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The Great Migration: African Americans moving from South to North, 1914-1929

Between 1914 and 1929, approximately one million African-American individuals moved from the rural south to the more industrial north in a mass exodus known as the Great Migration.

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Causes and trends of juvenile homicide in New York State

Although the number of high-profile school shootings by juveniles appears to be on the rise, the overall rate of juvenile homicides has been tapering off after a record high in 1993.

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Special education interventions for students with autism spectrum disorder

The Role of Special Education in Dealing with Students with Impairments and a Critical Insight over Preparing for Collaborative Team Teaching

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Western perceptions of women's roles in Islamic society

The Western perception of Islam is of a religion that is especially restrictive of women. Christianity has had its own more restrictive policies toward women in the past, but the West believes it has evolved to a more equitable view of the rights of women and of equality of the sexes.

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Pre-operative nursing education and patient anxiety in cardiac surgery

The effects of pre-operative nursing teaching on the stress/anxiety level of patients who will undergo heart surgeries and percutaneous interventions

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Video modeling as an instructional strategy for autistic children

The reason for this increase is placed on a range of possibilities, including diet, medications and more-sophisticated ways of testing the disorder. As the number of children with autism increases nationally, school districts are being reshaped to meet the needs of these students.

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Giant Robot magazine's evolution from underground publication to cultural phenomenon

Although most adults and even many young adults and youth have not heard of the magazine Giant Robot, since first being published in 1994, it has become as well-known to select audiences as People Magazine or Rolling Stone.

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How smell, taste, and sight interact in flavor perception

It is a fact that taste is something that is directly influenced by the smell and the sight of the object that one is faced with.

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Early attachment and social withdrawal in a two-year-old boy

Healthy early childhood development is highly dependent on some rather simple, yet profound variables. The first few feelings that an infant has are very basic instinctual attachments or bonding to his or her immediate environmental surroundings, including caregivers.

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Motivational theories explaining drug addiction and addictive behavior

Addictive behavior is a process that it initiated by certain motivational factors and causative features. The use of psychological theories to describe and analyze these motivational patterns of behavior is essential in order to understand and create preventative strategies to combat addiction.

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