...been many serial killers. There are many throughout the country and even many that have killed in West Virginia. Many psychologists have tried to study serial killers and answer why serial killers kill and also if serial killers suffer from some type of psychological disorder. Doing my research I find that this is a task that is very hard to do. It is difficult to determine possibly because many serial killers turn out to be the people who you would least likely suspect. In this paper I will take a look as to whether serial killers may suffer from psychopathy. I will also attempt to focus on one particular serial killer – Dennis Rader – BTK. Psychology Of A Killer Many psychologists believe that psychological disorders are the only reason for the killings while other psychologists believe that the reason is the environment that they are raised in and/or are currently in. Seeking help when a person is young, if sadistic or animal cruelty behavior is caught early by their caregiver, can reduce the factors of becoming a serial killer. There also may be factors with nature and nurture and how that may have affected them in the creation of a future serial killer. According to my research, the most successful serial killers are people who blend into society who possibly could be a neighbor or a trusted friend. The psychology of a kill and the method of the kill may be a factor also. Psychopathy is not only about the bad things that people do, but have their own set of personality...
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...Religious Poetry Research Paper Abstract King David was the author of Psalms 23: 1-6, and was revered throughout the bible as a great man that had great leadership qualities, and was admired by God. God himself referred to David as a man after his own heart. Throughout the Bible, there was only one man that held the heart of God; and that man was David. God described David as being a, “man after God’s own heart,” and gave the reason why He felt this way about David. “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do” (Acts 13: 22, Life Application Study Bible). The poetic words of Psalms 23 was written by King David, illustrating God as our Shepherd who provides, leads, protects, and comforts. Religious Poetry Research Paper Psalms 23 The Lord the Shepherd of His People A Psalm of David. 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell[a] in the house of the Lord Forever (Psalm 23:1-6, The Maxwell Leadership...
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...How to Capitalize Titles in MLA Style These titles should appear in a research paper as follows: Modernism and Negritude Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur Turner’s Early Sketchbooks The rules for capitalizing titles are strict. In a title or a subtitle, capitalize the first word, the last word. and all principal words, including those that follow hyphens in compound terms. Therefore, capitalize the following parts of speech: • Nouns (e.g., flowers and Europe, as in The Flowers of Europe) • Pronouns (e.g., our, as in Save Our Children; that, as in The Mouse That Roared) • Verbs (e.g., watches, as in America Watches Television: is, as in What Is Literature?) • Adjectives (e.g., ugly, as in The Ugly Duckling: that, as in Who Said That Phrase?) • Adverbs (e.g., slightly, as in Only Slightly Corrupt: down, as in Go Down, Moses) • Subordinating conjunctions (e.g., after, although, as if, as soon as, because, before, if, that, unless, until, when, where, while, as in One If by Land and Anywhere That Chance Leads) Do not capitalize the following parts of speech when they fall in the middle of a title: • Articles (a. an. the, as in Under the Bamboo Tree) • Prepositions (e.g., against, between, in, of, to, as in The Merchant of Venice and A Dialogue between the Soul and Body • Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet, as in Romeo and Juliet) • The to in infinitives (as in How to Play Chess) ...
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...Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England and died at the Down House in Kent on April 19, 1882. He was born to Robert and Susannah Darwin. Robert was a successful physician whose father, Erasmus Darwin, had also been a physician but had made his name as a poet of the natural world. Susannah Wedgwood came from a family of potters; her father, Josiah Wedgwood, had made a small fortune making high-quality pottery. Both sides of Darwin's family were liberal in their politics and indifferent in their religion. Darwin spent his childhood playing at The Mount, the Darwin home and estate in Shrewsbury. He was schooled at home by his sister Caroline until he was eight years old and Susannah died. He then spent a year at a day school and transferred to a boarding school, the Shrewsbury School, only a mile away from The Mount. There he studied, getting acceptable but unremarkable grades, until age sixteen, when his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Darwin focused on collecting, hunting, and naturalizing instead of medicine. It was there that he first learned to study and collect beetles. The marine biologist Robert Grant took him under his wing. After two years, it was obvious that Darwin would not become a doctor, so with the help of his father Darwin transferred to the University of Cambridge to study for the clergy of the Anglican Church. There he became friends with the older botanist John Henslow. Soon after graduating...
