History of the opioid crisis: There is a long history of opioid dependencies, dating back to 1806 when German chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner isolated a substance from opium. This was later named “morphine” after the god of dreams, Morpheus. Morphine soon became a regular treatment for doctors in the United States when treating pain, anxiety and respiratory problems. Frequently used as an aid for consumption and female ailments, Morphine became a common painkiller during the Civil War. However, many...
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Medea Analysis Write a 500-word Synopsis of the play Medea (10 marks) Euripedes’ play opens in Conrith with Medea in a state of conflict. Not only does her husband Jason marry another woman (Glauke, daughter of Creon the King of Corinth) but on top of this, Creon banishes Medea and her children from the city. In the play’s opening, the nurse summarises events that took place before the play began. After a long series of trials and journeys, ultimately forcing...
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“Secure attachment was once viewed as important for infant development. More recently, it has been deemed the most important ingredient for successful relationship formation, strong self-identity & confidence to function and achieve in our lifetime.” Introduction A child's experience in their early formative years largely influences their later development. The influence largely accounts for the development of their cognitive skills, emotional stability, personality, and social skills. According to Bawdy (1977), attachment is the emotional bond that individual forms towards another...
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The project is about a very questionable issue child labor. This report talks about worldwide problem of child labor and how different countries are exploiting children by making children work for longer hours and gaining benefits out of it. Child labor is a multi-dimensional issue. There are four main sections in this report the first and foremost section talks about the detailed introduction of the dilemma and the report itself. The next section is based on the facts and figures...
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Critical Reflection plays a significant role in social work, when practicing social work, it is important to reflect on new but also old experience for present and future learning. In Gardner’s Being Critically Reflective: Engaging in Holistic Practice she writes a section called ‘Theoretical Underpinnings’ which talks about the four theories that both Jan Fook and she ‘use the primary underpinning blocks for critical reflection (Fook and Gardner, 2007). Gardner (2014) also mentions that psychodynamic and narrative approaches are also...
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Part A: A growth mindset is the ability to look for strengths even after the biggest failures. For example, a subject perhaps maths at school is known to be a challenging aspect for students to cope up with. Growth mindset is the capacity of not giving up even after one is criticising and/or facing tough challenges yet continually learning from that. However, there is no such thing as one growth mindset, kids and adults can have a different growth mindset...
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Du Huo is a Chinese herbal medicine that is normally used in treatment of cold and dampness. It is a Chinese herbal medicine that is mainly found in various parts of China including Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui provinces (Zhou & Milne, 2003). The origin of this Chinese herbal medicine is the roots of herbaceous plant known as “Angelica Pubescens Maxim.f.biserrata Shan et Yuan”; which is a popular herbaceous plant that is found in the family of Umbelliferae (Sacred Lotus, 2018)....
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Introduction No one can step into the same river twice,because everything in the world is in perpetual motion which helps the universe to be made up.Our society is an organic and complex synthetic,facing inevitable change and it is influenced by culture,politics,economics,technologies and other aspects with time.Social change has been defined in different theoretical orientations and concisely can be viewed as the changes in the social mechanisms,which can be embodied as the alteration of cultural symbols,rules of conduct,social organizations or value...
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Ethics Case Study Assignment Appendix A states the chosen dilemma whereby a data analyst for a major casino has been faced with an ethical dilemma in a business-related situation where he must decide the most ethical choice. This is considered an ethical dilemma as a situational conflict emerges between two possible moral imperatives by which adherence to one transgresses another moral principle. Which in this case, Blair, has two difficult choices to make, whether to report to the management team...
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Executive summary- Facebook is a global technology company that is a well-known provider of online social media platforms. The company is US based and Mark Zuckerberg is the key management personnel. Facebook has been a huge success in online social media and is immensely popular with billions of users globally however in the recent past the company has been facing certain challenges especially with regards to improper use of user data etc. The report aims to study the stakeholders of...
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It is stated that more than 100 million animals die each year in experimentation. Only a small percentage of them are going to survive. The issue of animal testing has brought a lot of controversies around the world. Is animal testing for non-essential medication morally wrong? There are many aspects to the problem. There are both people in favor of and against animal testing. In my opinion, any kind of animal abuse is morally wrong. First and foremost, we should...
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Introduction Violence against women is also known as gender-based violence and it is an issue that causes great harm in many families around the world. It is one of the social crisis spreading widely and is causing a major health problem around the world today (UNICEF,2000; WHO,2017). This problem is seen to be affecting both men and women without regarding their social, economic, cultural and political backgrounds (UNICEF, 2000; Ondicho, 2013; NGEC, 2016). While there is no trusted statistical approximate...
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Cultural analysis of Malaysia The understanding of culture is important in building a lifestyle brand that can have an emotional connection between a consumer and the brand. Nordstrom brands focus mainly on people's lifestyles. Culture plays an important role in building the lifestyle of a society. Nordstrom major business centers around people's lifestyles. Therefore in entering the Malaysian market, Nordstrom takes cognizant of the culture of the people. The market entering strategy is to ensure that the consumers are emotionally...
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Introduction High treatment costs, strenuous treatment plans, and emotional stress on the patient and on her family are the burdens women with breast cancer have to handle. Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women in the US with 245,299 new cases and 41,487 deaths as a result in 2016 with higher rates present in both cottonwood county and in Minnesota (USCS, n.d.). This paper will evaluate the prevalence of breast cancer in Minnesota and Cottonwood county. It will...
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The process of socialization is one that I believe will never end throughout an individual’s lifetime. It is something that is constantly changing. During this process a person learns and gains their personal identity and is able to learn social skills that they believe are deemed appropriate in society. A person can learn what is important through the different norms, values and behaviors of others. They are taught by those that are close to them, which could involve their parents,...
