Homework 1. Explain how the use of substances alters a person’s state of consciousness‚ including depressants‚ stimulants‚ and hallucinogens. Include in this explanation what happens to the neurotransmitters and body chemicals as well as how you might recognize whether a person at work or in your family is in an altered state of consciousness due to the influence of drugs. Stimulants can be used to speed up the central nervous system making a person fell more alert and aware of their surroundings
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Crime is a social construct Discuss. This composition will look at crime and its different criminological interpretations. Crime is an umbrella word which covers a diverse range of issues and is dependant upon the theoretical stand point of the writer. Although the wordings of the explanations differ‚ the implications are consistent (Newburn‚ 2007. Doherty‚ 2005). Mclaughlin et al (2006) seems the most relevant for the purpose. They separate crime into three key constituent parts. These are harm
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Case Study: “Giving and Receiving on Freecycle.org” Freecycle.org or as nicknamed by users‚ “Freebay” is a great way for individuals to give away items that they no longer want. It is very apparent that this website has achieved such high levels of success and growth in such a short period of time‚ due to the fact that they are different from all other sites. Everyone has become accustomed to a world where nothing is free. Human beings are used to to having to pay for anything they receive
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Exhibit A: Genders are social constructs and you can be anywhere of the spectrum that you want. To examine this sentence‚ we need the exact definition of “construct”. According to dictionary‚ construct as a noun means “an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements‚ typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence”. So‚ we’re talking about subjectivity. Something that has been built on the sole basis of “Common Sense” and doesn’t even have the same meaning in
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1. (Monthly compounding) If you bought a $1‚000 face value CD that matured in nine months‚ and which was advertised as paying 9% annual interest‚ compounded monthly‚ how much would you receive when you cashed in your CD at maturity? PV 1000 Annual interest Rate 0.09 r 0.0075 n 9 1069.560839 Amount at Maturity: $1‚069.56 2. (Annualizing a monthly
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To Whom It May Concern‚ We are all aware of the illnesses that are developing in our community. Obviously‚ this is not genetic because it is attacking various members of our community and has done personal research to link the illnesses to our surrounding environment. I have found information in which the community should be aware. After extensive research‚ I have discovered the symptoms are because of the gas company not following proper procedures while digging in our community. I have spent
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Chapter 15 - Page 442 - Questions #1 and #2 1. What factors bind marriages and families together? How have these factors changed‚ and how has the divorce rate been affected? Some factors which are said to bind families together are children which is the major factor‚ lack of financial resources‚ and religion. Children tend to bind marriages together as most couple with children often time thinks about what it will do to the child if they should divorce. Lamanna‚ M (2011) in the 11th Edition
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Philosophical Construct Legal justice is concerned with the way in which law distributes penalties for wrongdoing‚ or allocates compensation in the case of injury or damage. Justice in this sense clearly involves the creation and enforcement of a public set of rules‚ but to be ‘just’ these rules must themselves have a moral underpinningThe issue of justice lies at the heart of questions about legitimacy and orderly existence‚ determining whether citizens are willing to accept the law as binding.
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com/researchregisters The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0309-0566.htm The construct ``lifestyle ’ ’ in market segmentation The behaviour of tourist consumers Ana M. Gonzalez  University of Leon‚ Leon‚ Spain and   Laurentino Bello University of La Coruna‚ La Coruna‚ Spain Ä Ä The construct ``lifestyle ’ ’ 51 Received January 1999 Revised September 1999 Accepted June 2000 Keywords Lifestyles‚ Market segmentation
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outcome (increased class participation). Validity is in four types and these are: Conclusion‚ Construct‚ Internal and external validity. Conclusion validity tries to find out the relationship between a program and the observed outcome. For instance‚ a connection between Re-entry policy and increased failure rate in schools. Construct validity looks at the extent to which a test measures what it claims or intend to measure. Internal validity refers to how well an experiment has been done and the extent
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