Until recently, the trend among political scientists has been to assume that the most predictable aspect of voting patterns are related to the association between a persons party preference and their socio-economic background, and for younger voters the preference of their parents. ... However a more noticeable shift occurred in the 2004 campaign, with journalists attributing the term 'doctors wives', a label which first appeared in a Sydney tabloid (Silkstone, 2004), to a proportion of 'well-off' voters, typically living in inner metropolitan electorates that would ...

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To address the first part of his argument, it is necessary to understand Hobbes' reasoning that competition among humans will be inevitable. ... The second part of his argument is based on the belief that no one person can have superiority when competing with others based on the fact that every one person is predominantly equal in his or her ability to kill one another. ... The last part of Hobbes' argument focuses on the notion that every person seeks admiration from others. ... Though there are many of them, we will focus mainly on the first three laws: the first being to seek p...

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As Arendt says in her essay of Total Domination, "the fundamental belief [and] () and total domination () is possible only if each and every person can be reduced to a never-changing identity of reactions, so that each of these bundles of reactions can be exchange at random for any other" (124). By the poetry elements of imagery, organization, and theme in the poem of Niemöller "First They Came for the Jews" and imagery in Gershon's poem "Race"; Arendt describes how totalitarianism effects are exposed, emphasizing the importance of diversity and toleran...

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The Death Penalty Capital punishment has been a prominent subject in society ever since the first civilizations and it continues to be used today as a form of punishment. ... A number of states sought to resolve the discriminatory and arbitrary nature of the death penalty by simply sentencing everyone to death that was convicted of first-degree murder, but the Supreme Court rejected this proposal saying that "mandatory death sentence laws did not really resolve the problem but instead 'simply papered [it] over' since juries responded by refusing to convict certain arbitrarily chosen...

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Stage one (trust vs. mistrust), occurs during the first year of life and during this stage the infant is unsure of the world they live in and look to their parents or caregivers for stability. ... In the first stage as the individual is an infant the radius of significant relationships extends to the maternal person in their life and the circle of relationships is quite small. Stage two sees that it extends to the parental persons, stage three sees that it extends to the basic family and with each stage the radius of the circle of relationships progressively extends its boundaries (refer to ...

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There are five general rules as to an offer the first being that the offer must be communicated by the offeror to the offeree, the second being the offeror may restrict his or her offer to one person or may make his or her offer to a limited group of persons or to the world at large, the third rule states that all terms of an offer must be communicated to "party" accepting the offer. ... The first rule reads that the acceptance of an offer must relate to the offer in it's entirety and cannot vary or in any way qualify that offer; the second rule is that acceptance of an offer must be made...

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"Most insider trading is illegal and is also unethical, not merely because it is illegal, but because, it is claimed, the person who trades on insider information in effect "steals" this information and thereby gains an unjust or unfair advantage over the member of the general public" (Velasquez). Typically one can categorize insiders into three factions: (1) registered or true insiders, which include company officials, certain upper level employees, and major stockholders, possessing information not available to the general public; (2) temporary or quazi- insiders, such as accounts or la...

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Obviously, a person with serious mental deficiencies cannot be trained to be a nuclear physicist. ... If someone who exhibits great ability to solve problems in the quiet of an office is unable to function well under stress and experiences relationships with others as stressful, then it is obvious that such a person will be ineffective in a great many circumstances in everyday life. ...

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Overview and Development of the Differential Association Theory Differential Association Theory is one of the social learning theories that attempt to explain deviance and crime "crime is brought about by a conflict of behaviors that originate from different cultures"[Edw34]; for instance, if a person associates with criminals, it is highly likely that he/she will develop criminal behavior, the crime rate is higher in disorganized urban settlements where crime runs in the family. ... First, Sutherland asserts that deviant behavior is learned, which implies that deviant behavior is no...

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On the other side of the argument, we can look at Hobbes' advocacy of moderation in the bourgeois society, limiting competition between persons within the society and offering a vision of a civil commonwealth in which people are protected against those whom relentlessly seek power. In C.B Macpherson's article, Hobbes' "Bourgeois Man," he argues that Hobbes' commonwealth puts an extreme emphasis on pride, or vainglory being among the most basic of individual drives that we hold has humans, and further dives into the idea that Hobbes' Commonwealth is a society t...

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The self-regulation theory works well with a study of sleeping habits and recovery because it is dependent upon the person and his or her relationship to the environment, the change of that relationship is initiated by their self-set goals. ... PERS would be first focused on education, then following with the plan and intervention being implicated and finally maintaining the intervention based behaviors. ... The educational aims would first focus on the general implications for all individuals, such as the neuroendocrine, immune and metabolic system, then break the learning down into a more ...

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First, the government should be more open and accountable through innovation especially through prior ministers. ... Under these conditions, prior cabinet ministers are not responsible and cannot have any accusations held against them by parliament for any misdemeanor that took place during that person's time in office. ... Because of this, directing the accountability to any person in this particular scenario is a situation that members of parliament do not want to be a part of. ... First, objectives have been put in place to improve accountability and transparency within the near futu...

