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    During the Battle of Yorktown the Americans and French used three different types of artillery which where categorized as howitzers, cannons, and mortars. Each piece of artillery had a different use or propose during the battle. Since the artillery was not as precise as it is today, the success of the artillery fell upon the expertise and talent of the gun crews. Most crews where a six man team made up of a Gun Commander, Firer, Vent Tender, Ram and Sponge, Worm and Loader, Powder Handler,…

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    The Yakuza Paper

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    themselves for anything outside themselves.” A significant point Arai makes is the realities Japan was facing at the time: “During the later half of the twentieth century, the seemingly unanimous conclusion across the academy…the country’s unparalleled trajectory was due to the resilience of it’s cultural repository.” Arai means to say that the horrific-looking introduced children are symbolic for the country’s school system closely going in tow with Japan’s pushing for parity with western…

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    will posit that the state of nature is the “best point of departure” for political theory because it is able to work from an original and current assumption that allows for flexibility in the workings of a state rather than fixing upon a straight trajectory, like that of real history, and able to provide…

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    The study looks at whether there are “significant” individual differences between the trajectories of two major personality traits among a relatively large sample of males. In the study, the subject group had consisted of 1,663 men ranging between the ages of 43 to 91. Extroversion and neuroticism data for the study had consisted primarily of…

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    Introduction Cognitive psychologists want to know what mechanisms move children forward from one knowledge state to a more adult-like knowledge state. There is one mechanism that has been explored, which is children’s ability to ask questions to gather the information they need to achieve a more adult-like knowledge state. Question asking has always been an important source for children to seek out information. For younger children who do not yet possess ability to ask questions verbally, they…

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    players do not wear protective gear because the chances of getting hit with the ball are low. Mr. Embry’s did not assume a higher risk when he decided to retrieve the ball. Ms. Weiss, the instructor, told Mr. Mitchell that he should alert his playing partners that he had a shanking problem so they should remain behind him while he was hitting the ball. Also, Mitchell did not inform the group that he intended to hit a second ball from a tee box. These rules are there to prevent players from…

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    speakers of English by using a forced choice question instrument beside corpus data as reference. As it is clear from the abstract, the data analysis of this paper uncovers many leading findings. One of the findings is the general synonym acquisition trajectory. Which is…

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    Quinlan Parenting

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    respond by adjusting their behaviors. If not able to reduce or eliminate these risk the parents may focus more on mating rather than parenting. Shifting parental efforts may lead to more offspring and a low-intensity childcare creating a potential trajectory for the child or children to be geared in the direction of risky behaviors in uncertain environments. This behavior doesn’t just fade away easily as the child grows up but such experiences can be good indicators of predicted adult…

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    Effective CBT Programs

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    Our evidence suggests that school-based programs may be effective in reducing recivism rates, but only if the programs are implemented early on. This time sensitivity shows just how critical rehabilitation promptly after an offence is. Program type also seems to play an important role in reducing recidivism rate with a general trend showing that CBT programs are much more effective than the behavior therapy counterpart. Findings from Landenberger (2005) outline that CBT programs that focus on…

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    Life Course Perspective

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    Introduction Teen pregnancy has both short and long-term consequences, thus, having profound effects on the life trajectories of teen mothers and their babies (Langille, 2007). Given the societal impact and consequences of teen pregnancy on both the mother and child, public health efforts and research have been directed to designing and implementing evidence-based interventions that address this problem. (Centres for Disease Control [CDC], 2017) Teen Pregnancy: Life Course Perspective The life…

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