Pliny’s accounts are better than Fiorelli’s methods. Do agree with this statement? The eruption that struck Pompeii on the 24th august 79AD was witnessed by Pliny the younger who provided the only description of events that day. He describes a cloud‚ “like a pine tree it spread out and drifted‚ dirty and blotchy as a cause of the earth and ash.” Pliny lived in Misenum with his uncle Pliny the elder‚ who was the first to notice the odd phenomenon that was happening in Pompeii and went to examine
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Case Study of Molly A Conceptualization and Treatment Plan Rational Emotive Behavior therapy suggests that humans are neither all evil nor all good. REBT suggests that people are responsible for their own actions. The beliefs of individuals at times can be misleading; therefore‚ the actions that follow the beliefs are faulty as well. REBT allows for individuals to change their way of thinking in order to change the way in which they behave without having
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are broadly the same’ to what extent do you agree with this statement? (40) Urbanisation is the process by which the proportion of people living in cites and towns rises in comparison to rural areas. Urbanisation in London‚ England‚ as a developed which was at that time developing country and city‚ started around the 1760s continuing through to the 19th century‚ by which time 80% of the population was urban dwellers‚ sparked by the industrial revolution. So this is a time span of around 150 years
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illegal and legal means. On 27th February 1933 there was an attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin that became known as the Reichstag fire. Some people have theorised that it was actually the Nazi’s that started the fire for their own gain. The Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State was a short-term decree issued in direct response to the fire‚ which eradicated the power of the Reichstag. It invalidated the rights of the German people and was used as a legal basis
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“Social class is the most important factor influencing how people vote.” How far do you agree with this statement? Many things can influence the way people vote‚ including the way they feel‚ the influences they have had or the pressures they have from the way they live. Family could have an influence in the way people vote. This could be because of family heritage; people could feel it is duty to vote for a party that the family is involved with. This could also have the opposite effect; in the
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Ann Barton said “Lovelorn Orsino is not a figure of fun. The verse he speaks at the beginning of the play is seductively beautiful: intense‚ metaphoric and imaginative” To what extent do you agree with this view of the presentation of the character of Orsino? The presentation of Duke Orsino emphasises the dominant theme of love in Twelfth Night. He can be interpreted in different ways. There is debate as to whether Orsino represents the beauty and truth of love as a heroic lover‚ or as a stock
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“On balance the league of nations proved to be a failure in the 1920’s.” How far do you agree with this statement? Explain. 10 marks. The League of Nations was the brainchild of USA’s president‚ Woodrow Wilson‚ and was one of his suggested 14 points that followed the Treaty of Versailles. The League was based on a covenant‚ a set of 26 articles‚ which all the members had to follow. The main structure of the League was set in the form of The Assembly and the Council‚ of which there were four permanent
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Albert Ellis and the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Psychology‚ Period A December 10‚ 2012 Albert Ellis and the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburgh‚ PA on September 17‚ 1913. He was the eldest out of three children. As a child‚ he mostly took care of his younger siblings because his father was a business man and was mostly away on business trips. His mother was described as “self-absorbed” and “bi-polar” in his biography; so neither of his
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Are People Rational (in the economist ’s sense) and Reasonable (in the lawyer ’s sense)? Both concepts of rationality and reasonableness indicate a process of reasoning by anticipating and analysing the consequences of their potential actions and establishing a list of preferences‚ depending on the anticipated consequences. A rational person‚ having established their list of preferences‚ will choose the action which will maximise their utility. There are many different variations of rationality
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“Our rational powers acquaint us with the truth.” Discuss whether‚ for Plato‚ art can also acquaint us with the ideas and the truth. “There is a long standing tradition‚ dating back to Plato‚ of regarding art with suspicion for its power over our emotions‚ and much of Western aesthetic theorizing has been a response to Plato’s challenge.” (Tanner 68) Plato’s arguments and refusal to accept art as a valuable method of acquainting us with the truth has provided a lasting legacy for the criticism
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