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Defining violence and examining video game effects on youth

"It depends," Eisenman (2004) stresses in regard to whether playing violent video games, one of the primary contemporary substitutions for yesteryears' play, increases violence in youth.

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Pornography exposure and objectification of women in college males

No matter what the atmosphere might have been at home, at college, the American male finds himself in an environment where he is surrounded with sexually-explicit stimuli, such as advertisements, posters, magazines, music and media.

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Comparing person-centered and cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches

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Geert Hofstede's theory of culture as software of the mind

In his attempt to argue the importance of culture in human relations, Geert Hofstede (2005) resorts to the following introductory paragraph for the first chapter of his book Culture and Organizations. Software of the Mind:

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Interpersonal conflict and religious hypocrisy in Molière's Tartuffe

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Charisma as a dimension of transformational leadership

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Types and health effects of eating disorders

Eating disorder is an issue for many people and there is significant ratio of eating disorder many people are still suffering. There are different types of eating disorders people suffer.

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Same-sex couples and adoption policy in the United States

Adoption is an important social and legal process whereby children without parents are placed in homes and given full status as members of a family.

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Rhetorical analysis of the Trim Spa advertisement featuring Anna Nicole Smith

After years of being obese, as prominently displayed in a television series following her daily life, Anna Nichole suddenly lost all her excess bodyweight and regained the figure that had enabled her to work as a model and actress, and before that, as an exotic dancer in Texas.

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Language delays and premorbid functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Whitehurst, G.J. Arnold, D.S. Smith, M. Fischel, J.E. Lonigan, C.J. Valdez-Menchaca, M.C. (October 1991) Family History in Developmental Expressive Language Delay. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.34 1150-1157.

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