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    Crime theories are still in a development stage; it is an evolutionary process that continues to this day. Crime is still a complex and misunderstood phenomenon with no concrete evidence when it comes to human behavior. Throughout time there have been endless amounts of crime theories‚ few of which revolve around biological explanations. We have Cesare Lombroso and the Positive School who thought that criminals were genetically different from the rest of the general population‚ that they were biologically

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    Factors on civilization

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    Main components of every civilization: 1. government and laws 2. formal religion 3. language 4. agriculture (irrigation‚ domestication of plants‚ etc) 5. specialized skills (pottery‚ clothing‚ etc) 6. trade (to acquire what you do not have and cannot make‚ but need) 7. economic system (bartering or currency‚ etc). Factors that give rise to civilization: A. Geographical location 1. All four of the major centers of early civilization (were China‚ India‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Mesoamerica) arose

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    environment of Europe made men of this region unsuitable for the hot fields of the colonies. He claims that the mild climate would be easy for the slaves because they come from such an oppressive environment. This echos the concept of environmental determinism. He believed the climate contributed to the traits of people in the region. This train of thought can cause the racist ways Raynal thinks. He implies that slaves are there to work for whites and that’s how the social order should stay. (Doc. #6)

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    confiscated‚ everything else will remain. Section 810. represents the positive school because it is an example of how the state would protect society. In this provision the crime has not happened yet‚ one is only worried and fears and attack. Biological determinism is used to identify who would pose a threat; this is based on physical features. This law also focuses on the risk and future dangers the offender might display. Securing valued items of the delinquent is a method used by the state to prevent a

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    Feminists hold the belief that biological determinism of gender has promoted gender inequalities. When the sex of an individual is female‚ then one is expected to predispose the gender characteristics of a female such as maternal‚ passive‚ and domestic. Given that biological diversity between men and

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    Furthermore‚ Liberal Nationalists believe that the ideal world would be constructed of independent‚ sovereign nation-states. They also believe that these nation-states are equal‚ like the individuals within them‚ and that each will be entitled to self-determinism and as all these nation-states are equal and no chauvinism exists‚ it cannot be stated that Liberal Nationalists would advocate expansionism due to a global hierarchy‚ as Expansionist Nationalism does. Liberal Nationalists believe that the establishment

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    Existentlism is just freedom. Humans are not physical things but outside determinism too. 10. Explain‚ compare‚ and contrast the views of Anselm and Gaunilo regarding the Ontological argument. Anselm and Gaunilo has had views on ontological. Anselm if we believe there are two objects that are identical one isn’t perfect and the

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    Determinism implies that a person cannot avoid being influenced by his surroundings‚ but Frankl believes that a person does have a choice in whether or not a person is influenced by the things around him. Frankl tell us that “the sort of person the prisoner

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    Apol 104 Quiz 6

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    | Selected Answer: |  True | | | | | * Question 6 3 out of 3 points | | | This philosophy asserts that all human actions can ultimately be understood by observing cause and effectAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: |    Determinism | | | | | * Question 7 3 out of 3 points | | | “__________________” said that “Man is the measure of all thingsAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: |    Protagoras | | | | | * Question 8 3 out of 3 points | |

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    Paper #1 From the arguments discussed in class‚ I choose to evaluate Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument. Aquinas offers a believable case for the existence of God through five arguments. The arguments are “a posteriori arguments” with five strategies (Aquinas 52). The first argues that there is an unmoved mover that originated all motion but the mover‚ itself‚ does not move. The second argument concludes: “there must be a first cause to explain the existence of cause” (Aquinas 52). The third

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