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    Milgram’s aim was to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress

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    Do you agree or disagree. There is never a reason for death penalty to be used. In some countries‚ serious criminals such as serial murderers and terrorist bomber hardly escape death sentence. While many complement on such tough justice‚ others condemn it mainly for religious reasons. It appears to me that those who are against the death penalty have failed to notice the more humane aspects behind this seemingly inhumane charge. My essay will look at those humane aspects as against those to the

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    has been falsely punished and hasn’t done anything wrong (quote). Due to his wrong doings we feel he is not a hero‚ as this is not typical of one. However his proclaiming of innocence causes us to feel empathy for him. “A year this very day” shows how things have changed over a short period of time. We learn the public has forgotten about him and even when he’s being marched to his death only a few people were there “Just a palsied few”. This causes us to think his so called crime could not have

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    boundaries by which an oceanic plate slides slowly under a continental plate into the Earth’s mantle‚ as the result of pressure and friction. After a long period of time the overriding continental plate is lifted up creating a mountain range. This is how the Himalayas were formed. Sometimes the extreme heat and pressure exerted on the subducting oceanic plate causes an uplift of magma from the mantle which rises above the surface‚ creating a volcano. When two plates are moving they don’t always slide

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    accepted piece of evidence for plate tectonics. It is the patterns on the rocks which presented a problem with the theory. There was thought to be a problem with the description of the movement being “slow and gradual”. According to scientists and geologists the movement would have been performed at a rapid speed. A physicist then predicted where the evidence for this rapid movement could be found and it was later proved that the argument against the theory was correct. The biblical view of plate tectonics

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    The Impact Of Plate Tectonics on the Caribbean * The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. * Volcanic activity in the Caribbean itself‚ as distinct from Central America‚ is largely limited to the eastern Caribbean. Here‚ the Caribbean plate‚ moving approximately west to east‚ meets the North American plate‚ which is moving approximately east to west. This creates what is known as a seductions

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    points in this report revolve around tectonic plate subduction‚ uplift around the Denali fault‚ and the rock composition of the mountain. The combination of these three forces are integral reasons for why the mountain has been able to grow to its size and why it’s been able to maintain its height. To understand how subduction has affected Denali and the Alaska mountain range‚ you first need to understand how plate tectonics work. The theory of plate tectonics centers on the idea that the Earth’s

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    Volcanic and seismic events are major pieces of evidence towards proving that plate tectonics theory is valid.’ Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. (40 marks) Over the years proceeding the birth of the theory‚ increasingly convincing evidence has been gathered for proof of the theory of plate tectonics. In 1912‚ Alfred Wegner proposed the theory that continents are sat upon tectonic plates and that these plates are slowly drifting around the Earth (continental drift).

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    Hazards are anything that could cause damage to humans or buildings. Many volcanic and seismic events happen that cause hazards to humans. Often the world’s poorest people are hit the worst‚ however wealthier countries can also be adversely affected. The Kobe earthquake in Japan 1995 struck at 5.45am. Many people were asleep in bed‚ causing the hazard to be increased because the people were unaware. Although many Japanese buildings were of aseismic design‚ the roofs of their houses were designed

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    Continental Drift‚ Plate Tectonics‚ The North American Plate The experts and scientists have theories on how the the world’s plates move and how earthquakes occur. These theories on how the world’s plate move is called continental drift and the theory on how earthquakes occur is called plate tectonics. They also have a lot of information on the North American Plate and in which direction it is moving and information like that. Now let me tell you more about each of these topics. Continental

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