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According to Carter Von Findlay: "The Soviets’ economic problems were worsened by the fact that the world-market price of oil, their main export, dropped again by the mid-1980s. As the Soviets’ export earnings fell, their foreign debt shot up, reaching $54 billion by 1989. The Soviet…

I have felt so confused and overwhelmed not knowing what I am going to do with the rest of my life. If someone has not already thought of this, they most likely will because the majority of people have to have serious questions based upon what they want to make a career out of. However, some people have always known what they feel passionate about and can make a career out of. Ever since I was young, I have always loved houses from interior to exterior and even structurally with floor plans. In…

Craig Silvey’s novel 2009 novel, Jasper Jones, is coming of age story set in the fictional mining town of Corrigan, Australia over the summer of 1965 where the protagonist, Charlie Bucktin is exposed to confronting issues which ultimately change the way in which he views the world. As Lois T. Stover noted in 2001, “Good young adult literature deals with the themes and issues which mirror the concerns of society … [and] help[s] readers understand the complexities … [of] these issues.” Jasper…

judgements. No longer the gentle, noble man he used to be, he became “Unable to contain all the conflicting duties of sonship, revenge, and prospective sovereignty, Hamlet registers his confusion by making madness, no longer Claudius his enemy” (Findlay, 144). Hamlet became his own enemy, his only goal developed to into revenge for his late father, and lost himself along the way to only those actions. Even though Hamlet’s original intentions were thought out and prepared to confuse the king by…

Voluntary behaviour with a goal of benefitting another, termed as prosocial behaviour, has been of a major interest in developmental psychology over the last few decades. As Davidov, Vaish, Knafo-Noam and Hastings (2016) pointed out, this interest is largely due to the cross-cultural consistency in attributing high importance to prosociality, yet counterintuitive evolutionary explanations of it, as well as the complexity of factors determining and motivating prosocial behaviour. Particularly,…

Introduction Creasia and Parker (2007) defined “professionalization as the process through which an occupation achieves professional status”. With reference to “Merriam-Webster” dictionary (2015), “professional is interpreted as a person characterized by the technical or ethical standards of a profession in courteous, conscientious ways”. Flexner (2001) has given “professional” an evolutionary definition, but generally classified into six criteria. They include the personal activity with the…

was no walk in the park especially for me, I missed school due to medical issues and so I was very far behind on my hours you need to go down and test. So at the end of junior year I had two choices to drop out of the program or to drive down to Findlay every day the month of June 8am-5pm for a summer class and make up all of my missing hours. Even though I gave up a month of my summer and had to wake up every morning at 6am to drive down I did it I made up all of my hours and showed that I was…

After reading the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I realize what she went through, and that we have some similarities. What we have in common is that we both had been bullied in our childhood. Also, we both had somewhat of a disability. However, we both found a way to overcome our problems, and “Things usually work out in the end”. The only thing is that my problem has been with me ever since I was born, and Jeannette’s problem was during her childhood. The problem I have is called…

I observed three different trials on the 13th of August all in the Brisbane Supreme Court for approximately four hours. This essay explores my observations of that day and discusses how the court reflected either the due process or crime control models of the criminal justice system. An overview of both models will be provided as well how they relate to my observations of the trials. This essay argues that the due process model was prevalent of the cases observed. Task 1 The first hearing I…

Approach to Care: Cancer Name Institution Approach to Care: Cancer Receiving news of cancer commonly spark devastation and fear of the known. Annually, more than one million people are diagnosed with cancer based on the estimates that the American Cancer Association provides. Upon receiving a cancer diagnosis for the first time, clients and their loved ones usually do not understand the information that follow the diagnosis. Each case of cancer is presented based on the biopsy of the site,…