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    How to communicate with others: 1.) Look them in the eye 2.) Pay close attention 3.) Introduce yourself 4.) Be courteous 5.) Smile If your goal is to fully understand and connect with the other person‚ listening effectively will often come naturally. If it doesn’t‚ you can remember the following tips. The more you practice them‚ the more satisfying and rewarding your interactions with others will become. Focus fully on the speaker‚ his or her body language‚ and other nonverbal cues. If you’re

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    the study of criminal behavior concerns the extent to which punishment diminishes a convict’s likelihood of committing crimes in the future (Green et al.‚ 2010). Many empirical studies over the years have explored the idea of the deterrence theory‚ but the results are mixed. Some studies suggest that those who are punished more severely become less likely to reoffend; others contend that they become more likely to reoffend; and still others find no relationship between punishment and recidivism

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    was minimal with barely any change. The idea of nonviolent resistance was first thought of by

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    and hence it forms a carbon cycle with no net release of carbon content to the atmosphere. Moreover‚ biofuels contain much lower sulphur content than that of petrol and diesel such that the use of biofuel neither leads to air pollution nor global warming. Thirdly‚ as a renewable energy‚ biofuels provide high sustainable energy resources to the society. Since the availability of biomass resources is widely spread‚ for example‚ biomass resources can be obtained from food‚ plant matters‚ agricultural

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    used: “Her Majesty’s Prison” by Christian Pratt Stripped‚ probed‚ re-dressed and endowed with the status of convict.” Is this what you would want to endure for a simple traffic violation of no seat belt‚ running a red light or dark tinted windows? Or would you prefer a traffic school session or two‚ picking up garbage on a Saturday morning or paying a fine? I would gladly prefer the latter. The prison has a “revolving door” as if welcoming persons to come again. We need to replace this door with job

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    United States jails and prisons are overflowing with individuals convicted of drug and alcohol related crimes. A substantially large portion of those inmates meet the DSM-5 criteria for substance dependence and are even more likely to be habitual offenders as a result of the innate nature of substance dependency. Investigating the long-term effects of court-mandated treatment programs outside of jail and prison could provide valuable insight with the potential to greatly reduce the rate of repeated

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    Complex Sentences   Complex sentences are sentences that have several parts‚ each with a verb‚ and these parts are joined by ‘joining words’ (连词). For example‚ here are two simple sentences: “I know a man. He has five children.” If you join these two sentences by using the relative pronoun (联系代名词) ‘who’‚ it now becomes a complex sentence: “I know a man who has five children.” (By the way‚ ‘who’ is not pronounced with extra word stress here. You only stress this word when it means ‘ 谁?’‚ which

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    according to Chomsky‚ is its creative nature. The last sentence (and‚ in fact‚ this one) have probably never been produced before in the history of the world. the same is true for much of what we say every day. So‚ we do not seem to learn or to speak language by purely imitating other people. How are we able to judge whether a sentence sounds okay? Can we literally have a list of sentences in our mind against which we check each new sentence we hear? Chomsky argues not‚ since our brains are

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    The following is a proposal for the construction and operation of a new jail in Whiteville‚ North Carolina. The current jail was designed for 150 individuals at one given time‚ while on a daily basis‚ there are at least 287 inmates incarcerated‚ which means the jail is way over capacity. Due to the jail being over capacitated‚ the jail can’t meet the minimum standards for a correctional facility. It’s over capacitation creates issues for the inmate to bathroom ratio. The male housing units have 3

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    Research Paper How society would react to modern earthquake‚ if they only believed in myths Earthquakes have been a mystery to humans for thousands of years. They have been speculated and written about. But what if we as twenty first century humans did not understand how earthquakes worked? How would we respond to an earthquake if we only believed that earthquakes were created by angry gods or mischievous animals? In ancient time catfish‚ snakes‚ elephants‚ and turtles were

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