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    A rose symbolize a beauty. Beauty that comes with kindness‚ softness and also calmness. A rose is a very beautiful flower and also expensive. In this poem‚ it could symbolizes as opportunity or something that you really wish for. The first stanza talking about the abandoned‚ wrecked house. The house is dirty( line littered) Have none doors but the wind ever closes. It looks like the house is haunted‚ and frightening. But it also seem so mystery because it stands in old garden of old-fashioned

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    Northeastern Political Science Association Power‚ Causation & Explanation Author(s): Terence Ball Reviewed work(s): Source: Polity‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2 (Winter‚ 1975)‚ pp. 189-214 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3234201 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 00:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that

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    Discuss two or more psychological explanations for institutional aggression. The importation model is a dispositional theory which states that an individual would bring in – import – characteristics from outside of prison which lead them to be aggressive in daily life. This then leads to aggression while incarcerated. Cheeseman said that men have a certain way of behaving‚ probably why they ended up in prison to begin with‚ which they then apply to their new setting. Irwin and Cressey found 3 subcultures

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    evaluate biological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by distorted thinking‚ impaired emotional responses‚ poor interpersonal skills and a distortion of reality. It is the most common of psychotic disorders that‚ in most countries around the world‚ affects around 1 per cent of the population. In terms of explanations for the disorder‚ two central types of explanations arise – psychological explanations and biological explanations. Whereas psychological

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    Personal Identity Need Not An Explanation Introduction Personal identity seeks to investigate who you are‚ what you are‚ and to give an individual a sense of self. However‚ it is difficult to explain exactly what personal identity is. There are many theories and criteria that seek to pinpoint what exactly personal identity consists of‚ some imply that we are wholly material things; others imply that we are partly immaterial and partly material. There are some theories such as psychological continuity

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    Biological Explanations of Crime Biological Explanations of Crime Crime Statistics from the Chicago Police Department Biological Explanations of crime Cesare Lombroso William Sheldon Neurological Defects Conclusion Biological Explanations of Crime In society today‚ crime rates are increasing at alarming rates. For decades‚ extensive amounts of research have been collected and analyzed in attempts to find out why people commit crime. In the city of Chicago‚ according

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    D/E explanations of Anorexia Nervosa (24 marks) Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a type of eating disorder characterised by extreme loss of weight and anxiety associated with food and weight gain. The 4 major symptoms of AN are body weight 85% or less of normal weight for age and height‚ distorted perception of body image (thinness is vital to self-esteem)‚ intense fear of being overweight or putting on weight and amenorrhoea (the loss of 3 consecutive periods). There is the biological and psychological

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    The biological explanation for Anorexia Nervosa focuses on the role of neurotransmitters. It suggests disturbances in the levels of serotonin and dopamines are characteristic of anorexia. Bailer et al compared serotonin activity in women recovering from restricting anorexia with those recovering from purging type anorexia with a healthy control group. They found that the group recovering from purging type anorexia had higher serotonin activity. They also found the highest levels of serotonin in women

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    Discuss one or more Biological Explanation for Schizophrenia The biological theory on Schizophrenia is a determinism theory which states that Schizophrenia is caused by our genetics and things that are involved in our bodies. The biological theory states that the cause of Schizophrenia is due to issues such as our genes‚ and dopamine levels‚ and therefore it can be cured by looking at these issues. The first biological explanation I will look at is the genetic theory of Schizophrenia. There

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    Psychological Topics 17 (2008)‚ 2‚ 247-263 Original Scientific Article – UDC – 616.89-008.441.42 159.015.7 Evolutionary Explanations of Eating Disorders Igor Kardum‚ Asmir Gračanin‚ Jasna Hudek-Knežević University of Rijeka‚ Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology Abstract This article reviews several most important evolutionary mechanisms that underlie eating disorders. The first part clarifies evolutionary foundations of mental disorders and various mechanisms leading to

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