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    you have when you first look upon your new born child‚ the radiant warmth in your face when you say “I do” at the altar‚ or the divine feeling in your chest when you pray. Every one of these situations could be used to describe love. Its an emotion so richly embedded into our minds‚ that every single one of us can say they’ve experienced it in their lives. Some might even say they’ve molded their existence around it. However‚ while we are all familiar with love‚ the situations in which we encounter

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    deals with every situation in a positive way. Firstly‚ when Najaf was 12 years old‚ his eldest brother and father -figure Gorg Ali ‚ was brutally shot .Najaf’s entire family was moaning over the loss of Gorg Ali‚ and felt hopeless. In spite of this situation‚ Najaf knew that if he didn’t work‚ the family will have no support and therefore went to the carpet factory six days a week and worked extremely hard. One of the other major incidents was when the rocket exploded on najaf’s house‚ breaking his right

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    In the beginning of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” Mel’s talk about spiritual love meant the most to me. I have always been very strong spiritually‚ and very strong in my faith and love with God. Throughout the conversations in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” there are three main types of love discussed. Mel has stories trying to pinpoint true love‚ Nick and Laura are newlyweds that think they are in love‚ and Terri looks at love from an abusive standpoint. Mel makes

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    What are historical explanations? Historical explanations are another term for ultimate explanations which are concerned with the entire existence of a group of organisms as opposed to just the explanations of a specific individual. 2. How are Freudian concepts historical explanations? What mistake do such explanations make to manufacture an immediate cause of behavior? Freudian concepts are historical explanations because of the use of childhood experiences as explanations for adulthood behavior

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    Statement of Explanation – “The night that never happened” I am composing a creative piece in the form of a short story. The intended audience are adults who are unable to empathise with asylum seekers. I am agreeing with the prompt that ‘It is often the vulnerable and powerless‚ who are unable to avoid the effects of conflict.’ I will draw on ideas from the memoir “The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif” such as the setting and not to mention using a Najaf-like character who has similar history (dealing

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    Monique Diaz Behavior Explanation # 1 Spring 2010 1. Observation: One of my close friends is one of those people whose personality thrived when she was present in a social setting with a variety of people to affiliate with. Once we got into college she was determined to rush a sorority‚ because she felt that she needed to meet more people‚ associate with different types of people‚ and to be a part of something to make her college experience. She felt that if she did not rush‚ she would

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    were alive‚ and if they were‚ they were either in hiding or had been captured. His problems and struggles in this book were very similar to Anne Frank’s‚ a young girl who lived during World War II. Anne Frank was also a Jew who went into hiding when the Nazis invaded her country. However‚ the Nazis discovered their hiding place and sent them into a concentration camp‚ just as the Nazis did to Jacob’s family. Only she was not able to escape. Corrie Ten Boom and her entire family also were taken

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    be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice‚ but there must never be a time when we fail to protest" Justice can be seen from numerous amounts of perspectives where it is due to the upbringing of the person or due to their cultural beliefs‚ however they are all guided by the principal of fairness. Sadly though‚ sometimes we may be powerless to prevent injustice from occurring‚ as we are not always in the position where we are able to do something. This however should not mean we lose all

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    spirit‚ for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." In the book it states‚ We are poor in spirit when we recognize that everything we are and everything we have are pure gifts from God. This means that we should help others because we understand that if God hadn’t given us the gifts we would be poor to. "Blessed are they who mourn‚ for they will be comforted." We mourn when we are sorrowful over a sinful world and over our own sins. We are saddened over injustice-children who are homeless and hungry; people

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    Describe two explanations of schizophrenia and evaluate these explanations (9 and 16 marks) Two explanations of schizophrenia are the biological perspective and the psychological perspective. The biological perspective involves genetic factors that influence schizophrenia‚ however the psychological perspective involves environmental factors in which you learn the behaviour of a schizophrenic. The first explanation is the biological perspective‚ it has two subtypes‚ these are biochemical and

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