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    Chimpanzees live in fission-fusion groups in which individuals form subgroups that are fluid and flexible (Goodall 1968). Females are the dispersing sex in chimpanzees (Pusey 1980); thus, there is low variation in the degree of relatedness between females in the same community, and the majority of female-female bonds will not be closely related (Vigilant et al. 2001). Most female chimpanzees emigrate at adolescence, between nine and 14 years old (Nishida et al. 2003). Inbreeding avoidance…

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    in late childhood based on references and the movie Stand By Me (1986). These four main points will be discussed: physical behavior, gender roles, self-esteem, and cognition. Physical Behavior Children’s physical behavior are noticeably advanced compared to those of infants and toddlers ( Sigelman and Rider, 2015). Children learn over a period of time to move their bodies with their changing environment. In Stand By Me (1986), Teddie says, “Train dodge. Dig it?” He waited until the last…

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    Richard B. Cornish’s rational choice theory is derived. Cornish and Clarke developed their version of rational choice theory in the mid-1980s in order to create a method of study that would help improve crime prevention policies (Clarke and Cornish, 1986: 421-422). Beccaria believed that all individuals have free will and that all individuals are hedonistic in nature, rationally looking out for their own personal satisfaction. They chose to modify Beccaria’s “Classical Paradigm of Criminology”…

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    Daft and Lengel (1986) argued that all organizations processed information under some degree of uncertainty and equivocality. When dealing with uncertainty organizations understand they must gather more data or information to fill in the gaps of what they need to know to be successful. When dealing with equivocality, the gaps are not so clear. Equivocality means ambiguity, and confusion about what is needed to be known. “Uncertainty is a measure of the organization’s ignorance of a value for…

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    Musicians create music for many reasons. They write songs about love and songs about the loss of love. Some create songs to brag about how much material possessions they have or to express their own personal happiness. However sometimes there exists situations in the world that are so upsetting and controversial that even musicians feel forced to act. In time of war and turmoil, musicians become the voice of the people and through their music they reflect the growing discontent of the people…

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    and Quilgars, 1996) .However, with the rising number of women among the homeless population and the development of feminist movement, (Watson and Austeberry, 1986) much literature and research have been undertaken studies into women homelessness and seek to comprehend the devastating effects on their life including (Watson and Austeberry, 1986, Burrows, Pleace, and Quilgars, 1996, and Itzen and Newman, 2009). Research from (Crisis, 2009) demonstrated that 3.5 million People in United Kingdom…

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    Secondhand Smoke and Asthma In the world today we have many things that are harmful and dangerous to us. Ordinarily, when we think of someone causing you harm, it is not so close to home. Your mother and father are the furthest from your mind of people who would do something to harm you. In many cases, they are the people who can do the utmost harm. In this review I would like to determine if children ages unborn to eighteen with daily exposure to tobacco smoke have a predisposition to develop…

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    social or economic risks, such as sickness and unemployment, the latter one, after screening appliers’ eligibility based on need and income, provide benefits to vulnerable population, especially to the poor, for improving their bad conditions (Katz, 1986; Edwards, Turner & Hertel-Fernandez, 2012) Considering how to clearly differentiate these two tracks, Schillar (1976) proposed two major characteristics of social insurance which could not be found in public assistance: national…

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    The piping plover is a small shorebird that stands at about seven inches tall. The color on the back is a light gray and the breast and belly are white. One black ring wraps around the back and sides of the neck, but does not connect in the front. The legs are yellowish in color and the bill may be all black or yellow at the base and black at the tip. Piping Plovers feed on insects that they pick off the surface of the ground. Their habitat is by mudflats, sandy beaches, and shallow wetlands…

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    defendant did not comply and instead replied aggressively. The police constable then once again cautioned the defendant, who was now threatening the constable, did not adhere to the warning. He was arrested under section 5(1)(a) of the Public Order Act 1986. Whilst being arrested the…

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