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Stem cell interventions for treating Parkinson's disease

Since Barack Obama has become president, the field of stem cell research has been given new life. One of Obama's campaign pledges

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The stay-put provision and school discipline in Honig v. Doe

There are several issues addressed in Honig v. Doe, which is the Supreme Court's only decision defining the limits of the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA), which is now called the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA).

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Critical thinking and decision-making for managers

Critical thinking is the rationally closely controlled process of aggressively and competently conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and assessing information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

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Chong et al.'s analysis of democratic and capitalist values acquisition in America

In Patterns of Support for Democratic and Capitalist Values in the United States, Chong et al. discuss America's political culture and values from the point-of-view that they are now and have historically been based in both democracy and capitalism.

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Cognitive dissonance and opinion change under forced compliance

The article presented for the purposes of this paper, below, is written by two Stanford University scholars and focuses, as one can see from the above title, on "Cognitive Consequence of Forced Compliance." While the title sounds very academic, and is deeply pensive, one must ask exactly what this…

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Christianity and Islam's rapid growth through religious motivation

By the 13 century in Europe, Christianity though was a relatively young religion, in comparison to Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and others had become the largest religion in the world.

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The prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration in America

There are over two million people incarcerated in the United States today, this comes out to fifteen prisoners for every 100,000 persons (Pager, 2003, p. 937). This is a 600% increase since the 1970s and gives the country the highest internment rate on the planet.

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Logical fallacies and their impact on critical thinking

The choices that people make determine the shape of things to come. This observation holds true at the individual, organizational, national, and global level. Therefore, it is obvious that close attention needs to be paid to critical thinking ability or the way decisions are made.

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Internal divisions and shared concerns within the GLBTQ community

The GLBTQ (gay lesbian bisexual transgendered and questioning) community is defined by the interests and concerns of a number of different members of this group.

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Analysis and critique of a job interview interaction and communication dynamics

The recruiter opened slightly awkwardly with the comment that the interviewee should call her Liz (line 3); not only did it strike an oddly informal tone that was not at all maintained throughout the rest of the near-textbook interview, which seemed generally stiff and highly formal.

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