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    Identify the different substances which individuals might use‚ how they are used and their likely effects. Abused substances produce some form of intoxication that alters judgment‚ attention‚ perception‚ or physical control. Psychoactive drugs can be categorised into three broad groups: 1 Stimulants: Amphetamines‚ Cocaine‚ Crack‚ Ecstasy‚ Anabolic steroids 2 Depressants: Cannabis‚ Alcohol‚ Benzodiazepines GHB etc. 3 Hallucinogens: LSD‚ Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)‚ Skunk. Drugs also have street

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    Venice are two of most well-known plays of Shakespeare. Among the shinning characters of the plays‚ two most attractive women characters are most popular‚ Ophelia and Portia. For a long time‚ people consider the tragedy of Ophelia is because the “crulty” of Hamlet(Schlegel‚ 1973) and the happy ending of Portia is due to her intelligence. While no matter it’s the crulty of Hamlet or it’s the intelligence of Portia‚ the results of the two fair ladies come up with a premise: they live in different environments

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    DESCRIBE TWO OF THE ORGANISATIONAL METAPHORS STUDIED AND DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EACH. This essay explores the concept of studying organisation styles metaphorically‚ particularly as perceived by Gareth Morgan (1986). The essay begins by describing two of the organisational metaphors‚ specifically the mechanistic organisation and the organisation as a brain being the most diverse of the metaphors used. It then reviews the interpretation of theorists writing on the subject

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    English  120  -­  013 Beauty  Myth  by  Naomi  Wolf Page  3.  “This  embodiment  is  an  imperative  for  women  and  not  for  men‚  which  situation  is  necessary  and natural  because  it  is  biological‚  sexual‚  and  evolutionary:  Strong  men  battle  for  beautiful  women‚  and beautiful  women  are  more  reproductively  successful.” I  found  this  quote  interesting‚  but  I  didn’t  understand  exactly  what  Wolf  meant  by  this. Page  4.  “The  beauty  myth  is  not  about  women  at

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    MONGOLIA The Role of Culture in International Business Culture is “the set of customs‚ values‚ beliefs‚ behaviours and traditions that have developed among groups of people over decades and centuries. It is influence and defined by geography‚ language‚ religion‚ history‚ war‚ food‚ clothing‚ climate and other variables that not only make cultures unique‚ but also facilitate comparisons”. (FITT‚ 2008) 2011 Jessica Garant & Lynne Annis INT 100 Research Report 4/21/2011 MONGOLIA

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    The film Cut from Different Cloths explores the parallel universe between the United States and Afghanistan regarding gender issues. Coming from the United States‚ Serena has had a wide variety of opportunities due to the freedoms she is allowed. Women are able to participate in public life‚ wear the clothes they like‚ marry who they choose‚ and get a fair education. Unfortunately‚ most of this is not true for the women in the Middle East. I don’t think that Serena could have ever prepared herself

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    “Examine the key features of the divine command theory and identify its weaknesses.” (21) The view that moral rules are true by virtue of being commanded by God is called the divine command theory.  It is a deontological theory and claims that sentences such as "charity is good" mean the same thing as sentences such as "God commands charity”. If you believe that moral actions are good or bad because they are commanded or forbidden‚ certain things must follow. First‚ if they had not been commanded

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    King Lear inspires many philosophical questions; chief among them is the existence of divine justice. This concept was particularly important during the Elizabethan era‚ because religion played such a significant role in everyday life. Religious leaders directed people to expect that they would have to answer to a higher authority‚ expressing some hope that good would triumph and be rewarded over evil. But throughout King Lear‚ good does not triumph without honorable characters suffering terrible

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    you about my favorite author. Dante Alighieri is the most important Italian author and one of the two or three most influential writers in Western literature. When Dante wrote the Divine Comedy between 1307 and 1321‚ nearly all European literature was written in Latin‚ which meant that it could only be read by the highly educated‚ representing‚ at most‚ a small percent of the population.   The Divine Comedy was the first significant literary work to be written in the “vernacular”‚ the language of

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    behavior that has a different meaning another culture in. Provide a complete description of the action and what it means in both cultures Gesture and behavior has a big differences in features and differences in the world. Every time we are taking a trip to another country we try to discover as much as possible information about a country where we are travel to. Every time when we are going to another country we should know that in different countries gestures are different. Many gestures are interpreted

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