cause has yet to be found. Anti-homosexuals‚ consisting mainly of religious groups‚ believe that homosexuality is abnormal‚ unnatural‚ and can be changed. Because of their beliefs‚ homosexuality must be a learned behavior. Whether homosexuality is biological or learned behavior is still a mystery‚ but scientists are finding more evidence to suggest the former. Webster’s online dictionary defines abnormal as deviating from the normal or average. By that definition alone homosexuality is abnormal‚ but
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2. Biological Classification Classification The process of grouping living organisms into convenient categories based on simple characters is known as classification. 1. Two kingdom classification Carolus Linnaeus divided all living things into two kingdoms- Plantae and Animalia. 2. Five kingdom classification R.H. Whittaker divided all living things into five kingdoms- Monera‚ Protista‚ Fungi‚ Plantae‚ and Animalia. The main criteria for classification included o cell structure o thallus
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Stem Cell Research Adult stem cell research is providing opportunities to treat people with a various diseases and conditions. In 2010‚ a man’s ankle refused to heal so the doctor took bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle‚ condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid‚ and injected that into his ankle. Four months later‚ the ankle was healed! Adult stem cells are found in all tissues of the growing human being and‚ according to latest reports‚ also have the potential
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AS Biology‚ Biological Molecules Revision Notes Distinguish between monomers and polymers: Monomers- Identical small molecules. Polymers- Chainlike molecules formed from the linking together of many similar. Distinguish between monosaccharides‚ disaccharides‚ and polysaccharides: Monosaccharides- Simple sugars; sugar molecules may be enantiomers due due to the spatial arrangement of parts around asymmetric carbons; raw material for synthesis of other organic molecules. Disaccharides-
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Biological and Psychological Models of Abnormality Introduction The many different models used to explain the nature and treatment of mental illness compound the problems of defining and classifying abnormal behaviour. Five major schools of thought are summarised below. The biological (medical) model The medical of abnormality model has dominated the psychiatric profession since the last century . The underlying assumption of this model is that mental illnesses resemble physical
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Chapter 21 Hard Determinism and Libertarianism 1. Free will and the hypothesis of mechanism In the previous chapter we looked at two arguments meant to show that no choice or action anyone ever makes is a choice or action made freely. Both arguments depend crucially on the idea that the behaviour of people‚ even their thoughtfully willed behaviour‚ is no less the mechanical result of prior events than is the behaviour of anything else in the world. Both arguments‚ that is‚ explicitly suppose
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GENDER What is Gender? To label gender as the sexes or the reproductive organs would be too broad of a definition. Depending on the gender type you are‚ people‚ culture and society have expectations that you must follow‚ Eg‚ if you are a women‚ you are expected to stay at home and look after the children while your husband is out working. Yet nowadays since culture is constantly evolving males and females have suddenly swapped roles‚ and this is where debates arrive on whether it’s right or wrong
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Can freewill and determinism coexist? Discuss the claim that we humans have no real freedom of choice. Throughout history‚ the problem of freewill vs. determinism has sparked major debates between philosophers. The debate between freewill and determinism stems from the apparent conflict between the universal rule of causality that is deeply rooted in nature‚ and between the apparent ability of human beings to choose between multiple courses of action in order to lead to the most desirable
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The Contradictory Nature of Soft Determinism I. Introduction "There is a continuum between free and unfree‚ with many or most acts lying somewhere in between." (Abel‚ 322) This statement is a good summation of how Nancy Holmstrom ’s view of free will allows for degrees of freedom depending on the agent ’s control over the situation. Holmstrom ’s main purpose in her Firming Up Soft Determinism essay was to show that people can have control over the source of their actions‚ meaning that people can
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Hippocrates and Ratzel thought temperate regions were the best due to the notion that difficult (scarcity) conditions are positive for a civilization. Hippocrates and Ratzel made environmental determinism about character. For example‚ Hippocrates thought that an excess of heat burns one’s skin and that is why they are black and that an excessive amount of cold is what makes people white. “The intelligence resides not only in their magnitude‚ but in their power of growth” (Ratzel‚ 1896/2014‚ p. 110)
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