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    31 Functions of emotions : * Preparing us for action. Emotions act as a link between events in our environment and our responses. * Shaping our future behavior. Emotions promote learning that will help us make appropriate responses in the future. * Helping us interact more efficiently with others. We ooften communicate the emotion we experience through our verbal and nonverbal behaviors‚ making our emotions obvious to observers. Determining the Range of Emotions: Labeling Our Feelings

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    Emotions When it comes to the theories of emotions Darwin said that our body movements and our facial expressions are used to communicate meaning. Darwin also went on to suggest are first learned‚ then goes on to being something that we just do without thought for survival. This can be explained easier with an example in terms of two dogs. If you have a dog at your house and somebody brings their dog over for the first time if you watch them you will see the dog that is visiting for the first time

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    and their many subsets‚ emotion is the generic term for subjective‚ conscious experience that is characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions‚ biological reactions‚ and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood‚ temperament‚ personality‚ disposition‚ and motivation‚[citation needed] as well as influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine‚ noradrenaline‚ serotonin‚ oxytocin and cortisol. Emotion is often the driving force

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    Emotion When two people in love decide to be together‚ initially it feels like the best thing in the world. Your entire world becomes about that one person they consume your thoughts and you feel like you would do anything in your power to make that person happy. But as time goes on and you two find out more about each others personality’s many things you don’t know about this person begin to come out. They push you to limits no one else can and relationships can really test your emotional strength

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    Written Assignment 2: Longevity and Obstacles As people become older‚ they face various obstacles in their lives. What are the demands of longevity? Give at least 2 obstacles faced by the elderly in your country. Give solutions - ways the elderly can overcome each obstacle and/or the measures that can be taken to help the elderly. Include examples and state any references used. (350-400 words) Longevity and Obstacles How long can a person live? In my country‚ Myanmar‚ life expectancy today is

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    who is best known for his work in epistemology. In his work‚ “Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation‚” he argues against foundationalism by and ultimately concludes that “strong foundationalism is untenable as a solution to the regress problem” (6). He explores externalism‚ a view that holds that rational explanations are found through observing objective features that exist in the world; as well as givenism‚ the view that one can understand facts without having evidence or beliefs regarding those

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    dingCan lay expertise contribute to scientific knowledge? What are the obstacles? Using Brian Wynne’s Chernobyl work as a case study‚ assess the possibilities and the perils of welcoming different publics into the scientific sphere. The Science Council recently embarked on a year long project to work out a new definition of science. They claim it is the first ever official definition published: “Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world

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    Dealing With Obstacles

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    And so on. The point is that opportunity coming from having to deal with obstacles is not a new concept. Humans have known it to be a fact for millennia. The Stoics firmly believed that you must take the obstacles in your life and turn them to your advantage‚ controlling what you can and accepting what you can’t. Not easy by any means‚ but eminently doable. We all have the ability to flip obstacles into opportunity but sadly‚ we all don’t tap into that gift. We choose how we perceive issues‚ so it

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    Obstacles And Challenges

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    It’s indisputable that the “numbers” aspect of my application isn’t the strongest. Obstacles and challenges often seemed to get the best of me during high school. But still‚ I have emerged confident and optimistic. By ninth grade‚ life had hit me too hard. I was still drunk on anger from my mother’s schizophrenia diagnosis‚ her disappearance from my family and my parents’ divorce. Years of art therapy had helped me recover from these traumas and in 10th grade‚ I was on a stronger path: I knew

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