Buss: aims and context Current mate preferences are of particular interest to Evolutionary Psychologists as they are thought to demonstrate what types of characteristics were preferred by our ancestors. They also demonstrate the current direction of sexual selection‚ by indicating who is likely to be selected as a mate. These mate characteristics that are heritable will appear more readily in subsequent generations‚ whereas individuals lacking preferred characteristics will not be selected to mate
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emergence of a new‚ secular and individualistic way of thinking. Such ideation perpetuated the talented intellectuals of the time to formulate new ideas‚ and in Niccolo Machiavelli’s case‚ a new way to govern. In his book‚ The Prince‚ Machiavelli uses his “how to guide” to delineate the political theory a prince should use in order to secure his power and govern his people effectively. This piece
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Does Facebook (or other forms of social media) create isolation? 2.46 billion people are connected through social media every single day and the number one social media used worldwide is Facebook; as of 2017. With this number of people on social media‚ every single day‚ we are forgetting about socialising with friends and family. Social media are making more and more people isolated. Social media is creating a number issues in our society and only more and more people are going to sign up and get
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Walsh June 3‚ 2012 Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde’s hopeful and romantic voice welcomes readers to a different point of view on poetry and life. Wilde uses strong and bold words to emphasize what he is truly feeling and to set a tone for the reader. He is a passionate and idealistic writer and isn’t afraid to express real emotion to his audience. His writing truly portrays his characters and refers to his past and real events that he had gone through. Was Oscar Wilde able to capture the meaning of
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An American Singer‚ Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi’s song Up Up and Away lyrics state “in the end they’ll judge me any way so whatever.” That “whatever” at the end is what society creates. People start acting the way that society perceives them to be because they are so irked of being criticized for actions they aren’t responsible of performing. In the book Frankenstein‚ the society had created an image for the Creature‚ calling him a monster‚ even though he wasn’t‚ but eventually he became what the
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corporations to elect political leaders‚ and create a country living far from equal. It is time to transform into something that works‚ to open our minds to the new solution‚ or maybe just leave these ideas behind altogether. Rave and its religious culture has the potential to create a utopia if the “responsible” population of this society chose
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How would a society be if everyone were equal? Kurt Vonnegut gives us a look into a dystopian future where everyone is “equal”. Equalization is achieved by the government enforcing weights for the physically strong‚ masks for the beautiful‚ and loud buzzing ear pieces to make those who have above average intelligence to be dumbed down. This in theory should create the perfect society in which no one has an advantage over anyone. The government is able to keep control over all the citizens with these
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A cartoon‚ drawn by Kevin Siers‚ represents the real life conflict between police officers and the black lives matter movement. In this cartoon‚ the artist displays two people‚ one being a police officer‚ and one being an African American citizen. In this debate there are strong feelings on both sides for different reasons‚ a quote from the huffington post‚ “Instead of feeling protected by police‚ many African Americans are intimidated and live in daily fear that their children will face abuse‚ arrest
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increasing pace‚decreasing pace‚and rapid succession of conflicts to create suspense.The author uses timing words to create suspense. The author uses increasing pace to create suspense by highlighting the amount of danger he is in and his actions. With enemies watching the sniper risked a smoke. ‘Placing the ciggerate between his lips he stuck a match and inhaled the smoke hurriedly’. He is doing it fast because of the risk of being shot and disclosing his location. Plus it is pitch black out so the
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things wrong with it. The book "1984" is based in a dystopian world in 1984. This is the future from when the book was written. Orwell has to use many ideas and very twisted thoughts and nightmares to create this world‚ which seems to become more like reality year by year. An example of the dystopia being created would be the weather note on the first line of the book. "It was a bright cold day in April"‚ this puts forward the idea that that in the time of rebirth (spring‚ dawn of a new year) there
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