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Mental health risks and disparities among gay and lesbian youth

The place of the homosexual person in today's society has become an electrically charged breeding ground for misunderstanding, emotional sound bites, and political rhetoric.

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The personal health benefits of volunteering

While an academic definition of volunteerism is any activity in which time and talent is given freely to deliver services or perform tasks to benefit another person, group or cause with no direct financial compensation expected, volunteering is really just a more organized form of giving of…

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Artificiality and fame culture in Hollywood fiction: Sunset Boulevard and beyond

The idea of artificiality in Hollywood fiction and in Los Angeles will be mainly discussed and elaborated further in the paper. The ideas, arguments and the statements regarding the Hollywood fame culture and artificiality will be supported by the examples of the movies.

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Imagery therapy in nursing practice for stress, anxiety, and depression management

The use of imagery visualization and imagery therapy as an important part of the professional nurse repertoire has recently begun receiving attention in the Nursing profession as well as in other healing-related professions.

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Abortion statistics and psychological effects: separating fact from fiction

In this day and age it is almost impossible to find a more highly charged issue than that of abortion. Every man and woman appears to have an opinion if not personal experience or knows a family member who has had to make the decision about an unplanned pregnancy.

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Small schools and the development of caring teacher-student relationships

This paper is on building caring relationships between teachers and students. Research and experience indicates that schools with small classrooms as in having a restricted number of students are a great source of encouraging teacher cooperation and shared planning, with greater emphasis on the…

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Jealousy as a dangerous and destructive human emotion

Jealousy is an emotion, but it is also a concept, and not necessarily one of the most positive and helpful emotions a person can have. Jealousy depends on others to feed it, and so, jealousy cannot survive in a vacuum.

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Domestic violence across all social classes and education levels

Arguments that propose that domestic violence is not restricted to some susceptible social groups identified earlier Steps to prevent the malady

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Freud's psychological analysis of dream interpretation and the unconscious mind

Sigmund Freud's 1908 work, The Interpretation of Dreams, is his attempt to place apply the psychological analysis to the study of dreams. The work relies heavily upon Freud's understanding of how the unconscious and conscious mind control both the meaning and interpretation of dreams.

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Pathological gambling as a progressive addiction and disease

Compulsive or pathological gambling [...] pathological gamblers and why they do not gamble for entertainment or retreatist purposes, but rather to try to chase their losses and beat the machine or the game they are playing.

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