" In refining my self-study I was able to more clearly and specifically outline (and define) the three aspects of my self-study, which had previously been more difficult to track due to the generalized nature of the initial research question. Throughout academic literature regarding anxiety, experts have proven that there are numerous ways that one can reduce their overall stress and anxiety. ... Decreasing Anxiety - Review of Literature It has been well documented that individuals who are perfectionists often experience increased stress and anxiety in relation to participation in academi...

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The CDC has 18-studies of note varying from post service mortality to health communication and health risk (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). ... The following 15-literature reviews will present information to support the hypothesis of pseudo-PTSD presentations among individuals in veteran populations for secondary gains. ... The authors of the next research article actually initiated two studies. ... While the result of the study verifies the hypotheses, college students were the study sample-essentially substituting for veterans. ... Unfortunately, there are limitations t...

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We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. ... What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ...

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1 Enoch is one of the foundational texts of Jewish apocalyptic literature. 1 Though not an official part of the Jewish canon, Enoch's journey into the realm of angels, and God's revelation of "all mysteries" (Enoch 59:2) regarding the end of days and the salvation of the elect do form an important scaffolding upon which subsequent Jewish apocalyptic literature is built. ... In this paper, a review of the literature regarding Enoch's influence on Revelation will be followed by an analysis of the similarities and differences in the symbols and themes of Enoch and the Re...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". ... Ontology as a philosophical viewpoint on life is defined as, "The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence.... That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. ... Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic l...

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Then in 1995, OTA commissioned a series of studies dealing specifically with technology and teacher education. ... Other contractors did case studies of exemplary preservice programs (University of Virginia, University of Wyoming, University of Northern Iowa, and Vanderbilt University) as well as in-service programs in school districts. ... Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and...

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Literature interested Robert so much that when he was fifteen he created a small society among his friends to interpret readings. ... Robert not only had a passion for literature, but also developed an interest for the organ and piano. ... After Schumann finished his high school studies, his mother sent him to the University of Leipzig for law study. ... In 1831 Schumann began to study counterpoint with Heinrich Dorn, conductor of the Leipzig Opera, along with his multiple other studies. ... This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. ...

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Literature interested Robert so much that when he was fifteen he created a small society among his friends to interpret readings. ... Robert not only had a passion for literature, but also developed an interest for the organ and piano. ... After Schumann finished his high school studies, his mother sent him to the University of Leipzig for law study. ... In 1831 Schumann began to study counterpoint with Heinrich Dorn, conductor of the Leipzig Opera, along with his multiple other studies. ... This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. ...

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Likewise, students can now study through e-readers instead of the normal paper textbooks. ... Literature Review It is argued that the full potential of technology integration into the 21st century classroom is yet to be realized (Biancarosa & Griffiths, 2012). ... In their view, Fox-Turnbull and Snape (2011) note that technological activity is influenced by factors such as the social, cultural, and political. ... The authors note that for the effective integration of technology for personalizing learning is what they call intrinsic motivation. ... In the second study, the ...

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The study group was 137 patient, 22 patient excluded from study. ... The study group demonstrated decreased pain scores on first post-operative day, averaging 2.89, the study group length of stay m=3.47 and patient was ambulating on day m=2.6, with assistive devices. ... The results in consistent with other literature review demonstrating use of femoral nerve block, decreases the length of stay, increase mobilization and improves patient pain. ... However, Guirro, Tambara, and Munhoz (2013) notes that there remains no consensus about the most appropriate technique postoperative pain contro...

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One important contribution has been the study of needed research in business education (69). ... The Maxwell study (47) is illustrative. ... At least one timely study leads to this conclusion. ... Bookkeeping and Accounting Harring (25) in a review of research in bookkeeping abstracted 242 studies; he found a marked decline in completion of such studies since the 1935-1959 period. ... A study of prognosis by House (30) illustrated the use of statistical tools of analysis. ...

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Review of Literature Published in 1867, Capital, Volume I serves as the beginning of a trilogy of works that attempts to analyze capitalism through an economic, political, and social lens (Marx and McLellan, 2000). ... However, Marx notes that humans are fallible, and will often place way too much worth or attention, or fetishize, certain commodities for rather arbitrary reasons. Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (...

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Purpose of Study The purpose of this study is to give voice and perspective to women who live with alopecia. ... Women with other diseases associated with alopecia will not be sought for this study as alopecia is the only topic of study in this research. And finally, women who have not been diagnosed with alopecia will be excluded from this study. ... Review of Literature Tucker (2009) defined Alopecia areata as a chronic autoimmune disease which is distinguished by a patchy or abnormal loss of hair. ... The participants within the study had increased levels of depression and anxiety. ...

