quality. Referencing is consistently high standard. | 60% - 69% | 65% | A very good assignment which demonstrates a significant degree of independent criticism and analysis of most major issues. It offers a thorough review and analysis of appropriate materials. Good depth / breadth of reading / research. Very good presentation and referencing. | 50% - 59% | 55% | A good assignment which demonstrates a logical and coherent analysis of most relevant issues and contains some evidence of independent
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Culture is like a pair of glasses through which we perceive the world. It is the way in which we communicate with others‚ it is the way we dance‚ it is the way we eat and it is the way how we express ourselves. It is how we give meaning to the things that we love and the choices that we make. Culture is an important part of my identity‚ my belief system and how I approach life in general. I live in Riga. This city has roads‚ clean water‚ electricity‚ police stations‚ hospitals. But every city has
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Every day we wake up we start making decisions. These decisions vary in complexity. Some are very simple‚ some automatically‚ and some decisions involved a higher degree of processing the information and reasoning. A deficit in reasoning can lead to errors in thinking that influenced the way how people make decisions in life. These errors are called cognitive biases. The term “cognitive bias” was introduced in the early 1970’s by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman‚ which describes how heuristics or
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Contemporary prejudice has become subtler and occasionally reflects unintentional intergroup biases (Monteith et al.‚ 2015). Sometimes these implicit biases have a greater impact on an individual’s discriminatory behavior than explicit biases (Robb & Stone‚ 2016). As a consequence‚ there has been increased judicial consideration for psychological research on implicit biases in legal testimony over the past two decades (Aiken et al.‚ 2013). The most widely used measure for studying implicit social
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How did we become who we are today? Who/what shaped our lives? Truth is‚ there are plenty of things that have caused us to become who we are‚ and most of these things go unnoticed every day. Have you ever sat and thought maybe if this one thing did not happen to me when I was younger‚ I would not be here doing this one thing today? Whether it is in a positive or negative way‚ our childhood shapes our future. Studies have shown that kids‚ who grew up around violence‚ are prone to participate in
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“Are We Born With Our Sexual Identity or Do We Choose It?” Sociology research paper Are you born with your sexual identity or do you choose it ? Identifying your sexual identity comes from a very young age. It starts when you first discover your genitals at months of you being born. Then you chose whether you want to play with stereotyped toys that are identified for boys or girls. After that‚ you learn gender role behavior‚ where you either do things “that boys do” or “that girls do”. Another
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Oprah’s Rise Above Gender Biases. Gender roles and stereotypes have existed since the beginning of time. Universally‚ women struggled to prove their way in a “man’s world.” In the movies Citizen Kane and Network the struggle for women is evident. In Kane the news staff is almost entirely men. In Network‚ the character of Diana Christensen is a head strong‚ determined‚ programmer who was willing to the do what she needed to succeed. Though these movies are fictional‚ the struggle for women is real
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How and why do we age? Ageing is ’The process of growing old’ [1]. This is known information to almost everyone that as we age‚ we show more signs of ageing such as wrinkles or age-related diseases. However‚ the reasons for this is still not fully known and consolidated‚ which is why many theories about ageing exist and scientists are still currently researching this topic. This essay will cover well known theories and biological phenomena on the topic of ageing with critical evaluation in answering
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We see and understanding things not as they are‚ but as we are. Discuss the claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. People grow in different societies‚ in different cultures‚ people have own experience and knowledge. From the beginning of our life we all are different. By the law of nature we cannot be the same. This claim states that we see and understand things not as they are‚ but as we are so we cannot understand or see something objectively (as they are) because we add our opinion
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Wes Moore was one of the few victims of the world that had been part of bad influences‚ a bad childhood‚ and bad memories. He could have made better choices to improve his life‚ but without any parental influence and self confidence‚ his life was negatively impacted. Wes was born in Baltimore‚ with no father present‚ and being part of gangs‚ drugs and sex. Eventually‚ all his actions came back to him and ended up with a life sentence in prison. Wes Moore was born in the city of Baltimore. He
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