...us to receive and retain vast amounts of information about events that have happened to us in the past. Information from our day-to-day lives is absorbed by our senses in different ways: through images (visual), sounds (acoustic) or meaning (semantic). Without memory, we would have no recollection of the past or even think about the future: what events have or will occur, recognise the faces of loved ones, or even learning basic movements and skills like how to speak. Biologically, it’s claimed that the region of the brain linked with processing information from our short-term memory is the Neocortex, found in the frontal lobe of the brain, whereas the Hippocampus is considered the region linked with long-term memory. Cognitively, short-term memory is linked to a computer’s thought process whereas long-term memory is seen as permanent storage, also known as a hard drive; capable of accessing storage in order to retrieve items and information....
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...The 22nd Amendment sets a two-term limit on the office of the President. The limit on the President’s tenure was inspired by George Washington, who established the custom of Presidents voluntarily leaving the office after two terms. The move was seen as an important safeguard against tyrannical power. In 1947, a Republican-controlled Congress sent a 22nd Amendment to the states for ratification, and on February 27, 1951, the amendment was finally ratified. Congress and the president are very different however, one branch being controlled by one person, and the other controlled by hundreds. Many Americans argue that term limits could bring in more ideas and get more done in the shorter time congressmen would have. On the other hand, many feel that longer serving members bring experience to the table that new members lack. Pros to term limits includes new ideas constantly being brought to the table and a better lack of corruption, while cons are lack of experience and the fact that they are seen as unnecessary. One positive of term limits would constantly be bringing in new ideas to the Senate and the House. With a constant shuffle of new members, congressmen would be fresher and more “up to date” on the current issues facing America. Cycling leaders in...
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...What was the short term significance of the New Deal? To discuss the short term significance of the New Deal, it is imperative to define significance. Significance is defined by the number of people’s lives affected by an event; therefore the most significant of the short term effects of the New Deal was FDR’s implementation of radical legislative reforms. It led to a number of positive economic and social changes in a very short space of time, which contrasted greatly with the inaction of the previous Hoover regime. This opinion is supported by well-known New Deal historian Anthony Badger, who stated that "When Roosevelt took power on March 4, 1933; many influential Americans doubted the capacity of a democratic government to act decisively enough to save the country".The creation of public work schemes and relief programmes provided Americans with improved social stability giving them the confidence to support their government’s initiatives, thus enabling Roosevelt to restore elements of the pre-depression economy. Agriculture was also supported to create more jobs and allow business to grow again as opposed to declining as it had during the depression. These changes were all reinforced by the modernisation policies brought in by Roosevelt in the ‘100 days’. Page 1 Word Count: 291 Page 1 Word Count: 291 This cartoon was published in 1933 by the Pittsburgh Press by Harold Talburt. The use of this cartoon of Uncle Sam ‘holding all the Aces’ shows how the new policies of...
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...* What do the terms race and ethnicity mean to you? * * Well I would have to say that I experienced my own struggles with racism growing up being of Caucasian and African American descent growing up in a white neighborhood. But at the same time it wasn’t just a racial issue it was a stereotypical one too. I think that people get an eschewed perspective of the world due to their upbringing the things that they are subjected to or taught, by their family, friends and their surroundings. People tend to also fall into a norm as though to say also when it comes to stereotypes. People associate black people with fried chicken, rap music, gangs, drugs, and violence. They show on television shows and reality shows as blacks being the minority and technically speaking are. But people see these things on television and got out and live their lives this way only further prolonging the stereotypical image that so many people have painted of them. Not saying that television is to blame because it is not. But if they aren’t part of the solution then you are part of the problem in a sense. But at the same time I see things from different perspectives too. I believe that people in this day and age have the potential to be able to make it as far as they will allow themselves to go. I mean look we have a black president a lot of people thought that wouldn’t happen for years to come and we also had and still have a female candidate trying to get into office. You’ve got to accomplish some...
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...negative short term consequences and long term negative consequences. The Acadians lived in Nova Scotia since 1604, in 1755 in Halifax the British told the Acadians that they must take an oath of allegiance to Britain. “The Acadians refused and roughly 10,000 acadians were deported, some died from starvation others from illness. The Acadians that survived, were moved to many places in the Atlantic, or in the Caribbean” -states the Canadian Encyclopedia. This was very bad for the Acadians because the land that they lived on was taken away from them. This was a short term consequence, but the Acadians still are experiencing long term consequences today because they are much more spread out along the world than they used to be, and their community is not the same as it used to be....
