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Substance abuse in the American workplace: causes and policy solutions

The statistics are sobering. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration estimates that of America's 17.2 million illicit drug users, three quarters are employed either full-time or part-time.

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Understanding schizophrenia: theories, definitions, and symptom classification

It is literally one of the strangest and most difficult to understand mental illnesses (Sass 1). The name taken from the Greek means the split mind, and is the product of two words of "schizo" which means split and "phrene" which means mind.

~9 min read

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Prosecutorial discretion and racial disparities in the criminal justice system

Ethics in Justice System-How we treat Minorities vs. The whites. Ethics or the moral philosophy is the study of right and wrong.

~22 min read

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Billy Mitchell's innovative leadership and vision for air power

Billy Mitchell was a leader ahead of his time. His outspoken leadership style propelled him to legendary status that far exceeded most other leaders in his field. His remarkable sense of insight and intuition had a tremendous and enduring impact on the U.S.

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Teen dating violence: prevalence, effects, and offender rehabilitation

Teen dating violence runs cuts across race, gender, and socioeconomic lines. Both males and females are victims, but boys and girls are abusive in different ways (National Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative, 2006, p.1).

~19 min read

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A practice framework for child protective services in social work

Social Work is an extremely broad and encompassing field of practice. For those of us engaged in the profession, communities, neighborhood, families and other such contained contexts will serve as the framework for programs, practices and personnel dispatched to improve lives.

~15 min read

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Leading organizational change in America's K-12 schools: a literature review

Creating positive changes in America's schools is a key responsibility of educational leaders.

~20 min read

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Family fulfillment and Cold War domestic containment in American literature

Both of the authors Elaine Tyler May in Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War and Coming of Age in Mississippi by Ann Moody see the institution of the family as something that was a mixture of limiting and liberating influences both for men and women during the 1940s, 1950s, and early…

~9 min read

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Fourth generation warfare: history, definitions, and theoretical debates

Some analysts have argued that "fourth generation warfare" is new. This author will argue that there is nothing new about fourth generation warfare. Modern military analysts have simply been ignoring it because they know how to do second and third generation warfare.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace: definitions, categories, and policies

The environment within a company can become hostile and embattled based on the nature of the relationships between employees. The organization is also cognizant that the work place dynamics may facilitate sexual harassment (O'Leary-Kelly, Paetzold, & Griffin, 2000).

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