1.DEFINITION: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic condition that affects millions of children and often persists into adulthood. Problems associated with ADHD include inattention and hyperactive‚ impulsive behavior. Children with ADHD may struggle with low self-esteem‚ troubled relationships and poor performance in school. 2.SYMPTOMS: Signs and symptoms of inattention may include: Often fails to pay close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork
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Distinguish between altruism and prosocial behaviour. • Pro-social behavior: behavior that benefits another person or has positive social consequences Definition is vague because it discusses the outcome but not the motivation e.g. When we offer sympathy to a friend that is upset or refrain from dropping scolding a person for doing something wrong. • Altruism: when one helps another person for no reward and even at some cost to oneself. It is a type of “helping behavior”(intentionally
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with the banning of opposition and imprisoning protest leaders. The larger the protest‚ the greater the amount of violence that would be used to get the protestors to stop. These protest created struggle for the government to maintain the regime. Changes made to the Apartheid in the 1980’s struggled to stop the protesting opposition. In 1990 the president at the time Frederik Willem de Klerk started to negotiate options and ways to end the apartheid. The apartheid was lifted in 1991 which lead to
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According to the Mosby’s Medical‚ Nursing‚ & Allied Health Dictionary health is defined as a condition of physical‚ mental‚ and social well being and the absence of disease or other abnormal conditions. It is not a static condition; constant change and adaptation to stress result in homeostasis. Rene Dubos has been quoted in nursing education as saying “The states of health or disease are the expressions of the success or failure experienced by the organism in its efforts to respond adaptively to
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hero should stand out from others because it shows people that they shouldn’t be afraid of being different. Heroes should not be like everybody else and they shouldn’t always worry about what others think. This helps define a hero because if they change themself for other people‚ they aren’t unique. An example of this particular quality of a hero could be Ed Sheeran. According to capitalfm.com‚ when Ed Sheeran was younger‚ he was bullied. He
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A) WHAT IS DEVIANCE? o Def: Behavior‚ beliefs or conditions that violate significant norms in society‚ or the group in which it occurs. o Behavior-Belief-Condition o Based on “beliefs” or “deviation from the mean” o Crime is not necessarily a deviant (speeding) o Deviance is not necessarily a crime (assisting drowning). 1) Who defines deviance? NOT inherent in specific behavior or person. SOCIALLY-defined and relative to the situation. CRIME- a violation of criminal law-punished by the CJ
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Exoneration‚ by definition‚ is the action of officially absolving someone from blame; vindication. Exoneration happens because people can be accused of a crime due to witness error and not having enough DNA evidence. It happens a lot more than what people think. On July 21st‚ 1982 at 3:00 am‚ a woman in Jacksonville‚ North Carolina was awoken by a strange man standing at the foot of her bed; he had broken into her house. She was home alone with her three children while her husband was working
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When a pastor of thanatology is called to minister to a concerned person over the death of a loved one or a friend‚ this is not a natural approach at the time. Because timing is everything. Though death is a regular part of life‚ the important thing for the pastor to do is to listen. As the pastor hear‚ he will determine if the person desires to talk about the end of life. A conversation about death is not natural. The speak of death whether during preparation or after death‚ the pastor must know
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Charles Lawson Showalter DE English 12 11/17/12 Human Nature Oscar Wilde said "The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate from it. The systems that fail are those who rely on the permanency of human nature‚ and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result." Human nature
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TRANSISTOR The name is transistor derived from ‘transfer resistors’ indicating a solid state Semiconductor device. In addition to conductor and insulators‚ there is a third class of material that exhibits proportion of both. Under some conditions‚ it acts as an insulator‚ and under other conditions it’s a conductor. This phenomenon is called Semi-conducting and allows a variable control over electron flow. So‚ the transistor is semi conductor device used in electronics for amplitude. Transistor
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