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    Summarise and discuss the presentations of mental health in the two newspaper articles given in Appendix 1. In this essay‚ I will summarise how both newspaper articles in Appendix 1 present mental health. I will also compare and contrast the articles with each other‚ as well as compare them to what I know about mental health and the history behind it including psychopharmaceuticals and psychotherapies. The first article‚ titled ‘six in ten of us have faced mental issues such as stress or depression’

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    embryos was restricted to a maximum of 14 days after their creation via in-vitro fertilisation. Despite the former inability to reach this limit‚ the innovations of new biotechnologies have acted in junction to advance the human understanding of eugenics. Evidently‚ this has propelled scientists and researchers across the globe to prolong the lifespan of designed embryos by a substantial period of time2. This milestone has sparked the controversial debate regarding the extension of the 14-day policy

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    ‘Dystopia is merely a utopia from a different point of view’. Discuss this statement in relation to two pertinent literary or filmic examples. The following essay proposes to consider the concepts of dystopia and utopia‚ analysing the ways in which they can be deemed to constitute the same phenomenon understood from a different point of view. For the purpose of perspective‚ we intend to consider the problem from the standpoint of H.G. Wells’ A Modern Utopia (1905) and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New

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    Eugenics was the idea of racial cleansing and that pure white blood was the superior blood. The idea encouraged men like Hitler to kill anyone who was not pure white and convinced himself that anyone who wasn’t‚ was the cause of the world’s problems.Scientific

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    This  was  known  as  “eugenics”  and  centred  on  the  idea  that  the  human   race  can  be  improved  by  selective  breeding.  Franz  Boas‚  said  to  be  the  founder  of   American  anthropology  and  Mead’s  professor‚  was  bitterly  opposed  to  eugenics‚   he  stood  firmly  on  the  side  of  culture‚  rejecting  the  research

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    According to Discover Magazine natural disasters‚ black holes‚ and the reversal of Earth’s magnetic field could destroy man-kind. However‚ in C.S. Lewis’s the abolition of man Lewis discusses what he thinks will cause the destruction of Man. Lewis says that the destruction of Man will be when Man has control over himself and future generations‚ and when Man does not follow the principles of the Tao; however‚ the Tao is based on natural instincts which is what Man follows once he is emancipated from

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    of experimenting. Assuming‚ of course‚ they can physically live with those consequences at all. From the topic of Hitler’s reign and the catastrophic results‚ should we not have learnt that discrimination against the disadvantaged and the use of eugenics is

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    The group facilitation of Jaeger’s and Bowman’s Understanding Disability was well executed. The groups’ use of games during the presentation to test students’ pre- and post- knowledge of disability policy was an innovative use of learning tools that engaged the class. The discussion of the history of federal disability policies was accurate and laid a foundation for the ensuing discussions about how social workers can play a critical role in addressing the injustice many differently abled Americans

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    Simply asking for assistance? I’m sure there are some of those‚ but they’re not the official "Black Lives Matter" movement. (So far as such a thing can be said to exist in a real sense. It seems to be more structured than the Tea Party‚ Occupy Wall Street‚ or the Alt Right movement.) The official Black Lives Matter movement is self-destructive‚ socialist‚ and explicitly anti-family. They quixotically riot and protest legitimate police violence but ignore many of the real abuses that are occurring

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    it advocates. Secondly‚ since PPB has its theoretical foundation in the notion of impersonal harm (Bennett 2009‚ 266)‚ and requires parents to become complacent with oppression of minority groups‚ it unavoidably parallels the motives of the “old” eugenics of the 1930’s (Sparrow 2007‚ 51). Finally‚ Savulescu not only over exaggerates the moral obligation parents have toward their children in his account of PPB‚ but also fails to adequately prove that his believed moral obligation truly exists‚ and

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