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...I. Barriers of changing waste behaviour Most people know the current environmental problems, but only a few of them would participate in the recycling program continuingly and keep changing of their waste behaviour. So, what are their barriers of changing waste behaviour? According to the study of Tucker and Speirs about behavioural change in household waste management (Tucker & Speirs, 2010), many surveys result provided that “inconvenience factors” like effort involved, insufficient of storage space and time consuming were the main reasons household not to participate in recycle. Many households claimed recycling activities are time consuming, they did not willing to spend extra time to separate the recycled items from waste and taking them to the collection containers, many of working people engaged their in work and gathering with friends and family members rather than enrolling recycling activities during the rest time. Generally, insufficient of storage space is a main reason that discourage people to recycle, people who lived in small flats might not have space to store theirs recycled items. Apart from the above inconvenience factors, there are other factors that discourage them to recycle. Many people did not believe that their waste behaviour causing negative effect on environment, although they know that they may not change their 27 behaviour (Davidson et al, 2012). Furthermore, many people believe that individual bebavioural change could not solve the environmental...
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...MFIN7014 Fund Management and Alternative Investments Section 2A, 2015 Discussion paper I What macro information leads to long-term investment strategy? Shuqin Zhao Stu.ID: 3035236775 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) as a professional investment management organization, it focuses on long investment horizon which gives it advantages on risk control and long-term opportunities over competitors. Longterm investment requires asset managers to be more sensitive to future economy trend. Ted Lee pointed out that for long-term view, US market continues to shrink, while the future three group countries will be China, India and Brazil, due to their low correlation with international capital which benefits the portfolio. While India and Brazil are respectively going through political change and recession, opportunities could be largely obsessed in the future, as seen by professionals. In 2015, most of money actually came from Asia, but this is not the only macroeconomy signals that lead to such certainty about future market segments. Based on conversation with Ted, I conclude another strong macro-economy signal as business development. On September 19th 2014, Alibaba IPO ranked as biggest IPO in the world after additional shares sold, which surpassed a previous global record set by Agricultural Bank of China Ltd in 2010. Looking through past five years, largest IPOs includes a lot of Chinese company, which indicates strong signal of fast development...
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...International Trade and Competition What constitutes the basis for trade? Also what are the gains from trade in terms of production and consumption? The purpose of this report is to survey what constitutes the basis for trade in an international perspective and to discuss the gains in relation to production and consumption. By examining a range of recently published journal articles, magazine articles and internet sites on the topic of international trade this paper will describes the main basis’s of trade in common use today such as Factor-Endowments and overlapping demand, and will also examine their importance. In relation to the gains of international trade I will investigate a number of gains in relation to consumption and production. This paper will focus on international trade, which can be defined as the exchange of goods and services between nations. This type of trade gives rise to a world economy, in which prices, or supply and demand, are affected by global events. A basic question in the study of international economics is 'why do nations trade?' or in other words, 'what is the basis of international trade?' The basis of all economic activities, including international trade, is essentially the human desire to improve its standards of living, i.e., to consume more and more of superior goods and services. It is this desire that creates a process of trade between the nations. Firstly you must look at the immediate basis for trade which is stemmed from the cost...
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...few more generations in its strength and splendour” which he wrote in a letter to the viceroy of India this suggests Britain’s need for a strong empire ruled by the British government with no space for independence. Churchill's views where also shared by the British public however the events of the war changed this view enabling India's independence. Indian congress suffered a split which improved its ability to gain support from the British government “India became a cornerstone for the decolonisation process after the spring of 1942”. The British public opinions also changed due to British economic situation as well as the pressure from the USA. Furthermore the uprise of the Indian National army and the Quit India movement also had short term significance. At the outbreak of World War II, the Indian League voted for neutrality. When India came under Japanese attack, the Congress ordered for a democratic government in return for their cooperation in the second world war. The left wing of congress refused to support Britain during ww2 and staged a congress revolt while Bose raised the Indian National Army in order to gain Indian independence by supporting the Axis powers. This however weekended the position of the congress. The muslim league stayed loyal to the British. WW2 acted as a catalyst in the Muslim-Hindu divide.The League became increasingly powerful with a membership of over 2 million people.During The second world war it became know that independence could only be...
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...What was the short term significance of the Long Parliament 1640-1642? The Long Parliament sat from 1640 to 1648 however it was the measures taken between 1640 and 1642 that had the most short term significance. The actions taken by parliament against the king’s ‘evil’ counsellors, the removal of the personal rule of Charles I, the increased role of parliament in conjunction with Charles, the growing support for the king, the religious divisions within parliament and the final breakdown of relations between the two branches of government were all prominent events between 1640 to 1642. The primary short term significance of the Long Parliament was the removal of the king’s ‘evil counsellors’ Strafford and Laud. Despite the impeachment of Archbishop Laud (December 1640) being important, the Strafford crisis was a much more pivotal short term consequence of the Long Parliament. Many of those in parliament and ordinary citizens were displeased with their actions such as the tyrannical imposition of the ‘Thorough’ or absolutist rule – they were men of ‘arrogant pride...deep policy, stern resolution and ambitious zeal.’ Albeit this view belongs to devout puritans Lucy and John Hutchinson, opinions from royalists concur with this as Lord Digby proves in the trial of Strafford (April 1641)that he believed him ‘to be the most dangerous minister’; hence proving that Strafford’s actions were abhorred by a variety of people, even those who supported the king. However there was some negligible...
