Major Perspectives: Biological: Neuroscience- How body & brain enable emotions‚ memories‚ & sensory experiences Evolutionary- how natural selection of traits has promoted survival of genes Behavioral Genetics- How our genes & environment influence our individual differences Psychodynamic: How behavior springs from unconscious drives & conflicts Behavioral: How we learn observable responses Cognitive: How we encode‚ process‚ store‚ & retrieve info Social-Cultural: How behavior & thinking vary
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Euthanasia – Proxy Decisions Means beautiful death The termination of a beings life on compassionate grounds Candidates for euthanasia are terminally ill with death being imminent that face uncontrollable pain and suffering. Typical criteria for euthanasia What are the procedures? Are they morally equivalent? (deontological issue) If not‚ why not? Passive vs. Active Euthanasia 1. Cause of death 2. Manner of death 3. Procedure 4. Perceived moral status 5. Justification for perceived moral
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New England 1. Massachusetts * 1620- Plymouth is founded. 120 people came to Plymouth. When founded‚ ½ of the 120 settlers signed the Mayflower Compact. People who convinced them to sign it were Miles Standish and William Bradford [governor of Plymouth]. Later‚ Plymouth turned into the Massachusetts Bay Colony (M.B.C) * 1629- M.B.C. formed. Goverener was John Winthrop. He called his colony a “city upon a hill” because he wanted it to rise above other cities. 3 important industries were
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Limited Liability: where shareholders‚ and or stakeholders are only liable for assets already invested. Characteristics of Companies: - Regulated by Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)‚ which is enforceable by ASIC. - Considered a legal person before the law - Minimum of one member S.114 - A company has the legal capacity and powers of an individual both in and outside this jurisdiction. A company also has the powers of a body corporate. . . . “ S.124 - “The business of a company is to be managed
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Middle Palaeolithic Stone Tools Stone tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Palaeolithic were manufactured using prepared core technology‚ a technique in which whoever made the tools carefully shaped the core to control the form of the flakes produced. François Bordes Divided the stratigraphic sequence into dozens of well defined layers Created a typology of tools and counted how many of each were found at eac particular level‚ thus being able to quantify the totality of the tools
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Environmental Biotechnology Biogeochemical Cycling The Carbon Cycle Why is carbon so important. BIOT6008 Environmental Biotechnology Lecture 3 Environmental Biotechnology Sources of Carbon The Earth’s Crust: The largest amount of carbon on Earth is stored in sedimentary rocks. Oceans: most in the form of dissolved inorganic carbon stored at great depths. A much smaller amount of carbon is located near the surface. Atmosphere: Mostly in the form of CO2. This carbon is of vital
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AP10005 Physics I Tutorial 7 (Chapters 17‚ 18) 1. (17P11) A flower pot is knocked off a window ledge from a height d = 20.0 m above the sidewalk as shown in the figure below. It falls toward an unsuspecting man of height h =1.75 m who is standing below. Assume the man requires a time interval of Δt = 0.300 s to respond to the warning. How close to the sidewalk can the flower pot fall before it is too late for a warning shouted from the balcony to reach the man in time? 2. (17P15)
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1. Why does Andrew Jackson oppose recharter of the second Bank of the United States? He believes that the rich people of America have too much power within the government because of the Bank of the United States. He thinks that abolishing this Bank will create less of a separation between rich and poor. 2. What positive functions were served by the bank? What were some of the bank’s negative consequences? It is a fiscally responsible way to manage the United State’s money. It regulated currency
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Sports Policy And The Sports Environment Rules Of Sports And Activities: • Player safety must be the highest priority and good sportsmanship and fair play should be emphasised. • Rules are designed to: - assist the flow of play - protect participants from injury (collision sports increase potential injury) - participants are aware of the boundaries/limitations of the game/activity (fairness) penalties‚ removal from field‚ fines. • Injury has the potential to cause temporary and even permanent
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The British Film Industry‚ Then and Now As well as considering the similarities and differences between the British Film industry during the 1940’s and the British Film industry today‚ there are two other important issues to consider when preparing for the topic. First‚ as has already been indicated in the section on Hollywood in this chapter‚ you will need to consider those factors and features that are the same or different between the British and Hollywood industries. The second question to consider
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