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Do you belong to yourself or do you belong to the state? Individualism focuses on personal benefits/rewards and encourages people to set personal objectives and goals. While collectivism focuses entirely on a group or society’s goals, prioritizing the community’s needs over the individual. Both of these concepts are addressed in the novels; Macbeth by Shakespeare, Anthem by Ayn Rand and countless times in history. While some may think that an individualistic society is too independent and ineffective, its not, and...
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Enlightenment in English Society ‘No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ – Thomas Hobbes 1588- 1679 The Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the invention of the printing press all led to free-thinking, reasoning and questioning of authority, religion, science and our place and roles within humanity. This in turn led to the period of history known as...
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Understanding Scotland’s current high imprisonment rates · Introduction David Garland has observed that, since the 1970s, an unpredictable shift has been made from penal-welfarism, where the focus was on progress and rehabilitation, to a culture of control, characterised by the re-emergence of punitive sanctions and expressive justice. -add more detail from garland and introduce other authors who have noticed this maybe? Due to the complex character of penal change, the focus of the essay will be on how political discourse...
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Abstract Ants have been proposed as a sustainable alternative to pesticides in conventional agriculture, as they supposedly possess some intrinsic defense mechanisms against infections, that might be utilized in protecting farmed plants against pests and pathogens. Previous studies on ant-associated plants have shown an increase in herbivore damage and pathogen infection following exclusion of some naturally occurring ants. However, the actual mechanisms of protection against pathogens remain unknown, and thus the utility of adding ants to plants not usually associated...
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Introduction Up until the mid 1800’s, scintists, heavily influenced by the religion of the time, believed God had created the world and species did not change. In 1859, Charles Darwin challenged this, presenting his “Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection” based on enormous amount of research. Although, the following decade after Darwin’s publication, his ideas were very contentious and heavily debated, they have since been accepted in their entirety by contemporary scientists. His theory has revolutionised natural history into biology,...
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Slavery may have been gathered up as the motivation of the American Civil War, however, the start of the debate started in the hour of the Revolution with a weakened decentralized government under the Articles of Confederation. Later increased momentum as a regional expansion set Americans against one another on discussing whether the new states ought to be slave states or free states, it doubted the intensity of the Federal government regarding state rights and realized instability in the solidarity...
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Introduction to the Impact of Social and Protest Movements Social and protest movements throughout history, specifically in the 1960s, have significantly affected American culture and politics by pressuring elected and appointed officials to make changes. America was founded from a revolution; the original colonists of this country used protest tactics that led to the Revolutionary War and formed an independent country. Social and protest movements began the country, have shaped its history, and continue to presently shape American politics and...
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Introduction Feminism seeks to create equity in the social and cultural constructs that perceive the female gender as being inferior to their male counterparts. In the 21st Century, feminists have involved in the fight for equality, not only in the family setup but also in society. A strive for gender equality, hence, exists, with constant improvements being made to eradicate the usurpation of women by men. Intervention by the feminist movements, therefore, seeks to fight for the right of women...
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War has been a part of the world since the dawn of time and continues to be at war for a number of reasons, however, wars of today are very different from a war fought in the 17th century. The change in strategy over time directly correlates to the change in wartime technology, nevertheless, there is a brief period of time in which the strategy and technology users do not align, leading to an unbelievable amount of lives lost. This...
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Introduction Linguistics is the study of language that includes analyzing language forms and contexts as well. My study is concerned with finding and describing the relation between authorial presence ‘voice’ in second language writing (SLW) in undergraduate students both males and females. Because applied linguistics is my area of interest, I will apply the results of this study to second language writing (SLW) to investigate the role of ‘voice’ in argumentative writing in a relation to overall quality of academic...
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Abstract This paper aims to analyze and use some of the analytical techniques and tools which can be applied on human language. Nowadays, Natural language processing (NLP) has recently earned much attention for representing, analyzing and modifying text computationally. Its applications are widespread in various fields such as machine translation, detection of spam emails, information extraction, summarization, medical, and question answering etc. The paper differentiates among four phases by discussing different stages of NLP and parts of Natural Language Generation...
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Abstract Text summarization is a natural language processing technique which is used for extracting key ideas from a given document. Advanced summarization methods should be able comprehend high-level semantic in the text. In this paper prevalent language models (LM) and frameworks for text summarization based on them are reviewed. It is shown that best quality summaries are achieved with the use of recent LMs. Furthermore, some of considered frameworks are suitable for multiple natural language processing tasks and are able...
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The pre-mRNA breaks and separates from the DNA template strand, which then returns to its original form by rewinding into a double helix again. It then moves out of the nucleus into the cytoplasm through nuclear pores. Within the pre-mRNA there are regions which do not code for any amino acid (non-coding regions) and are not expressed, there are also regions called exons which do code for amino acids and are expressed. The non-coding regions are called introns and need...
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Customs practiced within organized and unorganized religion carry deep significance that can be traced back to the foundations of religious belief. The first evidence of religious belief and practice can be found within acts of veneration to the dead during the Paleolithic Period of earth[footnoteRef:1]. Through acts of burial and graveside offering, rituals such as this one has endured for thousands of years and are continually practiced to this day. Like habits performed in daily life, religious rituals enforce structure...
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John Wesley represents an important figure for the religious world and especially for the church of England. During the 18th century he was one of the most representative figures because of his influence on the reshaping of the religious life England and the United States. This paper will assess Jon Wesley’s track in life, his major achievements as a church reformer and him as a social guide. The times in which Wesley lived were extremely difficult, especially because of the...
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