Finally, many theorists believed that the theory was too vague and unable to be tested. ... Although Hirschi's theory could be tested other theorist argued that Hirschi did not completely explain how the different bonds were interdependent. Hirschi also failed to test the interrelations empirically. ... When Bell became an older child, she strangled to death two little boys in Scotswood. ...

• Word Count: 1397
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Personally I have found that everyday can be a challenge because new social situations arise that I have never encountered and my social intelligence is put to the test. ... While this was mostly the case there were key instances that there was something deeper going on, such as a big project due or a test coming up. ... In the novel Hazel has brain cancer and has accepted that death is inevitable, but she does not use this as a way to be excused from social norms. ... The definition given for social intelligence through the strength finder test is that of a person who is conscious of others f...

• Word Count: 1466
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After the death of the leader this type of authority is at risk of disappearing because the almost-magical aura surrounding the leader is difficult to replace. ... Finally, they may yet choose certain 'ritual tests' and the one to pass these tests will be the new leader. ...

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Slaves began to work at a very young age and usually were separated from their parents most of them continued to work until their deaths. ... We have a come to know that every individual lives, from one generations to the next in society, that lives out a biography and that he lives it out within some historical sequence"(the sociological imagination page 5 b).I think is this a example of social structures that someone lives knowing that they don't get hired for a job because someone else was giving to it, or like the sat the blacks kids do bad on testing so is this a way of social networ...

• Word Count: 1119
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From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... When we face the homeless person in the street, who asks us to spare change, we feel uncomfortable, making this a situation that involves death, but rather than facing death we tend to circumvent death through convenience. Convenience helps us to circumvent death and in this society any feeling of death must be avoided and put off and never faced and conquered, for facing death and overcoming these little deaths requires effort and t...

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The lines were very easy to distinguish and if tested on their own observers made few if any errors. When they were tested in a group and most or all of the rest of the group gave the wrong answer, the subjects were more likely to conform and also give the wrong answer. ... If a member who has just recently been diagnosed with cancer can only relate cancer to death because most everyone he knew that had cancer has died, then being in this group situation and hearing of the survivors experiences may change his attitude about the disease, different treatment options, cures, etc. ...

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Religion and spirituality influence one's concept of death and dying by offering a reason for being and a framework in which to interpret the inevitable. ... Marble (1997) tested this theory between middle aged and elderly women. ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Edmond is responsible for portraying his brother, deceiving and portraying his father, using both Gonerill and Regan for his advantage and also for Cordelia's death. ... As Shakespeare and the Elizabethans saw it, by these women corrupting the structure of power and the natural order of society's function, they deserved to be punished with death. ... This is reinforced by using the love test scene of the play as an example, proposing that this scene is a variant of the wedding ceremony, where male dominance is once again emphasised, both in terms of authoritarian and procreator. ...

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In the article "A Promise to Protect Pension Will Test Greece's Red Line on Austerity," it's explained that Greece is currently suffering the social problems of tax increases, pension cuts, and unemployment. ...

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In 1970 the crash testing showed it was likely to explode and burn if hit from behind due to the design and positioning of the fuel tank. ... Compare the dollar costs to Ford of modifying the car to make it safer, with the dollar benefits of doing so for all other stakeholders, that is, deaths and injuries avoided from rear end collisions. ... Between 1971 and 1978, up to 500 people were killed in fire related deaths in this car (exact number was, not surprisingly, disputed). ...

• Word Count: 1947
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Oskamp (1984) showed that a large percentage of smokers agreed that 'cigarette smoking causes disease and death' however because smoking was a hard habit, their attitude did not influence their behaviour. ... Their research suggests those who scored consistently on personality tests seemed to be more consistent in their behaviour across different situations. ...

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" Now, forty years of age, Trevor is returning to his incredible past where he must face the darkness of the terrible memories, and as he approaches his past, he meets a familiar voice in his head, one that Trevor must now test his morals against as he chooses to go back to his stirring town with this mysterious voice pulling him back into the past. ... As Trevor looks back on life, and the evident result of going back to his hometown for his friend's death along with the confrontation of his morality, he says, "My father, not known for his wisdom (though he took runs at it on the ni...

• Word Count: 1698
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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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Fierce American substances substantiate the European Idea: the death penalty in Christian America, militarism, the utilization of America's poor as gun grain in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American jailhouse for blacks, blocked off medicinal consideration, wide and puzzling neediness on the planet's wealthiest nation. ...

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For the second part of the test, they were taken into another room where the same toys that were in the violent video were placed on a table, and this led to 88% of children showing signs of aggressive behaviour (Bandura, 1977). ...

• Word Count: 3847
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate