Thousands of people are assaulted in Australia each year. The facts and figures regarding these crimes are commonly available but the full story regarding violence is complex and wide-reaching. There is not enough room here to discuss all aspects of…
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The teacher-student relationship is one that is perhaps second only to the parent-child relationship in terms of a young person’s development. It’s only natural then that a teacher, a sort of pseudo-parental figure and a legal guardian of students (in…
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Life is change. It begins with change as a single sperm among millions fertilizes an egg, creating an embryo that develops into fetus. We are born and we grow, changing all the while, and despite struggles to the contrary, life…
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Real assertiveness is: EXPRESSING what you want or believe so that it is CLEARLY understood by others. ACHIEVING what you want from someone, in a LEGITIMATE WAY. NOT BEING PERSUADED to do something you do not want to do. DOING…
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Ever heard the banging on thunder and seen the flashes of lightening furiously causing commotion outside your window? Of course you have! It is not always as innocent as just another storm though. For some it causes a great deal…
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I find myself happy most of the time. I am in no way in an ideal situation, as other people would think. I am divorced, recently moved back in with my parents to start over, single father of two boys. But…
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Hans Eysenck was a research psychologist and temperament theorist. He used factor analysis techniques to develop theories of temperament – that part of the personality we are born with. His original work produced a set of two temperament distinctions, introversion…
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The idea has been proposed to me that love is an addiction. The argument is that love, like any other drug, is not desired so strongly until it is encountered . . . experienced. Before that it seems that we…
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Do you think that your intelligence exists solely within the confines of your cranium? Do you think that your mind is a separate entity from your body and from the rest of the world? Well, if this is the case,…
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Skulls are one of humanity’s most reoccurring symbol of death, and a very powerful icon in the visual realm of cultures all over the world. Thirteen crystal skulls of seemingly ancient origin have been discovered in parts of Mexico, Central…
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