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    Waitress Job Description

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    Waitress Job Description My main responsibility of a waitress is to make sure the customers have everything they need to have a good experience in the establishment and return for more good service. My responsibilities as a waitress included: • welcoming customers‚ • showing them to their seats‚ (escort customers to their table)‚ • providing them with menus‚ • inform customers of daily specials‚ • taking food and drink orders‚ • explaining the ingredients

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    Stanford Prison Study

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    Introduction The Stanford Prison study began on August 14th and ended on August 21st‚ 1971. This experiment helped psychologists to better understand conformity and human nature. The objective was to watch the interaction between the two groups of men without an obviously malevolent authority. Description The study took place in the basement of Stanford University by a small group of researchers during the summer or 1971. These researches were led by a man named Philip Zimbardo. 24 male students

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    A Stimulated Prison Study

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    This essay will focus on “A Study of Prison Guards in a Stimulated Prison”‚ an experiment conducted in 1973 at Stanford University‚ by one of the most famous Psychologists to date‚ Philip Zimbardo. Interestingly‚ the Office of Naval Research sponsored the study as part of an ongoing programme tailored to generate a better understanding of the first principles of psychological processes underlying human aggression (Haney‚ Banks‚ & Zimbardo‚ 1973). A famous experiment that is widely propagated in

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    Prison Tattoos Notes

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    Maintenance of Prison tattoos – have mission statement and list of behavioral protocols‚ rarely have formal protocols regarding tattooing. Most facilities prohibit tattooing. Realities of tattoo prohibition – De facto pervasive tattooing prohibition. Doesn’t detail punishments for tattoos. It’s considered a minor infraction. Formal protocols are minor but in practice‚ the punishments are far more severe. This is due to gang correlation with tattoos. Parole board is entrusted with responsibility

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    Philip Zimbardo‚ born in 1933 in New York (USA) is a psychologist and investigator‚ who focus in social psychology. His best known work is the Stanford´s Prison experiment‚ searching for an explanation for the violence in the USA prisons. He wanted to know if this behaviour is due to the personalities of the guards (i.e. dispositional) or due to the prison environment and structure (i.e. situational). He later gave class in some of the best universities of the world; Yale‚ NYU and Columbia. His also known

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    Machiavelli On Violence

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    Use of physical violence is discussed when analyzing how a political entities should be ruled. German philosopher Max Weber (1864-1920)‚ in his essay Politics as a Vocation‚ incorporated the “legitimate use of violence” into his definition of state as a state-specific characteristic. Florentine philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) presented physical violence as an absolute necessity in consolidating power . Despite having lived in different centuries and backgrounds‚ Weber’s and Machiavelli’s

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    To what extent

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    To what extent was Austria responsible for the failure of the Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-1849? Austria played an integral part for the failure of Italian revolutionaries in between the years 1820-1849‚ due to their incredible influence throughout Europe at that time‚ being known as a superpower. Their military strength shone through‚ and crushed every revolution between 1820 and 1849. However‚ they are not the sole reason for failure. There are also other important factors that

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    Crime and Violence

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    Impact of violence on Jamaican society The devastating impact of widespread violence on social order has been widely documented. As is the case worldwide‚ all types of violence pose serious public health risks and exact both direct and indirect costs on society (3‚ 7‚ 8). The impact in terms of death‚ injuries‚ short- and long-term disabilities‚ and mental anguish is vast (7). In addition‚ violence impedes social advancement and deters economic growth and development. Violence inhibits the recruitment

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    Violence In Beowulf

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    X has always preached violence in cases of defending one’s self. “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down‚” and “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again‚” are two of his quotes that express his opinion towards violence (Goodreads‚ 1). Violence is a type of aggression that results from many different circumstances where individuals are to either fight or give in to their opponents. This concept of violence is illustrated in “Beowulf”

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    Violence In The Iliad

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    The affinity relating The Godfather to The Iliad as far as violence is concerned resides in the former’s enclosure only to its own mafia world‚ and the latter’s sole concern about the Trojan War. In other words‚ Chris Messenger noted that determining the tensions in a text like The Godfather lays in its remaining epic material and its urge to expose in the novel form. The epic material in this case is Puzo’s notion of Cosa Nostra that Messenger defines as “Our thing‚ synonymous with Our World” (Ibid

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