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Research and Telehealth

Written around December 2000 For psychologists, direct patient care involves a number of activities including assessment, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, patient education, case management, and, increasingly, medication support. Increasingly, this work is conducted using telecommunications devices such as telephones, electronic mail (e-mail), or even video teleconference equipment. The literature on “telehealth” is growing rapidly, doubling approximately [...]

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Psychometrics Class

Written around December 2000 – complete garbage My group and I designed a test titled “So you think you’re a world traveler?” It was designed to measure a person’s world knowledge. In theory, it can be used to job screen a person for a social secretary position. The test measures whether a person has well-rounded [...]

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Genetic Factors in Nicotine Addiction

Written around November of 2000 I do not understand the mechanisms of addiction very well. I have been exposed to the “runner’s high” during competitive swimming, and while enjoying it, it didn’t move me on any level. Nicotine seems to have no affect on me, and alcohol is something that I enjoy at many occasions, [...]

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Effects of the Internet on mental health

Written around October of 2000 I have been using the Internet for almost ten years now. I have made many friends over the net, and actually do go out with them on a regular basis. I make my money for going to the movies from designing web sites, rather than serving food at the local [...]

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The Waste Land Water Symbolism

Completed somewhere around May 2001 – was published, so don’t copy too closely T.S. Eliot is one of the most studied poets of today (Murphy 250). His poetry is masterfully planned and executed, filled with clever references and multiple meanings. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 “for his outstanding, pioneering contribution [...]

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The Waste Land Water Paper Outline

Written as a planning tool for the paper I’ll post on Monday – Written April 2001 Eliot purposefully employs an ambiguous water motif throughout the poem to make points about nature, culture, religion and life in general and how modern man in his reactions to each has become a “wasteland”, and needs to be reborn.

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The White Tribe of Africa Speech

Speech Written in June 2002 Introduction Just before I immigrated to the United States, I saw a headline in the Johannesburg Star which read “Death Rate to Exceed Birth Rate by 2003”. Now for a European country, this might not seem so unusual, but this was Africa. It took a few days for the headline [...]

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Nintendo Neurosis

Written around October 2000 One of the most popular past times of my peer group is killing each other. Achieved through Tekken 3, Mortal Combat 4 and Quake 3: with all the blood and gore brought to us by the makers of the Sony Playstation and a bunch of networked computers. We play the games [...]

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Glyn Davies

Written in February of 2002 about my Grandfather In the year 2002, is it possible to have had a family history of four generations in IT? I would think it would be rare, but not impossible. As a 21 year old web and graphic designer, computer player and full time geek, I am one of [...]

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Chrysanthemum Symbolism

Written, very poorly, in March of 2001… I think I must have been drunk, because this is terrible. John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” is a short story about a farmer’s wife, Elisa, who feels trapped in her daily existence, which centers on the role of the women of her time. She lives a restricted life, lightened [...]

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