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21 Aug 2014
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The main causes of global warming

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

In the recent past, the world as a whole has come to terms with the increasing incidences of heightened and elevated temperatures across all continents. The Northern and Southern hemispheres are experiencing high temperatures and this is leading to the melting of the ice at the snow caps and this...

21 Aug 2014
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Person perception and interpersonal behavior

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

People behave different in different situations. Psychology has many approaches that help people to understand each other. It facilitates expression of people through personal perception, Set groupings depending on behavioral trait, gives expectations of either positive or negative altitude, set...

21 Aug 2014
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Religion in Nazi Germany

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Nazi German/ The Third Reich refer to Germany during the reign of Hitler and his ruling Nazi Party also called the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party). In 1933, the Nazi party took over Germany and started running the political, social and economic sectors of the country. Between...

21 Aug 2014
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Child Labor in India

Case study - 7 pages - Psychology

Child labor can be defined as any practice that involves employing children in economic activities either on permanent full time or semi permanent part time basis. It involves the violation the minimum age laws and include the excruciating abuse such as child trafficking, forced labor, child...

21 Aug 2014
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Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Regardless of the racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have built up rich intellectual tradition they are well known off. The author investigates the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as other African-American women outside the feminist class. Patricia...

21 Aug 2014
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Amid An Epidemic of School Shootings, Some Teachers Are Being Trained To Shoot Back

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Rhetoric is the art of improving the capability of the speakers or writers to convince and motivate the audience in a particular direction. There are three modes of persuasion that are used in rhetoric that is; ethos, pathos and logos. (Joyce & Robert 10) Ethos is achieved by the speaker or...

21 Aug 2014
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Counseling Psychology: Case study

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

Counseling psychology is a career whose specialty involves helping people gain control of their feelings. It is a class of applied psychology that uses research and applied work to give treatment to clients who experience variety of emotional, social and behavioral problems. Among other...

21 Aug 2014
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Chronic kidney disease education

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

Chronic kidney disease is a health condition that is characterized by progressive loss in renal function over time. The disease is detected during screening people known to be most likely to be at risk of kidney problems, for example, hypertensive people and diabetics. The difference to acute...

19 Aug 2014
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Nigerian War: The Ultimate Sacrifice for narrators shifting to the theme of war

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

During the 21st century, fictions have come out of Nigeria marking the attempts of dealing with displacement and identity by the childhood ideas. The attempts are not successful because it is a fact that Nigeria has transformed itself during the nineteen sixties to the nineties from the military...

19 Aug 2014
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Common Academic Goals in American Universities

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

A goal is a desired result that an individual makes a conscious effort to achieve (Weatherford et al., 1960). Universities are institutions of higher learning that instill technical as well as cultural and social skills to students. In the universities, the students are required to set aims and...

19 Aug 2014
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Recommendations for Community-Based Practitioners

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Community-based corrections have experienced significant growth in the last few years. The correction has grown unabated since 1980, and the growth has significant implications for the correction agencies on matters on how to make decisions related to caseload and workload issues. The caseload...

19 Aug 2014
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Positive Psychology and Judaism- "Have a Little more Faith: A True Story" written by Mitch Albom

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

In the novel, “Have a Little Faith,” Mitch Albom presents a true story about someone who had the fear for his Rabbi in his childhood, and began to fear faith itself into his adulthood. When he left his hometown, his childhood Rabbi asked him (Albom) to deliver his eulogy when he dies....

19 Aug 2014
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Miranda V. Arizona case

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Miranda V Arizona remains one of the most law enforcement cases to have ever been handed down by the United States' Supreme Court. There is no other decision in the history of United States that have ever affected the law enforcement procedures and policies than the 5-4 opinion. A decision from...

19 Aug 2014
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Steps Involved in Risk Assessment

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Risk assessment refers to the process of identifying the hazards that might occur, as well as, analyzing its consequences in case it happens. In as much as the five steps and their tasks are helpful in risk assessment when a terror attack on a building occurs it might not be applicable to...

19 Aug 2014
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Classification of Mental Disorders

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Anxiety is a typical human emotion experienced by every individual at some point in life for instance, when faced with a problematic situation or a test at school. On the other hand, anxiety disorders cause distress to the individual thus interfering with the level of normality (Connolly et...