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...Topic: Explain in your own words what you understand either by the term ‘disciplinary society’ Discipline means agreement to a superior authority. Accommodating the norms of the family, society, the instructions of elders and obeying them is also discipline. Yet, discipline means accepting punishments for violation. The discipline in addition means training of mind and character, rising self-control and the custom of obedience. We live in a democracy. Democracy is based on the willpower of majority of its citizens. It has to be accepted and obeyed. If not democracy loses its meaning and leads to anarchy. Some argue that discipline limits liberty and that also kills the man’s initiative. In my opinion this is a wrong view. In this paper I try to explain what disciplinary society means and why is discipline so important in our life. Discipline might be divided into two wide categories, external and internal. External discipline is that which is compulsory by outside authority. It is often connected with authority and force. For example, discipline in the army is one such. As Tennyson (2007, p. 215) said “Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why, theirs nut to do and die. A soldier in a war field cannot ask for reasons. He has to obey commands; otherwise, the war is lost”. Indiscipline cannot carry order of growth. Self-discipline or discipline by approval is self-control. One controls his emotions and needs and gives room to listen to other’s points of views. Man...
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...Urbanisation is the term given to the process of people establishing themselves in locations as a large urban community, building the characteristics of bigger towns and cities for example the cities of; London, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. From this we can deduce that Counter-urbanisation is the process of people migrating away from the big crowded cities into less densely packed areas in the countryside or smaller settlements than the environments they came from. One of the main causes of counter - urbanisation is the perception of a better quality of life, they want to be able to live in a clean and quiet area without air and noise pollution, busy traffic, dirt and the crime of urban environments. Another attraction of moving to a rural environment is that employers have also started to move to rural areas, adding to the cause of counter- Between 1981 and 1996 rural areas gained more than 1 million jobs. The use of high speed internet connections has allowed people to work at home, even establishing their own internet businesses this has allowed them to move away from the towns and cities. One of the major effects of counter- urbanisation is that the majority of the services in the area are forced to close. This is because the majority of people moving into the areas commute to work every day so instead of using the small village shops for their goods they use the large supermarkets in the urban areas in which they work. Businesses in rural areas then have to close...
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...process of early enculturation, it characterizes the way most individuals feel about their own culture, whether or not they verbalize their feeling. Therefore this essay will discuss what is understood by the term ethnocentrism and show how Ethnocentrism is bad in national politics. Firstly will define what ethnocentrism is, and discuss fully what is understood by the term. Secondly will show how ethnocentrism is bad for national politics. Thereafter a clear and concise conclusion will be drawn. Different scholars have given their understanding of the term ethnocentrism. According to anthropologists, the concept combines the belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures, with the practice of judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture (Den Van, 1970). Ethnocentrism is also defined as a feeling that one’s own group has a mode of living, values and patterns of adaptation that are superior to other groups. Ethnocentrism is a human universal phenomenon. It is believed by some scholars to be as old as the human race. This stand is justified thus right from childhood we learn what is good, moral, civilised and normal according to our culture. As a human universal reality, ethnocentrism is said to be more pronounced in modern nations than in pre-literate tribes. The term ethnocentrism was first used in 1906 by Sumner to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effects of Mass Media Worksheet Write brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following: |Questions |Answers | |What were the major developments in the|The major developments were the newspaper, radio, TV, and the internet. The newspaper well| |evolution of mass media during the 20th|that was basically how the information first got out remember on old movies when the | |century? |editor would say hot off the presses well that was big news and also there were paper | | |boys that delivered papers door to door on bikes, then as time went on there appeared | | |the radio which was very entertaining back then for news, and all the popular shows | | |that was aired back then. Then as things and mans knowledge increased there was the TV | | |which was invented in 1923 by John Logia The black and white, all I can say is than you | | |John Logia for this special invention which now there are many kinds form flat screens to| | |plasma and so forth , and color. before I get to my last invention I would like to say | | ...
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...What does the terms race and ethnicity means to you? Why are these concepts important to the United States? This might sound funny but to me the term race is a word that I believe that scholars came up with to distinguish the differences between people who had different skin color. I also believe that the term race has significance on how people are categorized in society. As a child I love colors, I loved to paint and draw so at a young age I learned about the color wheel. I learned that the color white had significance to purity and that the color black signified death and destruction. To me the scholars used raced to keep separation between certain groups of people. Even as a child I believe that there was only one race and that is the human race. One reason is because I find that the body and it functions are so amazing because the body mechanics changes to different climates. Darker colored people are found in regions where the sun light is more visual and to protect their skin the body produces more pigment for these people. Lighter colored people body does not need as much pigment as darker colored people. This could be because they were found in regions where there was little sunlight and also cold temperatures. The term ethnicity has the same significance as race does to me. I believe that if a person is born in a certain part of the world than that alone should be a person ethnic group. I consider myself an American and that is all. I was not born in Africa nor...
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