According to the Moving to Opportunity study, when low-income families moved to less distressed communities, adults had improved physical and mental health, and although children did not report any changes in their physical health, improvements were shown in their mental health (Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program, 1994). Furthermore, The Stress Process Model shows that our mental health is a result of the interaction between neighborhood characteristics and the individual characteristics (Pearlin, 1989). ... A study attempted to look at how low-income minority communi...

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In modern societies, this view has changed and the most important characteristic of modern markets is that both men and women actively seek mates. ... There are many characteristics that both males and females value in a potential mate. ... Women value prospective male suitors on a cluster of characteristics related to resource potential: good financial prospects, ambition, industriousness, older age, and emotional maturity. On the other hand, men value potential female partners in terms of fecundity, the ability to produce and care for children (Buss 69) Physical attractiveness is a deter...

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They are used to describe certain components of human behavior and the differences of characteristics between humans and the derivation of them, as well as how they are modified, the interaction between them and their significance. ... There are many sociocultural factors that influence the development of the predetermined traits and characteristics of any given human. ... Also some people experience life altering events, such as physical or emotional trauma. ... Although physical differences are genetic, one's environment and culture plays a vital role in shaping and developing the tr...

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Frankenstein's creation, though physically appearing to be a monster, ironically develops characteristics and qualities resembling those of a human being. ... Frankenstein continues to prove his label as a monster in the novel when he makes the sudden decision to abandons his own creation solely because of his physical appearance. ... As a parent, there is no justification to the abandonment of your own child especially if it is because of their physical appearance. ... Frankenstein embodies the characteristics of a monster when his obsession shifts towards viciously seeking revenge of hi...

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"We study the biological characteristics of different human populations, our relations with our relatives-the apes and monkeys, and the evolutionary history of our species" (MacEachern 34). ... " The characteristics of people from different parts of the world that we have come to know, we have mostly gained through the media, such as what we see on television, magazines, and newspapers. ... It is discrimination against a group of people because an inherited characteristic they have, like skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors. ... Without race, there wouldn't b...

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A race is a group of people with distinctive combinations of physical traits that set them off from other groups. Race maybe used to describe biologically similar groups or it maybe used to describe groups that are similar in physical appearances (Robson 1). ... "Historical research has shown more meanings to the term race than just the physical differences. ... In the past, scientists have tried to accurately classify humans by biological differences, instead of the physical differences. ... Parents" characteristics are passed along to offspring in the form of biochemical units called gen...

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I will summarize his speech and explain the characteristics of love as Aristophanes thinks of it. ... In order to explain how this story might shed some light on Aristophanes idea of love, and what he believes are the characteristics of love; we must first acknowledge the difference between physical sexual love, and a deeper spiritual love that emanates from the soul. ... We often consider a healthy loving relationship as a union between two people, where two become one, embedded with virtues of friendship and loyalty that go beyond the physical desire for sexual gratification. ... That bein...

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Kurtz had this characteristic. ... The same holds true for our nature, Darwin's theory of evolution, allows for individuals not able to adapt, to perish, and those left remaining to hold the characteristics necessary for integration with their physical surroundings. ... This comes in the form of a physical feature; for example, a tiger's strength, a cheetah's speed, a bear's claws, etc. ... When this characteristic was developed throughout the eons of evolution, it broke all the existing laws of nature, and humans formed new rules to suit their needs. ... The flowing rivers...

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This behavior doesn't need to the actual physical presence of other persons. ... The boy could not speak a word and lacked virtually all human characteristics. ... The creature was also in the forest for most of his life, not having any human characteristics. ... An infant recieves more during the first six months than physical norishment. ... The infant is recieving a physical and social enviornment experience. ...

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I, with a majority of others, have paid much more attention to the physical existence than to our moral cultivation. ... On the part of Thoreau, his way of living is to achieve mental complexity through physical simplicity. ... Instead,, these animals are personalized and bestowed human characteristics. ... He feels that Americans are sleeping their lives away, so he demands in many places in Walden that people should wake up themselves , not only their physical body but also their spiritual mind. ...

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The author represents Death as physical death. ... The author uses Death to represent allegorically physical death. ... The judgment does not end at physical death but extends to the life after death. ... The author uses Death to indicate that morality is necessary before and after the physical death. Death appears unexpectedly before the physical death of Everyman to show him how he strayed away from morality. ...

