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Deliberate play and practice in athletic coaching

Being a coach who employs deliberate play and deliberate practice concepts in my practice sessions, as well as during games, allows me to incorporate the athlete's feelings and thoughts into situations involving the game.

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Emotions and personality in workplace organizational behavior and performance

The significance of personality and emotions in the workplace today continues to be actively debated within the academic and practitioner professional communities.

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Comparing Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories of cognitive development

The objective of this work is to compare and contrast Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Development. Additionally this work will provide specific examples of how teachers can incorporate each of these theories in the classroom."

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Counseling Joey's transition using Clarkson's Five Relationship Model

Because the 14-year-old male (for purposes of this paper his name is "Joey") had lived thirteen and a half years with his father, in the environment that will be described in this paper, Joey has a very tough row to hoe. Very tough.

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Child abuse and neglect: history, causes, and protective responses

What part does the Child Protection Agencies play in protecting our children? Are the States laws helping or hindering the process? I will present research data, which will show the increase of child abuse from year to year.

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Online education versus traditional classroom learning: student preferences and concerns

Whether students prefer online learning or in-class learning largely depends on many factors, including how much socialization a student is looking for and whether he or she is happy with the commute and the classroom setting.

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Parental influence on children's intelligence and moral development

The library is full of books about what creates a child who is curious and motivated to learn. Graeber (1998) points out that because most people fall in the "average" intelligence range, genes are not as crucial to intelligence as environment.

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Thomas More's utopia and George Orwell's dystopian critique

The idea of the dystopia is related to the idea of the utopia, and it has become a staple in speculative literature and film. A dystopia is a society that does not work for the benefit of its members, while a utopia is one that is ideal.

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Living with borderline personality disorder: a personal account

Do you know how it feels to totally not be in control of yourself? To be slave of your emotion? How about being unable to sustain a relationship, not even with the people who care for you the most? Have you ever felt totally alone it crossed you're mind to die?

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Parenting confusion: media influence on child-rearing decisions

The quality of child rearing is an essential element of a child's well-being. but, first and foremost, what do you mean by child rearing? It is training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes of different societies, at different economic levels, in different ethnic groups, etc.

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