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    Ambition: the Positives and Negatives William Shakespeare’s Macbeth begins with three witches echoing “fair is foul and foul is fair‚” (I‚i‚12) which is exactly how we first see the play’s main character‚ Macbeth. Macbeth is told by the witches that he will one day become king. The fair and valiant warrior‚ Macbeth‚ puts himself above all others and turns to a path of darkness‚ murdering the existing king for power‚ then ruthlessly killing anyone else seen as a threat to his reign. Eventually‚ the

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    strategies to promote positive behavior. This is based on the assumption that all behavior (negative and positive) is learned and‚ therefore‚ that acceptable behavior can be learned. It is also predicated on the belief that behavior is contextual‚ so children can be taught to behave in a certain way in the school context. Acceptable behavior is then reinforced in a school and classroom climate which is supportive of positive behavior. Among these strategies‚ teachers use positive and negative reinforcement

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    Week Six - Perfectionism: Positive or Negative? Perfectionism is a personality trait characterized by a person’s determination for faultlessness and a person’s will to set extremely high performance values. Many educators and parents view this as negative when their students or children must be perfectionists. Our society has even viewed perfectionism as a negative term. Research has stated that schools and educators have applied pressure to gifted students to attain high outcomes. Silverman

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    Transcendentalism; Positive or Negative Transcendentalism is a social and philosophical movement that taught five tenets of how to live life. Those tenets being; Everything reflects the divine soul‚ God is in nature and man‚ use your intuition to relate to God and nature‚ be self-reliant and express your individualism‚ and be spontaneous and seize the day. Thoreau and Emerson reflect all of these tenets in their poems‚ and they’re shown in the character Mr. Keating in the movie Dead Poets Society. He teaches

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    Negative Effects of Industrial Revolution were huge and have huge impacts on society today. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because more jobs were available‚ it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor‚ little to no education and pollution from factories. There were many downsides to child labor. “I am at work in a spinning room tending four sides of warp which is one girl’s work

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    Throughout the 1920s and ‘30s Urban populations augmented greatly in Cities (rather than living on farms)‚ affecting jobs‚ transportation‚ housing which have many positives effects during this time‚ but also many negative effects changing life during this time period. During the 1920s urbanization was becoming about impacting lives of many citizens and noncitizens living in America. For the first time more people were living in cities than farms‚ especially immigrants. When immigrants were coming

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    capable of shaping these civilizations. Geography shaped the Chinese Civilization by providing a stable food source and by isolating it from the West. Stable Food Source China’s geography has provided a stable food source‚ which has given positive and negative effects to the population. Since food was available‚ the Chinese were allowed to explore other careers‚ such as artisans and alchemists‚ which lead to many techhnological advantages and advancements. This consistent food source was fed by the rivers

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    their genetics. Being a criminal‚ mental retardation‚ insanity‚ and rebelliousness is what was consider dysfunctional. In order to control this people believed that reproduce should be controlled. There were two types of eugenics system positive and negative. The positive eugenics wanted all the healthy

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    Evaluate the positive and negative effects of globalization in China Globalization‚ which is the process of enabling financial and investment markets to be operated widely and internationally‚ usually refers to the increasing global relationships of culture‚ people‚ and economic activities (Simon. J‚ 2002). It is generally used to represent economic globalization including the global distribution of the production of goods and services‚ through reduction of barriers to international trade such

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    of a response occurring again. (Slavin‚ 2006). It is extremely important to remember that both positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement are processes that strengthen a behaviour; that is‚ they both increase the probability that the behaviour will occur in the future. Positive and negative reinforcement are distinguished only by the nature of the consequence that follows the behaviour. Positive reinforcement occurs when the occurrence of a behaviour is then followed by the addition of a

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