Censorship - touted by governments around the world as the protection of citizens against inappropriate materials and information. To some censorship is a dirty word, a concept to be discussed and derided because ultimately it is the powerful few who determine what information trickles through and what is filtered out. To others censorship is a fact of life, a rigid control to struggle against in an oppressive civil environment. Which side of the censorship fence you sit on once had...
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Numbers of individuals identified as overweight and obese are escalating at a concerning rates and these circumstances are associated with various psychological and physiological health complications. Obesity is operationally defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of >30.0 kg/height in m2 (Bean, Stewart & Olbrisch. 2008). It is accompanied by increased risk of discrimination in health care, interpersonal relationships, employment, education and media representation. The cause of obesity can range from poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, accessibility of highly processed...
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Suspending young people from school for bad behaviour, rather than keeping them there, could push them into a life of crime, reports Galilee School staff. Numerous studies confirm that juvenile delinquency is related to academic achievement and other school-related variables (Siegel Welsh & Senna, 2006), and Galilee School staff agree that many of the underlying causes of their students’ delinquent behaviour, and the prevention and control of it, is intimately connected with their experience of school; the nature and quality...
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Abstract Shashi Deshpande draws a canvas of the women who are portrayed in a sensitive manner. Her novels present a social world of intricate relationships and age old traditions that creates gaps and disturbances within the family fold. She pays attention to the dilemma of women who struggle to overcome constricting social norms and attempt to redefine their status. The Dark Holds No Terrors reveals the torturing nature of gender discrimination which is inflicted on the girl child who is...
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HIV/AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The HI virus is most commonly passed from one individual to another through unprotected sexual intercourse in which bodily fluids such as semen are freely exchanged between individuals. However, the virus can be transmitted to a person through any contact of bodily fluids that are infected with the HI virus. This includes, but is not limited to, natural child birth in which the virus can be passed from mother to child and...
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Post-conflict development is imperative to rebuild violence-ravaged states, but the degree of success in post-conflict reconstruction programs varies widely, with some efforts leading to further state insecurity and greater conflicts. Development is not as simple as a linear process, and what works in one state could be detrimental to another. For the purpose of this essay, post-conflict development will be redefined as peacebuilding efforts. The main lesson that has been learnt is that peacebuilding requires a deep understanding of three...
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Suicide is a humanitarian crisis; it is the fifth deadly killer of Indigenous people and according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, over the past decade there has been a 21% increase in youth suicide rates. Mental health is a multi-layered issue that requires a holistic tailored response to adequately address the root social, economic and historic causes of suicide in Indigenous communities. It is alarming to think about the suicide of a young adult who still has much to...
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Arterial blood gas test (ABG) is one of the most common standard diagnostic tools that is used to measure important physiological components, such as arterial blood oxygen tension, arterial carbon dioxide tension, and the blood’s pH level. Therefore, arterial blood gases give us easy accessibility to understand how well a patient’s acid-base balance functions, how well gas is being exchanged, and the performance status of ventilation. Furthermore, it gives physicians clues about the integrity of the respiratory system and metabolic...
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I am writing this paper over the ethical dilemma of chemical impaired nurses on duty. This subject is an ongoing problem is the nursing profession today that can and has changed a patient’s quality of life, due to mistakes made by a nurse while under the influence. Nurses have access to countless amounts of medications and are trusted to disperse them accordingly. When a nurse violates this code, they are not only taking away from the hospital, but they are...
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There are powerful dictators throughout history for example Adolf Hitler who used his social power with violence, Julius Caesar who broke rules to gain all power for himself and Gaius Cassius who uses his manipulation to persuade people to follow his orders. All those dictators who rose to gain social power resembles the main antagonist from William Golding’s 1954 novel “Lord of the flies ''. In this paper were closing in a deeper understanding on Golding’s demonstration of gaining social...
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Intro A popular childhood disorder becoming increasingly more accepted and acknowledged in society is down syndrome. In 2019, there was roughly a recorded case of seven thousand Irish people diagnosed with down syndrome (downsyndrome.ie, 2013). On a public health system term (HSE.ie, 2018) they state that one of every 550 newborns can be affected by down syndrome. The main theme of this assignment will focus around this increasingly more common childhood disorder such as intellectual disability (ID), its causes, symptoms...
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Introduction The term affordance was introduced by the ecological psychologist James Gibson (1979) to describe the interactions between an actor and an object as action possibilities with respect to the actor. Nowadays, affordance-based design (ABD) is widely utilized to improve usability, minimize human errors and decrease their associated risks (Maier & Faded, 2009). The applications are in the fields of forensic science (Hartman, Whetsel Borzendowski, & Campbell, 2019), user interface design, artificial intelligence (Mi, Tang, Deng, Görner, & Zhang, 2019),...
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Understanding Substance Abuse and Addiction There is an increasing evidence that legalization of illicit drugs is essential to lessen the danger of substance abuse. Substance abuse is a mental health disorder that includes physical, mental and spiritual problem or worse could also lead to death if left untreated. There are several state or conditions an individual could experience while taking drugs such as addiction, dependence, tolerance and withdrawal. The term addiction is complex, and the meaning can vary according to...
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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne created a story about a woman who was to endure the disgrace of the scarlet letter “A” that sewed on her garments as a symbol of her adultery. This character's name is Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne created this story after he was fired from his job working in the Custom House in Salem. Hawthorne is from a strong Puritan background, but some say he is canonized as a feminists writer. Even though Hawthorne originated...
