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    First and foremost‚ deviant acts are utterly relative; it’s not possible to isolate certain acts and find them universally condemned by all societies as deviant. Deviant acts‚ furthermore‚ are relative to time and place. That is‚ behavior–past and present‚ and the across the cultural spectrum–in one society may not be deviant in another society. For example: Was Nelson Mandela a deviant? For years‚ the ruling white-minority party in apartheid South Africa viewed him as a "dangerous political deviant"

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    Discussion In terms of the relative wildness maps ability to help identify suitable areas of rewilding‚ its benefits are limited. It helps identify the perceived wildest areas but the idea of rewilding is to improve areas that are not already ‘wild’ to benefit biodiversity. The idea of rewilding also has so much more factors than just the current wildness of the landscape as shown in the second part of the study. It can‚ however‚ be useful when used alongside these factors. When creating the wildness

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    Theory of Evolution One of the greatest questions of all time is: "Where did we all come from?" One of the most popular answers to this question is creationism‚ the idea that everything was created by a higher being. Another popular idea is evolution‚ the idea that all living organisms descended from a less complex organism. Evolution possesses a new way of thinking that is being greatly accepted by the scientific community‚ but not by pious groups of people. Creation and evolution are diametrically

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    RELATIVES IN ARISTOTLE ’S CATEGORIES : RESEARCH FOR A DISCRIMINATING CRITERION In the treatise of Categories‚ after enumerating the ten categories in Chapter IV‚ Aristotle undertakes to examine each of the principle four in a separate Chapter. On the first reading‚ it seems difficult to understand Aristotle ’s goal in this detailed study. The unity of the inquiry is not really evident: Aristotle tests certain criteria (contrariety‚ a more and a less‚ simultaneity) for each category. Nevertheless

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    Journal 2 I have always been interested in evolution‚ probably due to my innate inability to accept what people say on “face value”. I believe (as I have taught my children) to question anything and everything which would explain my passion and interest in the evolution of psychology. Evolutionary psychologists use various methods to study how evolution affects psychology. Deductive and comparative methods are the two most commonly used methods because they allow psychologists to study something

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    The theory of evolution‚ formalized by Charles Darwin‚ is as much theory as is the theory of gravity‚ or the theory of relativity. Unlike theories of physics‚ biological theories‚ and especially evolution‚ have been argued long and hard in socio-political arenas. Even today‚ evolution is not often taught in primary schools. However‚ evolution is the binding force of all biological research. It is the unifying theme. In paleontology‚ evolution gives workers a powerful way to organize the remains of

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    morality is relative" . Critically asses this claim Religious Education 23/04/2012 Views on Morality are varied and changed throughout different cultures and societies. Morality in the definition of the word‚ is the natural sense of right and wrong. This sense is usually gained from the surroundings on a person as a young child or from influences in a person ’s life. The statement that Morality is relative can be looked at in many different ways. Morality to be seen in a relative manner is

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    The more advanced technology becomes‚ the more it seems to have control over our lives. According to Lee Siegel‚ "we shop‚ work‚ play‚ love‚ search for information‚ seek to communicate with each other and sometimes with the world online. We spend more time online than ever before. Yet people are not arguing about this startling new condition." I believe that people have too readily embraced technology‚ seeking only the benefits‚ and ignoring the many downfalls. "It does not matter if your home

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    The series of events prompting muscle contraction is started some place in the central nervous system‚ either as willful action from the brain or as reflex action from the spinal cord. Beginning with depolarization at the neuromuscular junction‚ the depolarizing impulse discharges acetylcholine from the nerve ending. Which then diffuses over the neuromuscular junction (a chemical synapse formed by the contact between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber). At the motor end plate‚ the acetylcholine joins

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    relationship with those of America‚ though separated from that continent by an open space of ocean‚ between 500 and 600 miles in width." At this early stage of his life‚ along with graduating college Darwin soon began collecting evidence for his theory of Evolution and natural selection. While on his journey Darwin made many observations. They were mainly about the different species he saw on the Galapagos Islands. Each island had a different variation of birds. He noticed that the beak sizes of the

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