1.5 Rational Radicalism..............Why Do People Become Terrorists? Most studies of the causes of Islamism offer a grievance based explanation implicitly rooted in functionalist social psychology accounts of mass behaviour‚ which view collective action as derived from exogenous structural strains that create individual frustration and motivation for deviant social behaviour. Structural strains such as modernization‚ industrialization‚ economic crisis cause psychological discomfort which in turn
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There are numerous reasons why people leave their beloved homes to move to foreign places where they try to build up a new life. In their book The Age of Migration‚ Castles and Miller (2009) structure such motives in push and pull factors. Aspects that push people to leave their places could be poor living conditions in their home country‚ non or little perspective for work and political pressure‚ to name but a few. On the other hand‚ motives such as demand for work‚ better chances to gain economic
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Some people may say I’m not as optimistic as others‚ I think it’s how you look at me. I’m not one to jump at any challenge‚ but if I think it will be worth it in the end I will try my hardest. To try to change this theory in others‚ how they look at things‚ is a little harder. People get set in their ways and get lazy. In fact this generation is set in their way of thinking‚ because it seems everything is just handed to them. But to push them to want to achieve and succeed and making them understand
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"Why do people resort to violence?" "Who shot me? You punks didn’t finish; now you’re about to feel the wrath of a menace‚ I hit em’ up." A quote from late Tupac Shakur and most young men’s anthem and golden rule they live by. Each factor of a person’s life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. Peer pressure‚ drugs and alcohol‚ lack of intelligence‚ negligence in the home‚ revenge‚ and abuse can cause psychological problems. When the accumulation of negative factors
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For millions of years people have lived in areas where two different plates meet. In theses types of areas it is very common for earthquakes to happen and for volcanoes to form. So why if these are such dangerous places to live do people continue to settle here? One reason may be that people believe that the types of natural disasters that are possible will never affect them in their lifetime. It is impossible to tell when a plate movement will occur. Some people are willing to take the chance that
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where crowds of people‚ many cars‚ building and different types of business can be found. The place where luxury and light attracts people. The various reasons why people live in a big city are for the excitement‚ the opportunity‚ as well as for the modernized life. Firstly‚ people live in a big city for the excitement. For example‚ there are a lot of social places in the big cities like restaurant‚ museums‚ stadiums‚ movie theatres‚ amusement parks‚ clubs and school ; where people have different
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The reason why people resist change. (1) Loss of status or job security in the organization. 失去现在的位置和工作的保障 It is not our nature to make changes that we view as harmful to our current situation. In an organizational setting‚ this means employees‚ peers‚ and managers will resist administrative and technological changes that result in their role being eliminated or reduced. From their perspective‚ your change is harmful to their place in the organization! Forcing the change has its place. This approach
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Ben Benmore How does Dickens present childhood in "Great Expectations"? In Victorian times‚ children had a very suppressive upbringing; "spare the rod and spoil the child" was a common motto. Children were treated poorly and unfairly‚ they were expected to be seen and not heard. In "Great Expectations"‚ Pip is treated very harshly by his sister‚ Mrs Joe‚ "...she had brought me up by hand...and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand". This shows that Pip is hit by Mrs Joe‚ the use of the adjectives
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INTRO: Money fluctuates within a person’s life time; however‚ money also rules the world. It can control whether or not one is going to be comfortable in life or forced to scrape at the edge with a spoon. It can bring out the worst in someone as well. Oliver Broudy writes an article how money can change a person‚ he says‚ “In fact‚ money can relieve us of even our most deeply held principles with the bored ease of an usher taking a ticket‚” (Broudy). In the world today there are three different
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Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? I think people take drugs because there trying to escape or forget about something in their lives. And when they take drugs they don’t have to worry about anything that is bothering them. They also don’t have to face anything that is bothering them because there not ready or don’t wont to so they get high. Medical literature indicates
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