, kicking and other physical abuse to verbal assaults to the new frontier: cyberbullying, in which kids use e-mail and Web sites to humiliate…

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The internet's effects on identity formation in adolescents

The Internet has facilitated communication, commerce, and information dissemination. However, the downside to the Internet has become the topic of recent research due to the proliferation of digital media and the ways the computer has infiltrated human society.

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Comparing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Bernstein's West Side Story

Shakespeare's play: Romeo and Juliet / film and musical: West Side Story / one of Leonard Bernstein's songs used in the film

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Police crisis training for mental illness assessment: officers' experiences and program evaluation

The methodologies selected for this study were the meta-synthesis approach developed by Noblit and Hare (1988) and a content analysis technique described by Neuman (2003) and others. The meta-synthesis approach allows researchers to draw broad substantive interpretations from various sources.

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Ann Jones's "Next Time, She'll Be Dead": domestic violence and legal accountability

Jones, Ann. (2000). Next Time, She'll Be Dead. Boston: Beacon Press. Summary of the book: Jones asserts that her own father was "a drunk, a wife beater and a child abuser" (Jones, 1). She discusses her own experiences with violence in the first few pages of her Introduction.

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Self-talk's effects on mental and physical health

The idea of a connection between how we think and the state of our metal and physical health is not new.

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