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The possible physical damage that could be done if human cloning became a reality is obvious when one looks at the sheer loss of life that occurred before the birth of Dolly. ... In addition to physical harms, there are worries about the psychological harms on cloned human children. ... Cloning could certainly benefit couples who are infertile and want to have a child of their own, thus they could use cloning to produce a baby with their similar characteristics. In fact they may even choose the characteristics of their child. ...

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In the first part of the novel, Louise is idealized by the narrator in terms of physical appearance and mind. ... The scene conveys that physical virginity is falsifiable; also the fact that sex defines an identity and a specific behaviour can be falsifiable too. ... They are different things because the body is important for physical desire, and the identity is the essence of each person. ... It demonstrates that distinctive physical characteristics are only a part of the body, but it does not demonstrate the identity. ...

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Ethnicity does not define physical characteristics, but rather backgrounds and traits. ... I think physical appearance was not the biggest factor. ... People that speak a certain language belong to a race which was already described is set off physical characteristics from other groups. ...

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Remains of over a hundred Neanderthal individuals have been recovered, and they exibit a great variety of individual characteristics. ... The tools at top right are characteristic of Neanderthal culture (Mousterian); they had an effective but fairly simple tool kit which changed very little over the life-time of the species. ... This individual must have contributed something other than physical strength to the social group in which he lived. ... Shown beside the skull are some characteristic tools of Homo sapiens sapiens, all from East or South Africa: a bola for throwing at small game, fla...

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Studying the skull itself produces enough characteristics to directly link the two. ... The gorilla shares more physical features where as the chimpanzee holds more of the behavioral and intellectual characteristics. ...

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In many cases the recessive (dominant) alleleis the one which holds physical ground appearing in an individuals phenotype. ... Cars, clothes, sports, not these physical things but the use of them will enhance anothers sexual attractiveness. ... Male being Y chromosome(small and only carries sexual characteristics) and female being X (large and carries traits for nonsexual traits as well). ... Each species has a certain male and female bond, but the physical, social, and emotional aspects are not like that of humans. ...

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It is a common idea that the foundation of human sentience and thus their acknowledgement for a moral status is based on many characteristics - sex for pleasure, ability to communicate within the species, and family ties, to name a few, however none of these seem independent to human beings. Our sentience comprises of physical and emotional experiences, and it follows that pleasure makes up half of the spectrum of sentient experiences. ... If there is a moral divide between humans and animals, it must hold that animals lack something that humans possess, however this is hard to identity given ...

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Their primary objective is to demonstrate that form and appearance is completely irrelevant, and that it is the humanity inside a creature that is the defining characteristic, and it is only human- kind that can reason. ... Due to the "Houyhnhms" vast sphere of influence and knowledge, Gulliver changes and begins to recognise that there is a significant connection in physicality between himself and the "Yahoo's". ... Due to this insecurity, he decides to hide his physicality, which therefore prevents him from being truthful to the "Houyhnhms". ...

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Hobbes" philosophy on this subject in known as Materialism and this theory says that physical objects in space are all there is, even the mind. ... Idealism is the theory that our minds or spirits are all there is, that even the physical body turns out to be in our minds. ... When people think of robots they tend to apply human characteristics to them. ...

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The members of a clone have precisely the same characteristics, except where mutation and environmentally caused developmental variation have occurred. ... Positive eugenics aims to increase reproduction of individuals who have traits, such as high intelligence and physical strength or fitness, which are considered to be valuable to society. ... Two hundred years ago, society would have favored the cloning of men with strong backs and women who were built for childbearing since those were the physical types needed to open a new land. ...

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Things went relatively well for the first day as we leisurely look photographs of each other and ate our well- prepared meals, but by the second day we began encountering unforeseen obstacles such as thunderstorms, shortage of water, geographic disadvantages, and utter physical exhaustion. ... Its quite clear that the love for nature on top of the attraction to the thrill of living life on the edge are characteristics that we certainly all share....

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Estrogen-induces signals are indirect behaviors including prolonged eye-contact with sexual partner, kissing, friendly physical contact activities, and the willingness to engage in sexual intercourse. ... While humans exhibit these same characteristics in mating, another major component is missing if marriage is not discussed. ...

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Cloning Is cloning ethical? The majority of the world would say no but the medical research possibilities associated with it are endless. In 1997 when Dolly the lamb was born we began to think, "Wow if it's possible to clone an animal why not a human in the futur...

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By performing the process of cloning, scientists take the risk of having complications and causing physical and psychological effects in the cloned being. ... With the breakthrough of cloning at hand, parents could possibly choose characteristics they desire in a child instead letting birth happen naturally. ...

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