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    A geopolitical community is a community‚ which is either man-made or surrounded by natural boundaries. It is considered a traditional point of view about communities. Man-made boundaries could be the towns where we live‚ work‚ or go to school. Natural boundaries could be the land formations that separate and isolate groups of people (Maurer & Smith 2008). The geopolitical community I live in is Nassau County‚ Long Island in New York. Nassau County is made up of many suburbs and towns and is located

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    “The Swimmer” is a short story written by the author John Cheever. This interesting and erratic short story is about the main character Neddy Merrill. Neddy Merrill is an ostensibly light hearted‚ vigorous‚ happy and youthful man in an affluent community‚ who decides one summer afternoon that he will swim his way home from a cocktail party through the array of public and private swimming pools scattered throughout his neighborhood. As the story evolves‚ it becomes clear that Neddy’s journey may represent

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    The Review of Related Literature The review of related literature is an essay that should show why your research needs to be carried out‚ how you came to choose certain methodologies and theories to work with‚ and how your work adds to the research already carried out by others. Divide your review into two main parts: 1. Introduction This is where you define or identify the general topic‚ issue‚ or area of concern‚ and let the reader understand the context of your research. Point

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    Soon after birth‚ infants are accessed by behaviors such as motor‚ reflexes‚ adaptation‚ and responsiveness. Newborn’s reflexes are their involuntary and automatic respond to a stimulus and are basic for survival. For example‚ the rooting reflex is when the baby turns its head toward the direction of a stimulus to the cheek. This reflex facilitates the sucking reflex in order for the newborn to receive nutrients. Another sensory stimulation is bright lights which will cause the eye-blink reflex.

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    Discuss how art can be used to reflect‚ promote‚ or challenge cultural beliefs. Art‚ throughout the times have reflected‚ promoted and challenged the cultural beliefs of many different societies. To reflect a culture or society the artwork must create or suggest a particular impression of that era. To promote the cultural beliefs of a society the artwork must encourage and support the beliefs. For the artwork to challenge the beliefs it must question tradition. Gislebertus and Michelangelo promote

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    Restorative Justice and the Community Restorative Justice is a somewhat different approach to justice. It is different from Punishment justice in the fact that it focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders‚ rather than punishing the offenders with little to no consideration of the victims or the community. Victims take a more active role in the process while offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions and figure out ways to restore the community to a better state. In the

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    How community benefits teenagers How community benefits teenagers As everybody knows that teenager is a sensitive phase of grown up. They eager to try everything by themselves with full of energy and curiosity. They need for independence‚ testing authority‚ and separate identity by people around them. So as the most important thing for all parents is how to carefully guide and supervise them. The problem is that all teenagers try hard to get avoid from their parents so community could help parents

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    How do Charles‚ William‚ and Marcie reflect John Nash’s personality? “Its not that I’m so smart‚ it’s just that I stay in problems longer” –Albert Einstein. Einstein explains that it is not only having intelligence but also that he shows his perseverance with problems. Both John Nash and Einstein are examples of geniuses in life that with their innovative ideas were able to accomplish great accolades in their own field of work. Still‚ John had a serious problem‚ his mental sickness of schizophrenia

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    In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the people of the community gave up person freedoms to achieve a utopian community where everyone was equal. Freedoms given up where pick your job‚ pick how many kids want‚ and individuality. But when became the Receiver of memories he change the community’s future. Picking your job was given up so each job had an equal amount of people. Also each job had an equal amount of help. This was not worth it‚ because if the people were not good at their jobs it wouldn’t be fun

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    be alone. Many people in today’s society would agree that homelessness isn’t a good thing; so‚ how come the majority of cities aren’t doing anything about the 500‚000 people living on the streets just in the United States? Lots of people are misinformed about what homelessness really means to the community. These topics that the population should be properly informed about include: actions that communities have already done for the homeless‚ what actions don’t help‚ things an average person could do

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