approaches are‚ Human Behavioral Ecology‚ Evolutionary Psychology‚ Dual Inheritance Theory‚ and Memetics. Human Behavioral Ecology is the study of behavior from ecological and evolutionary perspectives with the goal of linking ecological factors and adaptive behavior. (Krebs and Davies 1997). Evolutionary Psychology is understanding the evolution of psychological mechanisms resulting in human behavior. Dual Inheritance Theory holds the basal perspectives that culture is evolutionarily important‚ that culture
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Reading Journal on the Excerpt from Karen Armstrong’s Autobiography. The author is very expressive of her feelings‚ and I believe it is these feelings that she wants to let out to the world in her autobiography‚ there is not one point but an entire phase in life that she expresses in her writing. The feelings and mind-set of one lost‚ looking for an identity to fit into; can be a point she is trying to convey but then again‚ there is a lot of flow in her words that makes this point
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The section I chose to reflect on is “Heterosexuality and Feminist Theory” by Christine Overall. This certain reading refers to the class discussion of Sept. 15‚ 2011 and also in the class of Sept. 20‚ 2011. The main idea of this very serious‚ but contemporary reading was heterosexuality; it built off the subject into why‚ who‚ and how into great detail. To summarize the whole reading in to one statement of my own is going to be hard since Ms. Overall did it so well. Heterosexually is the norm as
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Tarek Taji - 41040 POL 201 – sec.2 Introduction to Political Science Feb 18th /2013 Summary of Rousseau’s Book “On the Social Contract” book 1. “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau’s words that says much about the concept of the Social Contract and other main concepts in life. Here‚ he is trying to raise a question if the “governing authorities” whether support the freedom of people or are they the “chains” over people’s
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The Social Identity Theory addresses phenomena such as prejudice‚ discrimination‚ intergroup conflict and stereotyping in terms of personality or interpersonal interactions. Tajfel and Turner (1979) suggested that the differentiation of two groups was enough for the emergence of prejudice. Stereotyping is seen as unfair generalisations about members of a group. It is viewed as problematic and resistent to change. Stereotypes are cognitive representations of how members of a group are similar to one
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Bowlby’s career started off in the medical direction as he was following in his surgeon father’s footsteps. Bowlby studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences at Trinity College‚ Cambridge‚ winning prizes for outstanding intellectual performance. After Cambridge‚ he worked with maladjusted and delinquent children until‚ at the age of twenty-two‚ he enrolled at University College Hospital in London. At twenty-six‚ he qualified in medicine. While still in medical school‚ he enrolled himself in the
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Myranda Ramirez Prof. Matthew Antonio February 12‚ 2014 Comp 150 Annotated Bibliography Assignment Holland‚ Karen. "What We Can Learn from Sitcom Relationships." Marriage Counseling Denver. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. This conversational article written by Karen Holland is one that gives an opinion based piece that describes the relationships of a specific T.V. sitcom and how we can learn from that sitcom as well as others. The specific sitcom specified is titled Modern Family‚ I which the
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Since the creation of religion‚ there has always been a debate to whether or not religion is the main cause of conflicts throughout history. In Karen Armstrong’s book “Fields of Blood”‚ she argues that people use religion as an excuse for the cause of wars and ignore all other aspects. Karen Armstrong is correct. Throughout history‚ there were many wars and conflicts that weren’t caused by religion yet many leaders used the blame of religion to their advantage to conceal their true intentions. Wars
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The book Ulysses S. Grant‚ Politician was written by the author William B. Hesseltine. William B. Hesseltine was born on February 21‚ 1902 in Brucetown‚ Virginia and died in 1963. He was remembered mostly for his work on the American Civil war‚ the Reconstruction Era‚ the American South‚ and the mid-19th century United States history. Also‚ he had recognition for the 1960 President of the Southern Historical Association. He was assisted greatly by his wife Katherine Hesseltine‚ who gave valuable
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In “Mental Causation‚” Karen Bennett discusses the overdetermination argument associated with the exclusion problem. Even if one assumes that causal power can be attributed to the mental‚ it is unclear that mental causation contributes anything meaningful to the explanation of an effect and does not merely overdetermine it‚ since the effect could be given a purely physical explanation (Kim 325). Some philosophers have bitten the bullet and claimed that mental causation is‚ in fact‚ comparable to
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