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...Personality Reflection Paper Lisa Rutherford PSY 250 March 26, 2013 Harry Lowe Personality Reflection Paper I would define personalities as the different characteristics that make up and define every one as individuals. It is a composition of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors unique to every person. Some people have very interesting personalities, outgoing, happy go lucky, ready to get up and start their day. Then there are others which are just plain nonsocial, and do not want anything to do with others, just want to be quiet and to themselves. I am a very outgoing, bubbly, ready to enjoy life. I enjoy talking to people and will strike up a conversation just about anywhere, the Laundromat, the grocery or the gas station. Many people have told me I would be a great waitress because I have a bubbly personality. A friend of mine is very spiritual and has told me he has seen my spirit. It is very free and I am a good person inside. Good thing because I feel that way all the time. The unconscious part of my personality, yes, I see myself doing things as my parents have done or said with my own children. Expecting high goals from them, such as grades, and how they treat others. My personality does change with the environment around me. I notice that if everyone is quiet or laid back then I tend to do the same. This drives me crazy sometimes as I am a go getter and want to always go, go, and go. Before moving to Texas three weeks ago, I had a problem with neuroticism. I...
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... is emerging in the area of cancer research, which is sometimes called the “dark matter” of the human genome. Dr. Croce has turned his decades-long pursuit of cancer remedies into a research empire. He has been the recipient of over $86 million in federal grants. He has also earned more than 60 awards. Some accusations have stated that Dr. Croce overstated his expansive claims for therapeutic promise and that his laboratory is focused on creating more papers than on carefully assessing the data from their experiments. Dr. Croce has been fending off allegations of data falsification and other scientific misconduct. An anonymous critic contacted authorities with allegations of falsified date in Dr....
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...I chose to interview a female, in her thirties, that is from Ghana. She is married with two children and works in the mental health field doing research for the Veterans Association. The interview took place in an office setting and it was just the two of us present. The thing that I feel went well in the interview was that it felt more like a natural conversation than a formal interview. The atmosphere was quiet and we both seemed comfortable talking with each other. I cannot think of anything that went wrong during the interview and I feel power was distributed equally between myself and the person I chose to interview. Going into the interview I do not feel I had any preconceived notions about the person I chose to interview or her culture....
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...the possible exception of Rachel during her waitressing years, the characters are rarely shown to work. Ross is the most unrealistically portrayed of them all: as a palaeontologist who also is a professor at New York University, and being a father sharing custody with an ex-wife it is difficult to understand how he has the time to socialize as much as the show depicts him too. “Friends” provides an unrealistic portrayal of how active Ross Geller’s social life is in comparison to his work and family commitments during the late 20th and early 21st century. Friends shows that most adults will frequently be able to engage in sexual intercourse regularly and with many different partners in the span of a few years. While Ross is typically the quiet, bookish friend of the show, and is certainly less crazed for sex than Joey, over the course of ten seasons the viewer sees Ross’ three divorces and development of several sexual relationships with new women more often than what many other adults are experiencing outside of television. In season 4, he meets Emily Waltham and runs off to a bed and breakfast in Vermont for a...
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...Social Workers Anonymous Team (SWAT) is a group that consisted of 7 members. We were different in many ways and laughed when it was acknowledged how different we are. I remember addressing the subject and saying, “wow that is so cool how different we are and we can still relate to one another and work together.” There were two Hispanic women, two individuals in their 30’s, a holistic woman who believed in all natural remedies, a woman who stands so strong for black power, an athletic girl, a mom, and a very quiet girl, and one man who laughed at some of the conversations he was stuck in. I like to believe that were a heterogeneous group because we all had very different personalities and different problems. “Jung and Sosik (1999) summarized...
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...Daniel Page Unit 2 Individual Project American Intercontinental University Crime and Substance Abuse May 11, 2014 The two theories that I have selected is Psychological and sociological. Will identify each theory and also describe them in this paper. Also with each theory will explain how drug use and abuse. Talk about how each theory may have a support a strong relationship between drug use and crime. Will talk about two different articles that an individual was charged with a crime while under the influence of illicit substances. Psychological Theory Psychological theory focus primarily on the nature of individual experiences which might make one more susceptible to drug use and/or addiction. Based on the notion that addiction is a manifestation of a unique type of personality. More commonly, psychologists have pointed to an addictive personality. Recently, psychologists identify “personality characteristics” that tend to be associated with drug addiction. Jerome Jaffe suggested 3 personality features characteristic of marijuana users: Non-conventionality, open to new experiences, and lower rates of conventional achievement value. Basically, the psychological theory explains that drug use and abuse begins because of the unconscious motivations within all of us. We are not aware of these motivations, not even when they manifest themselves. So, there are unconscious conflicts and motivations that reside within us as well as our reactions to early events in our lives...
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...The Colorado End of Life Options Act Jasmine Shaw Denver College of Nursing Abstract This paper is intended to provide an overview regarding the Colorado End of Life Options Act. This paper includes information regarding what it is, who qualifies to use it, and what the entirety of the process looks like. The ultimate goal of this paper, however, is to provide enough information regarding the Colorado End of Life Options Act to ensure that a general understanding of the basic requirements/qualifications, processes, individuals involved, and dilemmas surrounding physician assisted suicide is obtained. Keywords: Colorado, End of Life Options, Physician assisted suicide The Colorado End of Life Options Act The concept of physician...