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It is one of the ironies where it can shatter the victim and most people do not even see it as a crime. Domestic violence is not only physical injustice towards the victim in a relationship but it is the mental pressure as well. Basically, it is when one partner tries to gain control and power over the other in a relationship (Smith and Segal, 2019). The issues resulting from domestic violence which will be discussed in this report are...
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“And according to the law I was damned. I had no money, I was weak, I was ugly, I was unpopular, I had a chronic cough, I was cowardly, I smelt…..but a child’s belief in its own short comings is not much influenced by the facts…..I had no other authority to refer to….but this sense of guilt and inevitable failure was balanced by something else: that is, the instinct to survive”, ( Orwell, 1947, p.43). The aim of this essay...
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Shakespeare has used deception throughout the vast majority of his work. In the well-known comedy Twelfth Night, Viola deceives everyone including her own family into thinking that she is a man named Cesario by changing how she dresses, acts and talks, all to benefit herself. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Juliet secretly marries Romeo whom she truly loves and then fakes her death so that she never has to marry the other man who she was expected to marry,...
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Killing another human being is arguably the most cruel and unforgiving crime a person could commit, especially when they plan and execute multiple elaborate murders. When murders are planned out, and the killing continues, a serial killer is born. There are four different types of serial killers. Those who crave power and control, those who are compelled to kill, those who feel the need to kill, and those who kill for pleasure (Author Jennifer Chase). Ed Gein, American alleged serial...
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Introduction to Marcel Petiot: France's Infamous Doctor of Death Serial killers have been around for thousands of years, as far back as ancient Rome. However, Herman Webster Mudgett, also known as H.H. Holmes, was believed to have been early America’s first serial killer. This event dates all the way back to 1861-1896. The definition of a serial killer according to the FBI is someone who commits at least 3 murders for over a month and has “cooling off” periods where...
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Introduction to Gary Ridgway: The Serial Killer Profile A serial killer is often thought of as someone “who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.” “Serial killers tend to be white, heterosexual males in their twenties or thirties who are sexually dysfunctional and have low self-esteem.” The requirement to be considered a serial killer is to have killed more than one person. Taking one’s life is a huge crime...
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To properly being able to discuss this essay in-depth, it's necessary to understand first what the term serial killer means. The proper definition of a serial killer is the illicit murder of at least two victims or more committed by the same person, but in different times and places. This term, it's often been confused and it's hard to distinguish with the term mass murder, which is defined as murders that took place at the same time and place committed...
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Introduction Anxiety is an unpleasant state of high arousal which prevents the sufferer from relaxing and makes it very difficult for them to experience any positive emotion. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), anxiety disorders include: separation anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder and selective mutism (BHATT, 2019). Severity of anxiety disorders is often overseen by the public. For instance, social anxiety is more...
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Middle class women were brought up to “be pure and innocent, tender and sexually undemanding, submissive and obedient” to fit the glorified “angel in the House” (Thackeray’s The Angel in the House). Women were not expected to express opinions of their own outside a very limited range of subjects, and certainly not be on a quest for own identity and aim to become independent such as the protagonist in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. To some critics it was inappropriate for...
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Introduction The term ‘Artificial Intelligence was first coined in 1956 by prominent computer and cognitive scientist John McCarthy, then a young Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, when he invited a group of academics from various disciplines including, but not limited to, language simulation, neuron nets, and complexity theory, to a conference entitled the ‘Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence’ which is widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. At that time,...
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Foucault begins a discussion on the history of sexuality by accusing our societies of hypocrisy and silence about sexuality and says that we are still under the Victorian rule in this Aspect. Then, he makes a simple comparison to sexual discourse in the early seventeenth century and after the appearance of the bourgeoisie. In this comparison, Foucault says that during the seventeenth century, the discourse on sexuality was freer and there was no strictness and reservation compared to the nineteenth...
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Financial reporting has seen great advancements since its very conception as societies trusted form of corporate communication. Disclosures required within sets of financial accounts is an area which has attracted many different viewpoints for a number of years. Some argue that sets of accounts provide all the essential information in one central place, allowing comparisons to be made and vigorous calculations to be carried out. On the other hand the vast majority are of the mindset that all information provided...
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Chapter I Introduction 1.1. Background of the study Before proposing this research, preliminary research was conducted by the researcher towards varsity students of EFL in Indonesia University of Education. Respondents of this research were English Education students who are in their senior year, three respondents from each of two classes were chosen randomly, therefore six senior varsity students of English Education major participated in the preliminary research. From the preliminary research, it was found that five students among six who...
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Introduction This report will aim to find a suitable sentence for Mr S by looking at different sentences such as community sentencing and restorative justice to see which would be more appropriate to help rehabilitate Mr S into society and prevent potential future offences. Restorative Justice The aim of Restorative Justice is to get the offender and victim to meet and address the harm and trauma that has been caused to a victim to attempt to repair the victims harm...
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Both Goldman and Du Bois have been notorious in transforming political assumptions as well as being pivotal figures in shaping history and tradition. With the same goal of emancipation, it is evident that Goldman and Du Bois identify issues in society that continue to persist as major concerns in the emerging new world order. This essay will argue that there are many similarities between Goldman and Du Bois that corroborate their ideas, but the means of enacting this complicates their...
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“Which global issues are causing communities to change?” I. Introduction “You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it,” said Grace Lee Boggs (Boggs, 2007). Nowadays, there are innumerable global issues that the international communities are now facing up included conflict in religion, political dissent, overpopulation and lack of education. More than that, most of the issues have heavily influenced the community which creates a...
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