physiologist Arnold Adolph Berthold and Dr. Leopold Ruzicka‚ steroids have been advancing athlete’s physical performance. When people hear the word Steroids‚ the automatic response is always negative. As well as illegal‚ steroids are still being used even with all the restrictions and that it is banned. Coupled with words like juicing‚ freak‚ meathead‚ and monster is used to describe people using steroids. Positive results have resulted from steroids including their impact on bodybuilding‚ baseball‚ and the
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Some kids join gangs because they need to feel "acceptance‚ excitement‚ to earn money‚ peer pressure‚ protection‚ to socialize and etc. " (S.A.P.D) If kids have nothing better to do or don’t feel like they mean anything at home they are going to find mischief to get into because one way or another someone will notice them. Many minority groups have this problem because there family members have a tough time trying to live so they
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines‚ sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover。” Mark Twain When you travel the world‚ you have the opportunity to experience different cultures and meet new people. It is inevitable that through these experiences you will learn a lot about yourself. Who you are as a person and what you want out of life might very
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are influenced by their family‚ culture‚ and society. Individuals have free will‚ but because of their influences they are encouraged to choose what family‚ society‚ or their culture tells them what to do. It is up to the individual to either go with or against their influences. For example‚ if they do not agree with something from their religion they have the option to go against it or stop practicing that religion. Internally each individual has the ability to make their own decisions‚ but external
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the dangers of cults have become severe over the past years and have caused thousands of deaths due to the influence of cults members and leaders. Cults are able to gain members‚ due the fact that people in actuality do not know it is a cult they are joining. After joining a cult‚ some people still do not even understand that they are actually in a cult. Cults are something a person may read about or see on TV‚ but to have the actuality of knowing that a person has joined a group is shocking. It
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Why do good people do bad things? (750 words) In this essay I will talk about the torturing of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. I will also write about the Stanley Milgrim Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. All of these relate to one of the topics we have covered this term. There is an excellent example of uniforms influencing power in the Stanford Prison experiment which took place in1971‚ it was lead by Prof Zimbardo1 (see footnote) in which a group of students were selected to act as prison
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Discrimination is the unfair treatment of people due to their race‚ age‚ religion‚ national origin‚ or sex. People discriminate for different reasons. The first theory is social transmission; people learn discrimination through social transmissions of prejudices. The second theory is similarity attraction hypothesis (byrne); people like other people who are like themselves based on exposure. The third theory is social identification and categorization (tajfel and turner); people feel like their being treated
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Thurber (1894-1961) Funny how people despise platitudes‚ when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944) Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960) The price one pays for pursuing any profession‚ or calling‚ is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin (1924-1987) Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne Roe (1904-1991) The people who think they are happy should
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You probably believe that most people attend college. There is a good chance that you think that it is natural to be educated. It seems to be true that a college degree has replaced a high school education for most job/career purposes today. Therefore‚ you may be surprised to know the answers to the following questions. First‚ what percent of the U.S. population has a college degree today? Second‚ we live in an increasingly global world‚ so what percent of the world population has a college degree
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Stereotypes are the way people use to identify and shape others’ characterizations. In today’s society‚ people like to use stereotypes to identify others because they are unable or unwilling to get along with others and then know them. They often get information from others or historical experiences. As the social psychologist Claude Steele states‚ “ Stereotypes are one way by which history affects present life.” He states people often use stereotypes‚ but they don’t know the effects about using
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