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According to many FBI cases, serial killers tend to be white heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties. While it is impossible to predict who will become a serial killer, there are traits that appear to be similar in all killers. These behaviors include cruelty to animals, bedwetting, lying, drug and alcohol abuse, and a history of violence. A serial killer is simply defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time; usually with…

Having fought against the fascist regime during the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell found himself astounded and distressed by the sheer volume of his contemporaries that so easily accepted Stalin’s totalitarian dictatorship. The focus of the novel, the character Winston Smith, seeks to demonstrate the importance of maintaining a balance between internalising individualism with oneself and conforming with the ideals of a society which seems absurd. As a social democrat, Orwell placed great…

Historical Investigation Arab Israeli Conflict Controversy: The Israelites deserve the land they are fighting over. The Israelis truly deserve land they were promised. After researching the history of the Jewish people and understanding their view point on this topic. The judgment that can be made is that the Jews certainly do deserve the land they are fighting for. Before the topic at hand is discussed, the history of Jews and Zionists should be explored. According to the English dictionary…

It’s Time to “Pop the Bubble”: The Implications of International Programmes Supporting Public Health Growth and Development Introduction Let’s face it— Canadians are some of the healthiest people in the world. With programmes covering both health protection at the clinical level, and health promotion at the policy level (e.g. The Public Health Agency of Canada), Canada easily has a population that can call themselves healthy relative to much of the rest of the world. To test this, let’s…

Gender is a social construct; it is a set of learned behaviours that inform how we present ourselves in society and is “produced, negotiated and sustained at the level of everyday social interaction” (Jackson & Scott, 2002). Gender is not binary but a spectrum going from identifying as male at one end, non-binary or agender in the middle and female at the other end. My gender identity as female has had an effect on my life experience from birth through a number of ways such as how I feel about…

Oscar in 1939. When Pearl Harbor got attacked in 1941 Capra once again joined the Army. During his time in service he made some propaganda films among them “Prelude to War” in 1943. The film earned him an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Then in 1946 he co-wrote and directed “It’s a Wonderful Life” which today remains one of this best-known works. The movie received five Oscar nominations, has remained a Christmas classic and gained even more popularity when it was broadcast on TV starting in…

armies, saboteurs and gents in parts of Europe where their activities would be of greatest value to Britain’s military effort. Essentially, politics encroached onto the SOE’s activities and took over. Unfortunately, the SOE officially dissolved in 1946 after the year had ended and in the final years of the Cold War…

My theoretical orientation and my basic assumptions about the nature of human beings is based on my life-long experiences and my core belief that people can and will change if the rewards are greater than the sacrifices. I believe that all clients can modify their feelings, attitudes, cognitive structures, and overt behaviors when positive outcomes are attractive enough to overcome the gratification of the undesirable behaviors. I recognize that helping people to change is hard work and that…

Politically, the Jehovah Witness remain neutral. They do not vote for political candidates, support either political party or run for political office. It is fair to say that they will not indulge in any type of political conversation. They believe that the Bible gives solid reasons for following this course. They consider themselves following the example of Jesus and references John 6:15 as support. They also believe that Jesus discouraged the disciples from being political and references John…

Jane Wright, The One and Only Inventor of Chemotherapy Jakob Young and Taylor Holmes Jane Wright has changed our society. “She was one of the first researchers to test chemotherapeutic drugs in humans, which produced effective dosing levels and helped save lives” (“Changing the Face of Medicine”). She helped people with cancer by using a new treatment called chemotherapeutic drugs, which helped terminate the odds of having cancer. She mostly worked on patients by giving them chemotherapy, which…