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    5 Important things you need to know about Conversion Optimization Web searchers can flock to your website time and time again. But, if they don’t actually become customers, there is really no point in the process. Conversion optimization is all about making potential customers into long-term clients. It is powerful and effective. However, getting it right is sometimes difficult. The best way for marketers to make sure visitors convert into customers is for them to develop a plan. With this plan,

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    The Legality of Conversion Therapy The issues surrounding sexuality and gender nonconforming individuals in the United States have played an increasingly large role in modern politics since the mid-20th century. These issues, commonly referred to LGBT rights, directly affect the lives of a vast number of American citizens and, as such, any legislation addressing these issues is public policy. The growing demand for equality among the LGBT community has resulted in a number of Supreme Court cases

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    start to think of the effects of correcting or convert someone’s behavior to a more “favorable” one. This idea is present in today’s society and to better understand this believe and practice one will have to explore the psychology of conversion therapy. Conversion Therapy or reparative therapy is a “range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression” (Human Rights Campaign). This defines what Hard Rock experiences

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    Conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, or Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) has a troubled history within the United States and abroad. Conversion therapy is the use of a variety of means to attempt to change an individual’s sexual or gender orientation. Current practices include inducing vomiting or paralysis while showing a subject homoerotic images, having a subject snap a rubber band on their wrist whenever they have certain thoughts, or using tactics to create shame or

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    Speech Title: “” Topic: Conversion therapy General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: I want the audience to avoid organizations that support the use of conversion therapy and to understand the pseudoscientific and harmful nature of such a practice. Thesis: Conversion therapy receives little support from the American psychiatric community due to a lack of evidence confirming its supposed effectivity and the measurable damage it causes to the individuals subjected to its outdated practices. Action

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    Conversion therapy is the conversion of a person’s homosexual or bisexual gender to heterosexual gender. It is a delicate process, if tempered with it can completely destroy the person, like if a dandelion gets blown away, it breaks into thousands of pieces. Kirk Murphy a 5 year old boy favored feminine behavior over masculine behavior. Psychologist George Rekers treated the boy by rewarding him when he acted masculine and punished him when he acted feministically. The psychologist claimed this

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    was declassified as a mental disorder. It would be assumed that treatments for to change homosexuality would end. However, conversion therapy is still being used today, even our future Vice President, Mike Pence, believes in such treatment. That alone is a huge threat to people of the LGBTQ+ community. Conversion therapy is affecting the LGBTQ+ community greatly. Conversion therapy can be defined as “psychological interventions, from behavioral methods to psychoanalytic approaches” to change a person’s

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    Even though I grew up in an area that embraced the LGBT community, I was not educated about the inhumane methods used for conversion therapy. I was only knowledgeable about religious conversion therapy and found the other methods shocking as well. I do know that religious conversion therapy is still a method used today. There were a couple individuals at my high school that would try to get members of the school’s lesbian and gay club to attend church with them. The conversation always started off

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    either politically or religiously. In Constantine's conversion to Christianity in the 3rd century, was he persuade by someone or did he just happened to convert unpersuasive? Or in Agathangelos story, History of the Armenians, was Trdat persuaded by Gregory or were there other factors that persuaded Trdat to convert? In my research I will compare and contrast which stories were similar, which were different, and how gender even played a role in conversion. In addition I will include how are they portrayed

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    Conversion to Christianity in Medieval Iberia invoked ambivalent feelings among Christians at the time. Christians in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries intended to convert Jews and Muslims through kind words and religious teachings from the Bible. This idea of peaceful conversion, nevertheless, evolved and Christians began converting non-believers through violence and compulsion. Also, even after individuals were converted, Christians did not always fully trust their motivations, and believed

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