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Preparatory General Chemistry: Frameworks for Success
Author(s): KARI STONE, CAROL FENDRICK, SARAH SHANER
Preparatory General Chemistry: Framework for Success is designed to provide college students who are not yet ready for general chemistry with the skills, content, and resources that are proven effective for achieving success in college chemistry courses. This workbook takes students step-by-step in ...
Mexican American Men, Machismo, and Mental Health: Cultural Shifts in Perceptions of Depression
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Abstract Floyd, a middle-class husband and father of two college-age children, enjoyed a cutting-edge career in computer technology before abruptly facing early retirement due to chronic back problems. Suddenly confronted with a lifestyle of restrictions, an opposite reality from his lifelong wor...
Biochemistry Lab Manual
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Advice Response Theory: Understanding Responses to Health Advice
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Sample No matter how good your life is, there are always hassles, stresses, and problems that arise…and decisions to be made about how to address them. For example, as a semester comes to an end, you might need to make plans for holiday travel, choose a place to live for the next semester or scho...
Humor and Message Production
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Sample If laughter is the best medicine, then we ought to devote as much attention to the doctors and pharmacists of wit as we do to the ailments that give rise to the prescription. Interest in the sense of humor is longstanding, and investigations vis-à-vis the field of communication are no exce...
Humor in Intercultural Interactions: Challenges and Pitfalls
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Sample Teacher, academic, and humorist Leo Rosten wrote, “Humor is the affectionate communication of insight” (as cited in Eckhardt, 1992). While perspectives differ on humor’s use for affiliative purposes, an analysis of humor in intercultural conversations demonstrates the intricacies of how th...
When Patient Becomes Caregiver: One Couple, Two Cases of Advanced Cancer
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Abstract This project extends family communication patterns theory to a caregiver typology and applies the typology to the case of a husband and wife, both afflicted with stage IV cancer (ovarian and prostate). The case of Vivian and Harold identifies the essential characteristics of the Manager ...
Thinking About Interpersonal Relationships and Social Penetration Theory: Is It the Same for Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual People?
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Abstract Although no theory can eliminate every awkward moment, the theory that is the topic of this chapter, social penetration theory, can help to explain why what happened on the date described at the beginning of this chapter was so uncomfortable. Moreover, the theory helps to predict the out...