personality. Aristotle says that virtue is something that we acquire and are not just born with‚ people are not inherently good or bad‚ but become good or bad according to the habits they develop. Aristotle said that a virtue was a ’Golden Mean’ in between to vices. These ’Vices’ are two extremes of a scale at opposite ends‚ one of excess and one of deficiency. For example the vices would be shamelessness and shyness‚ and the virtue modesty. Another example of this would be rudeness and a sense of humour
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questions: What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past? * The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse society‚ I have learned new concepts of living‚ new ways to think
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UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY Defining DIVERSITY Definitions of diversity range from distributive concerns based on the traditional categories of race‚ ethnicity and gender to the inclusion of a vast array of differences in age‚ sexual orientation‚ disability‚ employment status‚ tenure‚ function‚ educational background‚ lifestyle‚ religion‚ values and beliefs in addition to race‚ ethnicity and gender. In the recent CIPD report‚ Diversity: Stacking up the evidence (Anderson and Metcalf 2003)
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Explain the concepts associated with nutritional health In order to answer this question it is important to have a structure‚ starting with food which is defined as‚ “any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink‚ or that plants absorb‚ in order to maintain life and growth.” The food that we eat makes up our diet. Nutrients can be described as “a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.” Nutrients can then be split up into 2 groups‚
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Understanding and Celebrating Cultural Diversity in America ` Many people mistakenly use phrases such as “American culture‚” “white culture‚” or Western culture‚” as if such large‚ common‚ and homogenous cultures exist in the United States today. These people fail to acknowledge the presence of (1)cultural diversity‚ or the presence of multiple cultures and cultural differences within a society. In reality‚ many different cultural groups comprise the United States
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thinking‚ beliefs‚ knowledge‚ art crafts‚ morals ‚ and customs. In early childhood settings educators regularly come across children that belong to a different race‚ ethnicity or religion . (Ramsey‚ 2004). Children that come from a different cultural and linguistic background can have a positive or negative experience depending on the environment and the teaching practices that early childhood educators provide for them. When children get to know their own culture and see it that it is respected
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Explain the purpose of an operating system Process Management A multitasking operating system may give the appearance that a lot of processes are running concurrently/simultaneously‚ this is not true as only one process can be executing at any one time on a single-core CPU‚ unless on a multi-core or similar technology. Processes are often called tasks in embedded operating systems. The function of the task or process is something that takes up time‚ as opposed to memory‚ which is ’something that
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explaining human behaviour. Many psychological approaches try to explain human behaviour and as to whether behaviour is innate‚ nature‚ or it’s learnt through experiences from our environment‚ nurture. The behaviourist approach is a theory that all behaviours are learnt and that individuals are born with a tabula rasa‚ a blank slate. They claim that individual’s behaviour is determined by the environment in which they live in; this has been called environmental determinism. This social learning
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EXPLAIN THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION OF THE DREAMING‚ THE LAND AND IDENTITY‚ TALKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DIVERSITY OF THE DREAMING FOR ABRIGINAL PEOPLES. The Aboriginal people’s inextricable connection to the Land and the natural world provides a link between the people and the Dreaming. This untieable connection dictates their way of life‚ their Laws‚ their beliefs‚ their values and the way in which they treat others individually. This connection has lived and grown within every Aboriginal of different
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Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. Today we use the term safeguarding instead of child protection because it covers a much broader range. These changes were influenced by the first Joint Chief Inspectors’ safeguarding report 2002 and formalised in the Every Child Matters legislation outlined in the Children Act 2004. By safeguarding a child or young person we ensure they get the very best of the opportunities available to them for them
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