Describe Holmes and Rahe’s (1967) Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) and describe to what extent it is a valid taxonomy of the causes of stress. The top five stressful events‚ which can happen in an individual’s life‚ are categorised as ‘death of a spouse’‚ ‘divorce’‚ ‘martial separation’‚ ‘jail term’‚ and ‘death of a close family member’. Also‚ events such as ‘vacation’ and ‘change in eating habits’ are considered to be minor life changes on the scale. Each event is attributed to an arbitrary
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Sarah Turner 019:090:A05 April 26‚ 2013 At a huge party of adolescents‚ a boy busts open a lawn gnome and a plethora of ecstasy pills go flying as everybody scrambles to claim their “party favors”. The actions being described is not a first-hand experience‚ but a popular scene from the film Project X. This film in its debut was extremely successful among adolescents and young adults. There are many other recent films such as this one that base its plot on drug use‚ underage drinking‚ and casual
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Baz Luhrmann’s film‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ is very successful as an appropriation of the original play by Shakespeare. Transforming the pre-16th century play into a contemporary popular culture film was done creatively by keeping the same values and language‚ but changing the context. This is illustrated by the use of anachronisms. For instance‚ daggers and swords are replaced by guns as well as cars stand in for horses. The disputes between members of the two families (the Capulets and the Montagues)
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music: How does it affect their taste for OPM (Original Pilipino Music)? CHAPTER IV RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This particular research study aims to determine the Pinoy Youth’s Preference for Korean Pop Music and how does it affect their taste for Original Pilipino Music (OPM). Regarding this‚ the researchers will seek to know whether factors like rhythm and music composition of Korean Popular Music really affect the Pinoy teenagers’ preference towards Original Pilipino Music In addition‚ the researchers
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Our Town vs. Steel Magnolias To the casual observer‚ Our Town‚ the theatrical piece by Thornton Wilder‚ is very different from the cinematic production entitled Steel Magnolias (based on Robert Harling’s original stage play). Due to their differences in setting‚ characters‚ and mood‚ it can be difficult to see the obvious parallels. A more in-depth look at both pieces reveals many similarities in different areas‚ such as daily life‚ love‚ marriage‚ and death. Despite the fact that Our Town takes
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Tim Blake Nelson’s film “O”‚ modernised the original Elizabethan play Othello into a 21st century American film to suite the values and society of the modern audiences. It becomes noticeable in the film that Hugo is always disconnected and shows his deceptiveness through manipulating Odin. Hugo’s family relationship highlights his jealousy for Odin as his own father‚ who is also the coach of the basketball team‚ devotes more time and shows only love for Odin rather than his own son. This is noticeable
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Kellogg’s recognised that it’s time to stretch the brand to not only keep original core product‚ Special K‚ strong but also grow the brand as a whole. They did a lot on marketing research‚ tasty research and quantitative research before they launched Special K cereal and Special K bars. Soon Kellogg’s came to realise that there was a huge growth in the Special K brand since the launch of variants‚ and at the same time sales of the original Special K didn’t drop anymore. Positive effect The launch of
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Sahlins concluded that prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities were the “original affluent society.” The term did not go unnoticed amongst the scholars. Most anthropologists embraced the thesis‚ but some also showed some objections against the thesis. As a result‚ a hot debate was created within the scholars of economic anthropology. Nurit Bird-David and David Kaplan form part of those who have emitted criticism of the original affluence thesis. In this essay‚ I discuss the opinions of the two scholars
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How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? The article I wrote about was about a man who shot his daughter and her mother and killed a 79 year old woman on the steps of a court house in Beaumont‚ TX. Based on the details of this article gun control would be the national political issue that could possibly be discussed. The strategy for improving things would be the best strategy to use to improve and make changes in the laws of gun control
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Frederick Jackson Turner‚ The Significance of the Frontier in American History *-* Turner‚ "The existence of an area of free land‚ its continuous recession‚ and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." -The census of 1890 said that the frontier line by 1880 was indiscernible. Turner considered that vital since the official American history up 2 that time consisted of the colonization of the West& that it was this that explained American development.-The West compelled
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