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Intelligent and altruistic behavior during disasters

According to the article "Crowd control" by John Drury and Stephen D. Reicher from Scientific American, despite the expectation that crowds tend to panic during disasters, evidence suggests that people are able to behave intelligently and even altruistically during a crisis.

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Robert Bellah's critique of American individualism and social commitment

Today, America is at a crossroads. Americans must ask themselves the question: do we as a society attempt to use government intervention to create a more equitable America, or do we trust the capitalist system to improve individual American's lives?

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Metaphor of milk in occupational therapy practice

Someone who bestows occupational therapy often acts as a teacher to his or her clients, but the therapist also learns from the clients about not taking things for granted, like being able to pour a simple glass of milk, and to savor its taste.

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Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory in nursing practice

The need for patient self-care has been increasingly emphasized within the healthcare system for economic and social reasons. More and more patients are being cared for at home, often by individuals such as family members who lack formal healthcare training.

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Religious iconography in paintings by van Eyck and El Greco

Working thousands of kilometers apart from one another, and separated also by a century of time, Jan van Eyck and El Greco share in common few technical or formal elements.

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Anne Sexton's "The Abortion": symbolism, moral ambiguity, and emotional conflict

Abortion," Anne Sexton repeats the line, "Somebody who should have been born / is gone." The narrator treats abortion as "loss without death," indicating that an abortion falls into a moral grey area.

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Developmental theories of socialization: Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg, and others

While most of the major sociological theorists of the 20th century conceived of human beings as socially-driven animals, all of these major writers placed different emphases on different aspects of the socialization process.

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Confidentiality barriers in military mental health counseling settings

Dao, J. And Frosch, D. "Military Rules Said to Hinder Therapy." The New York Times. (December 7, 2009). The concept of counselor-patient confidentiality is very different in military counseling settings than it is in ordinary (i.e. civilian) counseling environments.

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Evaluating health bills addressing childhood obesity through feasibility and enforceability

Feasibility: Even the most ambitious and idealistic bill is of little use if it is not workable under current legal and financial constraints.

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Active inquiry, objective knowledge, and student self-esteem in education

Learning through active intellectual inquiry is much more effective than learning through traditional, passive, lecture-and-textbook teaching methodologies.

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