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    Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is the most notorious but most definitely not the only. Others such as the Syrian Genocide are great examples of our past being recreated‚ people were killed‚ others lost and a large portion forced to move from the comfort of their homes to live in refugee camps or to try to find their way out of the country. In the text it states “Syria has cost the lives of more

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    eating offers an easy way out. Why bother studying hard and doing all those term papers by yourself if you can use somebody else’s work? Would you agree that expediency is a major reason for cheating? Expediency might be one reason for cheating‚ but I’m not sure its the main reason. In fact‚ strangely‚ young people will sometimes go to greater lengths to cheat than to study for a test. Occasionally‚ this is due to boredom. Studies indicate that there is a high correlation between certain pedagogical

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    Jagdeep Sahota Professor Bollinger English W131 19 March 2013 Paper 3 Obsession with McCadless According to author Jon Krakauer in his book Into the Wild‚ he details the last moments of Chris McCadless’ life: “In April 22‚ a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness.” (Krakauer I). Chris gave up all his savings to charity‚ burned his money‚ abandoned his truck and changed his name to Alex Supertramp‚ who was found four months later in a broken

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    One of the key parts of westward expansion in the US was The Homestead Act that was implemented on January 1st‚ 1863. This act stated that men and women (who were not married) and 21 or older could apply for up to 160 acres of land in the west. The requirement was that they must live on the land for 5 years and “improve upon the land”. If they did this then the land would become theirs for $10. The Homestead Act favored white homesteaders and they were able to acquire over 285 million acres of land

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    W hy do men tend to fare better in competitive environments than women do? It is a question researchers have long pondered. More than a decade ago‚ two economists —Claudia Goldin of Harvard and Cecilia Rouse of Princeton—found sex-based discrimination in the hiring of orchestra musicians. Beginning in the 1970s‚ many orchestras in the United States‚ hoping to remedy a dearth of women in their ranks‚ began conducting blind auditions. Musicians performed behind a screen so the selection

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    Unintended Consequences from Failure In the article “Can You Handle Failure?” Ben Dattner and Robert Hogan (2011) reflect on data collected from over several hundred thousand managers to determine how failure will affect one’s behavior and surroundings in the workplace. While everyone handles failure differently‚ Dattner and Hogan (2011) believe many managers perceive and react to failure inappropriately. Dysfunctional reactions to failure from managers will cause unintended consequences which will

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    (Disclaimer letter) 8. Appendix 3 (Questionnaire) 9. Bibliography 1. Aims/Objectives The aim of this research project is to explore‚ how effective professionals providing health programs to overcome cultural tradition‚ such as Female Genital Mutilation. In recent times the number of FGM victims rose. Birmingham and Manchester have the highest relevance of FGM outside of London‚ The Guardian (2015). 1.2 This research project will focus on existing health programs to identify

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    Lombroso’s general theory suggested that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies. He postulated that criminals represented a reversion to a primitive or subhuman type of man characterized by physical features reminiscent of apes‚ lower primates‚ and early man and to some extent preserved‚ he said‚ in modern "savages." The behavior of these biological "throwbacks" will inevitably be contrary to the rules and expectations of modern civilized society. Through years

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    Mystery of the Female Orgasm Review of Puts et al. (2012)‚ Why Women Have Orgasms: An Evolutionary Analysis. Introduction One of the greatest mysteries in human biology is that of the female orgasm; and like any mystery‚ humans want to solve it. However‚ what happens if there is nothing to solve? Some scientists believe that the female orgasm has a purpose‚ that is‚ it evolved for some adaptive function. Other scientists stress that there does not need to be a purpose to the female orgasm; it

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    that of female body modification‚ or very commonly known as female circumcision. To those brought up being taught that women should always be seen as objects that should not be harmed‚ female genital mutilation seems a practice too vile to even consider. Many have argued that “FGM has disastrous health effects‚ combined with the social injustices it perpetuates constitute a barrier to the overall African development” (Shweder) and that it was “devised [as a] brutal means… to curb female sexual desire

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