19 Aug 2014
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The impacts of Great Depression on Chinese America

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

The article describes a new hope for America as compared to how it used to be in the twenty first Century. American colonial rebellion led to its fight against all abusing culture that bureaucracies in Europe and China petrified. Some year back, Americans found themselves in challenging...

13 Aug 2014
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Birthright Citizenship Control in the United States

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Birthright citizenship is a federal law provision that grants all children born within the United States automatic citizenship regardless of their parental heritage (Lacey par 1). U.S and Canada are the lone developed countries that offer automatic citizenship to all children born regardless of...

13 Aug 2014
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Human rights violation in North

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Human rights are based on the rule of respect for human life and the individual. The fundamental supposition of human rights is that every person is a moral, rational being who deserves to be treated with reverence and dignity. Human rights are universal henceforth should be enjoyed by every...

13 Aug 2014
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The Arab Spring Revolution

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The Arab Spring Revolution is also known as the Arab Uprising began in December in 2010. Its origin was Tunisia where Mohammed Bouazizi a vendor, set himself ablaze in protest to police harassment (Terryn et al. 11). After this ordeal, many Arab countries for instance Lebanon, Syria, Egypt,...

13 Aug 2014
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Research Critique: Meta-Analysis of Nurses' Job Satisfaction

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Job satisfaction in nursing poses a critical challenge to healthcare institutions since the cost of labor is high, and shortages are common. The supplies are not sufficient to meet the requirements as the nurses' demands increase. As projected by the Bureau of Labor statistics (2005), additional...

13 Aug 2014
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Change and Continuity in the Context of Chinese History

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Young and Restless in China is a documentary that chronicles the events of some young people in their twenties and thirties as they try to adapt to the dynamic economic and social situations in China (Klayman, 2012). This documentary brings to light the challenges encountered by the Chinese...

13 Aug 2014
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Nelson Mandela-Long Walk to Freedom

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

There is a debate about the main determinant of personality in psychology. Some hold that nurture hold the biggest influence while others insist that nature is a bigger influence. This paper will take both views as determinant in personality. The nature view would imply that his birth had a big...

13 Aug 2014
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Gender Commercial Analysis- Examples of Gender bias and stereotypes in television adverts

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The main purpose of advertisements is to make people change their behavior. In many cases, people are influenced by the model because they aspire to have the same trends. Therefore, the presentation of commercials tells an interesting story about gender roles in popular culture. Due to the...

13 Aug 2014
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E-Learning in education-role, applicability, and advantages

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Despite limitless opportunities, the field of education has remained painfully stagnated in usage of technology. The stagnation is so sticking that there are few differences between the classrooms and approaches today and 20 years ago. However, the area has started to advance, and e-learning has...

13 Aug 2014
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Psychogenetic Non-epileptic Seizure case study

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Psychogenetic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), commonly known as nonepileptic attacks are involuntary behaviors, movement or sensation that are similar to epileptic seizures (Schachte, and Andres, 2010). However, unlike epileptic seizures, PNES do not exhibit the normal electrical discharge that is...

13 Aug 2014
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Religious Studies: The relationship between philosophy and religion

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Philosophy and religion have a very intimate relationship as both try to have a more unified and complete understanding of the world. For instance, philosophy put more emphasis on trying to gain a complete and unified understanding of the world in a way that surpasses the doing of science. On the...

13 Aug 2014
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The Issue of Homosexuality and Marriage Analysis

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

A marriage is a life union between two people in love. Both advocators and opposers of homosexual marriage have differing perspectives on the sensitive issue of same-sex marriage. However, regardless of whether it is heterosexual or homosexual, marriage should be based on love, care and...

13 Aug 2014
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Teaching business culture: Yvonne Mueller

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

The society involvement in inventiveness gears towards worldwide students may offer universities with the capability to improve the values of and make a more satisfying overall worldwide student experience. Nevertheless, few universities have created this as a field of competitive edge. Worldwide...

13 Aug 2014
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Current trends in united parcel service (UPS) system

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

In a globe that is constantly shifting towards digitalization and automation of delivery of goods and services, the value of delivery services cannot be overstated. It represents the future of the retail industry. The current social, demographic, workforce and economic trends show that there is a...

13 Aug 2014
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The article 'gun control and gun rights' Analysis

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The article ‘gun control and gun rights' makes a case about the wrong timing of the current gun debates as well as the unsuitability of the proposed rules. Though the report does not specify the targeted audience, the reader is led to assume that it is written for all Americans with the hope...