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Aging and mortality in Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom. Specifically it will discuss the essence of aging portrayed in the book and existential psychology.

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Stress and coping mechanisms among international university students

There are as many areas of stress and time pressures in the world as there are areas of study, and there have been a wide variety of studies conducted on the effects of stress and how human beings handle such effects.

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The Beast of the Ukraine: Andrei Chikatilo's criminal history

The case of Andrei Chikatilo will go down in criminal justice records as among the most bizarre and bloodthirsty cases in history. Chikatilo was known as "The Beast of the Ukraine," and for good reason.

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Biological and psychological determinism in serial murder

There are several theories which claim to explain why we act the way we do. The way we behave has been attributed to biological factors as well as psychological factors.

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Deception and incommunicability in Hemingway's Soldier's Home

Like many other of Hemingway's works Soldier's Home reflects the destructive effects of war on the lives of the former soldiers. In his short story, Hemingway emphasizes the impossibility of conveying or sharing the experience of war with the people that have not actually participated in it.

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Press coverage of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial

The murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks and the subsequent arrest and trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were heavy on the minds of the public in 1924, as the sensationalism of this extreme case were evident even to those who were closest to it.

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NASCAR's evolution: sponsorship, branding, and expanding regional markets

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is one of America's favorite past times, but predominantly synonymous as such with areas of the Midwest, South and Southeast.

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How undergraduate education prepared me for counseling

For the past ten years I have worked in a psychiatric division of a local hospital where I have worked with dual diagnosis patients. Every day I find myself using something I learned from my college education when working with these patients.

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Self-confidence development in Adler and Ellis's psychological theories

Self-Confidence Theory is a psychological and sociological approach to understanding how individuals view themselves in terms of others and how feelings of self-confidence are or are not developed. There is no set theory that explains the process and phenomena of individual self-confidence.

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Effectiveness of in-class versus online learning environments

The purposes of the research study completed and reported by Poirier, Christopher, R., & Feldman, Robert S. (2004) centered on the effectiveness of in-class vs.

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