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...Jewish family. His parents were concerned that he scarcely talked until the age of three, but he was not so much a backward as he was a quiet child. Unlike more common children he would build tall houses of cards and he hated playing soldier. (www.aip.org/history/einstein) At the age of twelve he was fascinated by a geometry book. At the age of fifteen in 1895 Albert quit high school disgusted by rote learning and martinet teachers, and followed his family to Italy where they moved their failing electro technical business. After half a year of wandering and loafing, he attended a congenial Swiss school. The next year he entered the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. (www.aip.org/history/einstein) In 1900 after working hard in the laboratory but skipping lectures, Einstein graduated with an unexceptional record. For two grim years he could find only odd jobs, but he finally got a post as a patent examiner. He married his classmate Mileva Maric in 1903 they had a child Lieserl in 1902 whom they eventually put up for adoption she became ill and died, all of her records disappeared. That same year Albert’s father Hermann becomes ill and dies. (www.personal.kent.edu) Albert’s first son Hans Albert was born in 1904. Einstein’s “Miracle Year” came in 1905 where he wrote four fundamental papers, all in a few months. The first paper claimed that light must sometimes behave like a...
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...ENGL 1101/ F October 7, 2014 Google May Just Be Making Us Stupid The ability to perform research in just about every aspect of society. Thanks to modern technology a great deal of this research is readily available and right at our fingertips. In the world today many people have begun to rely on google as a primary means of finding this information. Because of this, it is thought that google may be “Making Us Stupid”. The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr provides a quite reasonable argument to support this idea. “My mind isn’t going-so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (24), is a statement made by car concerning the effects of the internet on his own brain. This is to imply that due to abundant use of the internet for research purposes, it had started to have subtle effects on his thought process. The area he most noticed this change was in his ability to focus when reading. This was attributed the fact that as a writer, he used the internet quite frequently and abundantly for research. Before the internet came to be his saving grace, he would have had to rely on the archaic relics known as books and other forms of media to perform his research. Just due to the nature of this beast, it sometimes required hours of grueling page turning, which in addition to expanding one’s mind can also cause paper cuts. According to Carr, He is not the only one suffering with this dilemma. There...
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...her mother died. Catherine's older sister, Claire, lives in New York City. Catherine has all these hopes and dreams for the future. However, when her father, Robert, takes ill; she puts all her ambitions on hold. She devotes most of her time to taking care of her father, alone. Claire wishes to put their father in an institution, rather than let him live peacefully at home. Catherine, who does not want to put their father in a facility, drops out of Northwestern to take care of her schizophrenic father. Catherine has been mostly a loner for most of her life. She has very few people in her life and does not socialize much. Catherine does not interact with the other sex very much, most of the interaction she has with any man is with her father and Hal. She has never been married nor have any children. Hal, one of Robert’s old students, likes Catherine very much. Catherine does not care for Hal much at first; she tries to push him away. Robert asks Catherine to go out on her birthday and Catherine makes a remark about in order to go out on her birthday she has to have friends. The remark at the beginning of the play points out the hardships and the social isolation Catherine faces on a day-to-day basis. Catherine is also somewhat depressed. On most days, Catherine just sleeps all day long or just read magazines and nothing else. Catherine makes many sacrifices for her father. She has always been smart at mathematics, something she inherited...
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...LEVEL 5 LEADERSHIP THE TRIUMPH OF HUMILITY AND FIERCE RESOLVE What catapults a company from merely good to truly great? A five-year research good to truly great? A five-year research project searched for the answer to that question, and its discoveries ought to change the way we think about leadership. The most powerfully transformative executives possess a paradoxical mixture pf personal humility and professional will. They are timid and ferocious. shy and fearless. They are rare -- and unstoppable. In 1971, a seemingly ordinary man named Darwin E. Smith was named chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, a stodgy old paper company whose stock had fallen 36% behind the general market during the previous 20 years. Smith, the company's mild-mannered in-house lawyer, wasn't so sure the board had made the right choice -- a feeling that was reinforced when a Kimberly-Clark director pulled him aside and reminded him that he lacked some of the qualifications for the position. But CEO he was, and CEO he remained for 20 years. What a 20 years it was. In that period, Smith created a stunning transformation at Kimberly-Clark, turning it into the leading consumer paper products company in the world. Under his stewardship, the company beat its rivals Scott Paper and Procter & Gamble. And in doing so, Kimberly-Clark generated cumulative stock returns that were 4.1 times greater than those of the general market, outperforming venerable companies such as Hewlett-Packard, 3M, Coca-Cola,...
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