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    In Peter Goldsworthy’s novel Maestro‚ the main character Paul Crabbe who is a young adolescent that narrates the story in two time-spaces as a memoir. First we see him when he is a self-absorbed‚ selfish arrogant teenager and then when he has matured into a young man. Paul was one of the teenagers that had the feeling of being invincible and believing that he was better than everyone else around him‚ this being shown through the immaturity‚ self-absorption and selfishness of him. This image of

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    Deindividuation is a process whereby people lose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised and often antisocial behaviour. Generally‚ people refrain from acting in an aggressive and antisocial manner because they are easily identifiable. When a person is deindividualised‚ they lose their sense of self awareness and their sense of personal responsibility. For example‚ in a crowd‚ where a person is less likely to be identified and held responsible for their aggressive

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    We forget things for two reasons‚ firstly the memory has disappeared- it is no longer available or secondly the memory is stored in the memory system but cannot be retrieved. The first theory is more likely to be applicable to forgetting in the short term memory and the second in the long term memory. You can differentiate between availability and accessibility. Availability is whether the information has been stored in the memory or not and accessibility is the ability or inability to retrieve information

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    Harper describe motivation of slaves and former slaves by capturing the excitement and sense of independent that came with achieving the literacy. Many teachers‚ missionaries‚ and philanthropists help found hundreds of school for black children and grown-ups. Susie King Taylor for an example taught Union solider sir contraband camps to read and write. Many if the people who helped were abolitionists and former slaves themselves. Slaves who were released from plantations realized that they had to

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    MODELS OF HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE There are four basic models of exchange for health information. These models are the centralized‚ decentralized‚ hybrid model and the health record banking model. Each one of these models has its advantages and disadvantages in different areas such as privacy‚ security‚ interoperability among others. In the centralized model‚ the database is stored in a centralized file and accessed by inquiries. The advantages that we can have in this model is the fast access

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    Michael admits he would be unfaithful to his marriage. He is honest about it‚ but callous. He did not even thought about fighting his desire for other women in respect to his wife‚ everything she has done for him‚ and their marriage as a whole. He already had opinions and desires outside of his marriage that could be consider hurtful enough to any wife to hear‚ and he did not even had the care to choose his words when telling Frances all of those things. When Frances asks him why he does hurt her

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    Discuss the possible consequences of privation. Refer to the Romanian Orphan Studies in your answer. AO1 Privation is the failure to form an attachment‚ this may be due to extremely poor parenting or prolonged stays away from a potential attachment figure. Possible consequences of privation are intellectual retardation‚ anti-social behaviour in later life an inability to form relationships and lack of guilt. Rutter investigated the progress of 111 Romanian Orphans who were brought to Britain for

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    weapons. One of the approaches made by Nixon was when he visited Moscow‚ Russia‚ and signed seven agreements that include space exploration and arms control‚ the discussion of this last topic was made during a series of talks called: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (S.A.L.T). But

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    Abesamis‚ Ma. Regina R. March 9‚ 2011 SOCTEC NO2 What is the purpose of medical diagnosis? Are outcomes of diagnosis always accurate/objective? If not‚ what are the possible limitations of diagnosis as a form of knowledge production? Basically‚ the purpose of medical diagnosis is to determine the illness of the patient. It is based on the clinician’s judgment on what is the patient’s condition. A diagnosis is only formed when enough data are required. There are many types of data

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    Discuss reliability and validity of diagnosis A reliable and valid diagnosis is one which is correctly reasoned from a satisfying premise and agreed upon by psychiatrists using the same diagnosis system. However‚ there are many factors that make the process of determining a diagnosis intricate. For one to obtain a reliable and valid diagnosis‚ one has to be sure that the classification systems themselves are valid and reliable. Because the concept of abnormality is so complex it is particularly

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