noise exposure‚ certain powerful antibiotics‚ meningitis‚ Meniere’s disease‚ acoustic tumors‚ and even the natural decline in age can cause hearing loss. We’ll discuss noise-induced hearing loss here as an example‚ although the cochlear damage that occurs is similar to other types of sensorineural hearing loss. Noise-induced hearing loss‚ or NIHL‚ occurs when your ears are exposed to overly loud sounds. Any sound over 85 decibels is considered to be dangerous to the ears and your hearing. The louder
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Assessing the political environment is an important part in any business decision. Laws and regulations passed by either local‚ regional and central government bodies can affect foreign firms’ operations. Also‚ firms are comfortable assessing the political climates in their home countries. However‚ assessing the political climates in other countries is still problematic. Classification and description of political risks When doing international business‚ the manager may face several types of financial
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Fitzgerald uses symbolism through characters and settings through out the novel in aid of reenforcing the reoccurring theme of moral criminality. Fitzgerald tended to make use of the characters in his romance as symbols‚ in aid of constructing the concern for moral criminality. For example‚ Fitzgerald makes use of Daisy as a spotlight for such moral criminality. In the beginning of the novel‚ daisy is described as an angel; “. . . [her dress] rippling and fluttering as if [she] had just been blown
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Many scholars have attempted to explain criminal behaviour by identifying a genetic trait or other biological causes or indicator for criminality (Cullen and Agnew‚ 2011). Ellis and Walsh (2011) argue that while there is not a single “criminal behaviour” genetic trait‚ there are genetic trait that are associated with crime. They further suggest that these traits might provide evolutionary advantages to their holders in some circumstances. For example‚ traits such as deception and cheating would likely
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INTRODUCTION Criminological theories have rarely been concerned with the analysis of female criminality. Typically criminologists have either been content to subsume discussion of women offenders under ‘general’ theories‚ that is to say they have implicitly assumed the female is dealt with in discussing the male‚ or they have dealt with them exceptionally briefly in the way that other ‘marginal’ or ‘special’ categories are treated. The reason offered for this overwhelming lack of interest is that
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Extract from the 3rd Edition of Lacey‚ Wells and Quick‚ Reconstructing Criminal Law (CUP 2003) Chapter 4 II.a.i. The History of Theft William Blackstone’s Commentaries‚ written in the middle of the eighteenth century‚ represent one of the first systematic expositions of the common law. His volume on criminal offences included a substantial section on ‘offences against private property’: William Blackstone‚ Commentaries on the Laws of England 1765 Vol. IV p.230 ’Simple larciny then is the
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location as supposed to race determine how they area relates with crime. What they meant by this is that certain areas are prone to increased levels of criminality by default it just so happens that African americans and other minorities end up inhabiting these areas as home due to circumstance. Shaw and Mckays research focused primarily on the criminality
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accommodate the number of youths seeking employment. Of particular concern is that countless young people in developing countries like Nigeria will reach employment age within the next decade but the question is: Where is the employment opportunities? Frustration in the search for livelihood heightens the attraction of youths to illicit activities manifesting in social instabilities we observe nowadays. In this essay I also discussed the social and economic consequences of youth unemployment in Nigeria whilst
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Unit 12: Crime & its effects on Society Task 3 P3 – Describe two theories of criminal behaviour and the factors that contribute to them Why does crime happen? For P3‚ learners should describe two theories of criminal behaviour from the following: 1. Biological Genetic Determinism Biological Determinism 2. Sociological Functionalism Marxism Labeling theory The Chicago School Sociological Determination 3. Psychological Psychoanalytical theory Social Learning theory You also need to explain how
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(Chng‚ Chu‚ Zeng‚ Li‚ Ting‚ 2016‚p774). The three-class solution was found reliable in order to identify and distinguish the family classes. Men under the three-class solution were most likely to score poorly on the parenting scale. Families with criminality‚ poor managed families‚ and intact function families resulted in men having the poorest scores throughout the study. This connects back to where males are more likely to be an offender. In all the different classes of families the men were the one
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