Unit 2‚ Topic 1: Extreme Weather (Unit 2 is 40% total AS marks‚ 20% total GCE marks) Extreme Weather includes a range of phenomena that involve extremes of temperature‚ precipitation‚ wind and atmospheric pressure. They in turn develop from a variety of meteorological conditions. This topic looks at how extreme weather events lead to immediate‚ subsequent and longer term hazards. Storms‚ river floods and drought clearly illustrate the environmental‚ social and economic impacts of extreme weather
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Industrial revolution 5 changes New form of energy Centralization of work in factories Mass production Specialized division of labor Wage labor Economic Systems • Capitalist Private ownership of property Pursuit of personal profit Free competition and consumer choice a) Welfare Capitalism combines a mostly market-based economy with extensive social welfare to provide for basic needs. b) State Capitalism: companies are privately owned but co-operate closely with the government
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-Intimacy- Closeness between two people Four key features of intimacy -Love and/or affection ‚ Personal validation‚ trust and Self-disclosure -Factors affecting commitment- The balance of costs and benefits‚ Normative inputs‚ structural constraints Benefits get from intimate relationships Central feature of romantic love Companionate love- warm and tender affection we feel for close others. It includes frienships‚ shared interests and activities‚ and companionships. May lack sexual attraction
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reaction paper on: * “Signs of truth” by Michael Gilsenan‚ * “Dreams that matter” by Amira Mittermair * “An Enchanted modern” by Lara Deeb Does modernity lead to the decline of religion? Is religion anti-modern? Are religion and modernity contradictory? Is religion irrational? These are the main questions raised by the three readings: “Signs of truth” by Michael Gilsenan‚ “Dreams that matter” by Amira Mittermair and “An Enchanted modern” by Lara Deeb. The first and second
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Scothechia Mighty ID# 0338956 PSY-352-OL009 Module 2 Define the terms sex‚ gender‚ and gender socialization. We can use the term sex and gender interchangeable. This idea has become so common‚ particularly in western societies where being liberal is common in society and it is rarely questioned. Even though physical speaking sex and gender are different; gender is no longer connected to one’s physical anatomy. Sex is biological and includes physical attributes such as sex chromosomes
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PBH 324 HOMELESSNESS: Social and Health Perspectives 3 credits Homelessness is a topic I can relate to very well‚ coming from a poor background and living from paycheck to paycheck has caused me to be out of residences for over ten months.It was very hard to comprehend‚ living under a hotel with my two daughters taught me to seek out and learn what causes homelessness.Having a background of being a nurse it was hard for me to live without a roof over my head.My oldest daughter was pregnant at
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Assess the Marxist view that the main role of the family is to serve the interests of Capitalism. It can be said that the main role of the family is to serve the interest of Capitalism‚ which is the economic system that we live in today where the bourgeoisie own the means of production and people are motivated by profit and money. One perspective to support this view is the Marxist approach; they believe the main role of the family is to serve the needs of capitalism by keeping the bourgeoisie
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S-A9-1705-4 Crazy (HUANG JIN YUAN) 3. What is “body art”? What forms of body art are present in your home place (Macau or China)? What are some of the possible uses and meanings of this form of expression as you understand them? Briefly discuss at least one form of body art‚ making connections between what you observe and what you learned from this chapter in Nanda and Warms. First‚ I want to introduce the definition of “body art”. According to Nanda and Warms‚ body art means that making
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PROJECT PROPOSAL Name: Institution: Instructor: Date: Table of contents Table of contents 2 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Overview Summary 3 1.3 Background of the study 4 1.4 Rationale of the project 5 1.5 Aims of the study 5 1.6 Objectives of the Research 6 1.7 Research methods 6 Project Title: PARENTAL SUBSTANCE MISUSE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE IMPACT OF SUBSTANCE MISUSE ON CHILDREN 1.1 Introduction The major goal of this assignment is to
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1. Why are nuclear wastes at times said to be a problem which is too complicated to solve? Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material. Radioactive wastes are usually by-products of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology‚ such as research and medicine. Radioactive waste is hazardous to most forms of life and the environment‚ and is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment. Radioactivity
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