How do people explain their own and other people’s behavior? ‘Behaviour’ is a term defined by psychologists as an act done by an animal in response to any stimulus provided by the outside world. An assumption held by many social psychologists when attempting to explain the reasons behind the action of people’s behaviour is that we try to find certain reasons that explain our own and other people’s action towards an environmental stimulus. This is also known as the theory of attribution‚ ie. We
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1. African-Americans comprise only 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users‚ but are 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America. 2. Studies show that police are more likely to pull over blacks or Latinos than whites. After being arrested‚ African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York. 3. In 2010‚ the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites
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Tick‚ tick‚ tick. Forty minutes had passed since Chief Parker dragged me into the police station though to the rest of the officers‚ it looked like I was there of my own free will. He grabbed my phone from my jacket pocket before leaving me alone in the small interrogation room: four blank concrete walls with a metal table‚ three uncomfortable chairs that were plucked from Hell itself‚ a two way mirror‚ and a table lamp that shined brightly on my face. ’ A camera was perched high in the left corner
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Today‚ many people immigrate to the United States of America in search of the American Dream; freedom‚ equality‚ and the opportunity to achieve their personal goals in life that they could not achieve in their homeland. The American Dream is the pursuit of prosperity and opportunity that drives people to push their own limits and persevere in order to lead successful lives and achieve whatever goals they set. The American Dream is alive because people from other countries continue to immigrate to the
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This means that you will not have to train everyone you can bring in new people as you need to. 2. To Gain Access to New or Emerging Technologies The target may have an excellent product that the buyer can use to fill a hole in its own product line. I think this is an especially important reason when the market is expanding rapidly‚ and the buyer does not have sufficient time to develop the product internally before other competing products take over the market. Also‚ acquired products tend to
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Amish Country Last Thursday‚ the ELI took all the students to Amish country. We all went by bus. We went to an Amish house where we met Mike. Mike made a presentation about Amish life. He showed their clothes. He told us that the Amish came from Germany. He told us that the Amish want to be separate from society. They don’t have electricity‚ so they use lanterns‚ also they don’t have cars they use buggies. I learned many things from the presentation. Firstly‚ the Amish are peaceful people
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all of these points could be very different as well and could cover different theme or style. In “Good Country People” and “Everyday Use” these stories have contrasting some elements‚ such as their points of view and use of symbolism‚ while their similarities in the underlying theme and the setting of these stories reveal a much stronger comparing between the two. The stories “Good Country People” and “Everyday Use” have several similarities between them. One would be the theme that is embedded within
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Irony in “Good Country People” Flannery O’Connor uses characterization‚ and the themes of good versus evil and the psychological and physical problems of the characters‚ to create irony in the story. The characterization of both Mrs. Hopewell and Joy/Hulga creates irony‚ which begins with their names. Then the theme of good versus evil‚ demonstrated by the belief that country people are “good”‚ also creates irony. The story is about a farm owner‚ Mrs. Hopewell‚ her only
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The United States of America is branded as the land of opportunities and a place where anyone can come and make a better life for themselves. Which is why many people choose to immigrate to the U.S. the Center for American Progress reports that “The foreign-born population consisted of 40.7 million people in 2012. Broken down by immigration status‚ the foreign-born population was composed of 18.6 million naturalized U.S. citizens and 22.1 million noncitizens in 2012. Of the noncitizens‚ approximately
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Sarafina In comparison to other countries how much do Americans take for granted? If you hadn’t ever got the chance to watch this movie‚ you might not think that education in other countries was much different from America. There are many people who go to an American school and everyday they complain about how much work they have to do or they even complain about just having to go to school. Well in other countries there are kids that are really happy if they even get the opportunity to go to a
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