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The role of probation officers in the American criminal justice system

Some might describe America as being a nation of prisoners. There is no escaping the fact that our society produces many laws that result in many infractions of these laws which eventually result in many prisoners and court cases.

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The economic impact of medical errors on healthcare systems and patient safety reform

The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System pulled the curtain back on the dark secret of medical errors (Institute of Medicine, 2000).

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Respiratory adaptation from fishes to frogs: evolutionary lung development

The energy needed to sustain life depends on the reduction of oxygen during glycolysis, thereby producing ATP, water, and carbon dioxide.

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Omid's story: family-centered care and pediatric nursing

Being ill is never a simple thing. Besides the physical tolls a medical condition can take on a person's body, there are also many mental and psychological costs that affect a sick person. Nor do these physical and mental effects only harm the person with the medical condition.

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Narrative analysis and institutional bias in healthcare decision-making

Crepeau (2000) entitled "Reconstructing Gloria" attempts to unsettle rather than describe or confirm existing healthcare paradigms by using a narrative analysis of the team meetings of hospital workers at a mental health facility.

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The corporeal manifestation of race and health outcomes in marginalized communities

Race represents the recognition of otherness, but in contrast to the many other ways that people choose to group individuals, the outward differences society associates with race is inherently unchangeable.

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Urban legends and society's fears in media culture

Urban legends about in our culture, as Neal Gabler points out in "How Urban Myths Reveal Society's Fears." Some urban myths started out as true stories but were later exaggerated to become the hyperbole they are now. For example, some rappers really are from the projects -- the ghetto.

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Concrete imagery in Fairy Soap advertising and psycholinguistic manipulation

The 'Fairy Soap' advertisement was used and investigated for the use of concrete imagery -- a strategy of psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics says that concrete imagery not only forges associations but also makes imagery more vivid and helps reader comprehend and faster remember words.

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Steven Mintz's "Moralists and Modernizers": Pre-Civil War American Reform

In the decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the Civil War, the United States and many Western European nations were engaged in societal changes which continue to this day.

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Ethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research

The term 'stem cells' can mean different things to different people. For some, it conjures images of medical miracles providing solutions for heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. For others, it terrifies with a future filled with cloned humans.

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