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Politics are a driving force of human nature that dictate the destiny of a nation and potentially control every person that inhabits a region. ... As Nicolaus Copernicus acted as the first serious threat to this theory by claiming that the sun rested in the center of the universe, he was relentlessly attacked and eventually his theories were considered illogical and were disregarded. ... The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were able to surge the world with an intensity that could not be reproduced by any other event due to the lasting effect they had on the social life of the avera...

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Nevertheless, some of his more complex and, in my opinion, moving satire is directed at what he refers to as the "Bright Young Things," that is, the new rich generation that followed the end of the First World War. ... He describes them as a generation betrayed by their ancestors who are not at fault for the horrors of the First World War but yet have to suffer their consequences. ... In truth, there is remarkably little sex in Vile Bodies: despite being lovers, Adam and Nina sleep together for the first time in chapter five and we discover that this "was the first time that this had happene...

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First, the University of Maryland states that "sexual harassment is an illegal form of sex discrimination. ... The University of Southern California, for example, specifically and carefully uses the words "person," "victim" and "survivor" to distinguish the roles involved in sexual harassment and misconduct, but keep the designated roles gender neutral ("University"). ... Additionally, the University of Maryland's sexual harassment policy includes the fact that "sexual harassment is offensive sexual behavior by persons in authority towards those who can be benefited or injured in an offic...

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To be diagnosed with Schizophrenia, one must display 2 or more of the following for at least one month: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms (First 285). ... Schizophrenia only rarely appears during childhood or adolescence; the typical age of onset is usually between the late teenage years and mid-thirties (First 281). ... When treating a young person with schizophrenia, a multi-modal approach including medication, cognitive and family therapy, and environmental strategies is usually best (Clark 1073). ... In one study, fam...

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With most social media sites catering to a wide range of friends, from the best of friends people you may have never even met in person or are barely acquaintances with, deep and meaningful friendship is simply not put in the forefront of sites like Facebook or Twitter. ... Besides the apparent issues of not truly knowing this person who you are "friends" with, over reliance on online relationships rather than face to face communication can lead teens to retreat into themselves and shut out potentially valuable friendships in the real-world (Rideout, 2012). ... FoMO may not be widesp...

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Internal promotion is good public relations and reinforces the point that the organisation is interested in the welfare and development of its own people and will consider them first. ... There exists a lack of knowledge of the person being promoted as they have not previously been working within the organisation therefore hiring becomes a slower process. ... Parks (1985) suggests, as if a person feels he has been passed over for promotion without being properly considered, they can become embittered to the point of believing that they will never be given a chance and resign, leaving behind a ...

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The diagnostic term "borderline" came from English psychiatrist C.H Hughes in 1884, which wrote an article called "Borderland Psychiatrist Records" where he mentioned borderline for the very first time. ... By pressing A you win more points, pressing B you are subtracting points from the other players and C is protecting yourself from having the other person take away your points. ... When a person is suffering from a personality disorder they become more susceptible for self-harm or becoming suicidal. ...

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The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's mind in the form of a dream. One surprising thing that can be noted in the poem is that even though it is a first person account from the eyes of the narrator we hardly get to know about the narrator the poem foc...

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The first step in trying to find an answer to that question would be to trace the different positions of the army at every stage during that period. ... After that, the country entered a transitional period where the supreme council of armed forces was to rule until the time that a democratic presidential election would be held, and it was this period that caused the first wave of change in the army's position. ... When the time of the first presidential elections in Egypt after the revolution finally came in may 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi emerged victorious, ...

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First, fraud detection must be recognized as a responsibility of auditors. ... The first order of business must be education that permits the auditor to understand the industry in which the company being audited is materially active. ... If an auditing partner is receiving a major portion of his or her income from a particular client, the auditing firm should ensure that a senior regional staff person reviews the audit. ...

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Broadbent (1954, cited in Naish, 2010) was one of the first researchers to investigate auditory attention using dichotic listening experiments. ... Broadbent theory suggest that it would be impossible to hear your name in another conversation when you are not paying attention because unattended message is filtered out early before meaning is processed and only those simple physical characteristics are given attention, It assumes that a person can only listen to one thing at a time, Broadbent (1958, cited in Driver, 2001). ... The cocktail party effect is an example of how unattended informatio...

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Generation Holden Caulfield The teenage years are, without argument, the most confusing and formative years of a person's transition into adulthood, and the onus of an anxiety filled teenage existence leads, naturally, to an anxiety filled adult existence, as well as a variety of prescription medications and therapies along the way. ... As a person reaches puberty, brain activity increases tremendously, especially in the prefrontal cortex. ...

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The emotional peculiarities of Meursault are first demonstrated in his reactions at his mother's funeral. ... This poses stark contrast with Perez's expression of being "too upset to notice things " (Camus 57), illustrating how a person in mourning would conventionally act. ... The person he kisses and swims with could easily be anybody other than Marie, and this outlook is antithetical to those of Marie, since she pursues a permanent and concrete relationship where marriage is concerned. ...

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