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The Study of Attention Deficit Disorder And Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity The purpose of this paper is to review the contemporary literature related to the cooccurrence of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), with and without hyperactivity, and specific learning disabilities. ... It has been noted form research studies ten to twenty percent of the school age population is affected. ... Furthermore, any other research that is conducted on children with ADHD is a classification study because of the lack of precision consensual a...

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I start by first introducing the study and some of the generally held public beliefs. ... I then go on to formulate my own hypotheses and analyze them with a data from the American National Election Studies in 2004. ... For example, according to an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly which cites data from the American National Election Studies (NES), "twenty-one percent of Americans displayed a button, bumper sticker or yard sign during the campaign, matching the all-time high set in 1960. ... What may be most important to note, however, is the huge jump in small donors/donations (u...

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Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. ... It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... (Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ... As we have shown, it was praised almost immediately in The New York Times as being "unquestionably one of...

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Then the sea becomes violent, in a pendular and unstable ebb-flow: there's "pebbles which the waves draw back and fling and bring the eternal note of sadness in " (10, 14). ... Response Modernity describes the rise of capitalism, of social study and state regulation, of a belief in progress and productivity, its critics contend that reason and knowledge are merely used to enslave and control people in alternative ways to pre-modern society, and that dominance of reason has not provided meaning to the world or to spiritual life; humanity appears without purpose and is instead merely strivi...

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The purpose of this study is to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from the exposure of soldiers to various wars. ... This hypothesis will be supported by five relevant scholarly studies that are theme related to this issue. ... In reviewing literature, Co-constructing Meaningful Narratives, there is a display of combat veterans in the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. 30 % of members of the armed forces returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with PTSD and another 10 % with depression (DOD Task Force 2007). They also make note that war...

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(Rubin 1983) Hence in Language Planning literature both Language Planning and Language Policy and Planning (LPP) are used interchangeably. ... Typology of Language Planning In language planning literature the types of planning which have assumed greater prominence and attracted wider attention of scholars are status and corpus planning. ... Two more types of language planning added in the literature are acquisition planning (Cooper 1989) and prestige planning (Haarmann 1990). ...

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Unfortunately, there is not much literature on the phenomenon of the homelessness among minors in the U.S., although a small number of studies have examined the incidence of runaway behavior and the characteristics of the young people involved in it. ... However it is important to remember this study was taken quite awhile ago and numbers would increase as the years pass by and the population increases. It is also important to note that not all runaways or homeless youth make use of community services. ... Current literature suggests that the homeless youth population is diverse and that th...

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After giving a brief literature review on the topic, the first part of this study describes the existing energy security issues of the EU due to its heavy reliance on a single source of supply, namely Russia, for its natural gas imports and to a certain extend oil imports. ... Literature Review Whilst studying the literature on the importance of energy security and its impact on EU-Turkey relations it is possible to find some literature that lay a hand on these matters such as Mankoff's work,2 essays produced at the Center for European Reform (CER) and green papers of the European Commi...

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It is well documented through out the literature that: Smoking has been labelled the most important preventable cause of death and disease. ... Background History: The context in which I will be examining the case study is in my role as the Drug and Alcohol Hospital Consultation Liaison Nurse. ... This was primarily because I had reviewed his notes and saw that he was a heavy smoker, and that he had not had a cigarette for approx 24hrs. ... Studies have shown that when a person is experiencing a substance use craving, and brain scans are undertaken, images show changes in the amygdala r...

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This study builds on White-Parks' conclusions by exploring the role of genre manipulation in Sui Sin Far's literary and political innovations. ... Like Howells, Sui Sin Far demands in fiction a truthful depiction of Americans; her rewriting, however, represents an adaptation of mainstream realism because it focuses on Americans who had, before she wrote, little voice in American literature. ... Drawing from elements of realism and sentimental romance, Sui Sin Far uses short stories, articles, and essays to pioneer the act of self-representation for a people who existed in late ninete...

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He goes on to provide a number of case studies in which free association resulted in the manifestation of the mechanisms behind the forgotten words. ... Tauber, et al. discuss this commonality in their study, stating "a growing area of research examines memory for proper names. ... " Often times, as Freud notes, I would attribute myself remembering incorrect names, instead of the correct ones, to a subconscious attempt to trigger the name in my memory, fishing it out of the cobwebs. ... " Another reason why the connection between psychology and psychoanalysis failed was because...

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The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. ... The study attempts to give a general overview of the mass media and communication through a literature review. ... The development of other media – television and newspapers, has only been referred to in passing and could be the subject of another study. ... Communication scholars were being attracted to study development problems in education, agriculture, politics and family planning. ... One of Africa&#x...

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