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Female serial killers: Belle Gunness, Nannie Doss, and Aileen Wournos

For many years, people assumed that serial killers were male. This assumption was partially accurate, as the killers who preyed upon random strangers were generally male.

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Parental alienation syndrome examined through family systems theory

Parental alienation is stated to be a term that has been coined for the purpose of describing "a phenomenon that occurs when a child becomes allied with one parent and disparages or rejects the other." (Appell, nd) This is generally known to occur in "cases of high conflict divorce." (Appell, nd)…

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Enright's forgiveness therapy model with young married couples after infidelity

Enright's Forgiveness Therapy on the Success of marriages of Couples Ages 18-34 After Infidelity Forgiveness is hard thing to achieve in full honesty. Yet, it is an important step in moving past an act of infidelity or other injury.

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Amadou Hampate Ba's use of didactic storytelling in Tijanyya tradition

The objective of this study is to examine how Amadou Hampate Ba uses stories as didactic tools on the mystical ways of the Tijanyya tradition.

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Defining child sexual abuse and incest: legal and conceptual gaps

Child sexual abuse is an extremely common phenomenon in the United States and unlike what most people believe, 80% children are sexually abused by a family member while 19% children are abused by those they trust and are comfortable hanging out with and only 1% children are abused by a stranger.

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Arguments for lowering the legal drinking age to 18

Health professionals, educators and public officials have argued that underage drinking is a serious sociological concern and a major public health crisis in the United States.

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Family processes, self-control, and criminal behavior in two cases

the major cause of delinquency and crime over the life course is low self-control and the major cause of low self-control is family processes of informal social control… at no point in the life course should informal social control have a direct effect on delinquency

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Ethical management and recruitment practices at NatHealth Nutrition Inc.

NatHealth Nutrition Inc. is a commercial organization that provides comprehensive food services to businesses and other organizations.

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Observational assessment of a six-year-old daughter's developmental stage

Playing quietly alone on the floor with two dolls -- Barbies. Subject entirely unconcerned with the fact that they are without clothes. Has a wooden pizza in pieces (different ingredients, etc.) on the floor also. Barbies are going to make a pizza.

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Freeman's theory of time perception, intention, and causation in human action

Perception of time and causation through the kinesthesia of intentional action" by Walter J. Freeman III (2008) addresses issues of time perception and relates these to causation and intention in human action.

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