Pritchard Hall Thefts: Lacey Larceny or Something Worse Once again Pritchard Hall is in the clutches of a criminal mastermind. Instead of high priced MP3s and laptop computers, the larcenist is after something much lacier. The Virginia Tech Police Department has received reports of underwear being taken from the laundry room in Pritchard. I know what you’re thinking. “What could be more suspenseful than stealing underwear?” “Surely, this must be the plot for Point Break II.” “How did they get past the laser trip wires?” I can only answer with: “almost anything;” “Dear God, do not give Keanu Reaves an excuse to act again;” and “I am guessing Catherine Zeta Jones dipped beneath them (whoa oh oh).” However, the V.T.P.D.
After the monkey is introduced to the reader the speaker says, “cross, by swimming, for fruits and nuts,” (2). It is not explained in the first two lines of the poem what it is the monkey must cross but it can be assumed that because of the title “To Help the Monkey Cross the River” and the use of the word “swim” that the speaker is talking about a monkey crossing a river. Lux then goes on to say “to help him/
Again, use quotations from both stories to defend your interpretation of what the hero learns. 3. Compare the goal of Gilgamesh in his second journey to the goal of Monkey in his journey to the West with Tripitika. Superficially, it seems that each has only one goal and that these goals are completely different. But can you think of other goals that have hidden similarities?
Monkey King or Tripitaka. Explain your answer with support from the text. Does the tale Monkey exhibit any signs of syncretism? Why is the concept of syncretism important for our understanding of religion and culture? Cite passages from the text that support your answer.
“Using alternative evidence, critically evaluate Bennett-Levy and Marteau study ‘Fear of Animals’” Bennett-Levy and Marteau concluded that humans are biologically programmed to fear certain characteristics of animals such as how suddenly and animal is perceived to move. Alternate research includes Cook and Mineka, where monkeys were shown a video tape of other monkeys being fearful towards animals which monkeys are usually known to be feared of (fear-relevant objects) such as snakes. Later on, the monkeys displayed fear towards these animals when they were exposed to them in real life. The same monkeys were then shown a video tape of not fear-relevant objects such as toy rabbits and artificial flowers and when exposed to them in real life, the same observational learning did not occur as the monkeys were not afraid of the toy rabbit and flowers. This study found that monkeys can only learn fear of fear relevant objects and not of fear-irrelevant objects.
Respond to the following three-part question in one post. 1. List and explain the three types of plea bargains. Should defendants be allowed to plea or not? 2.
It’s also important to note here that these exemplars are cobbled together from multiple sources, and they include language and phrasing that is not mine. 1. Discuss three appeals to ethos in this essay. What different roles, or personae, does Prose use to establish her ethos? Note first that the question asks for “three appeals to ethos”; that necessitates at least three in your response, and while there are appeals other than those created by personae, the question guides you to consider Prose as adopting “different roles.” For each role, you must do more than summarize.
Does the essay delve into the subtle nuances and complexities of the varied interpretations of the theories and the principles, and demonstrate their relevance to the issues at stake? ANALYSIS and ARGUMENTATION - Does the essay contain elements arising from the exercise of one own’s judgment and insight? Does the essay show evidence of careful and thoughtful interpretation, and critical evaluation, of competing claims and arguments? Does the essay provide analysis – not just description? Description reports what happened; analysis explores how and why.
Despite the odds and the gambling awareness campaigns, these individuals in developed society engage in what is defined as problematic gambling. The stimulus which encourages such behaviour can be related to two psychological theories. The theories developed by Pavlovian and Skinnerian discuss the concepts of classical conditioning and operant conditioning respectively. It is believed that both these forms of conditioning can contribute to the compulsiveness of a problem gambler through various forms of stimulus. The following will discuss both the theories and through definition of problematic gambling, apply each theory to the rudimentary behaviour of a problem gambler and in doing so consider the relative contribution each has.
Social -control theory argues that deviance is largely a matter of failed social controls. Merton believes that the strain between the norms that define socially appropriate goals and the norms that specify socially appropriate means for attaining these goals creates an atmosphere in which deviance will appear. Travis Hirschi says that persons with a weakened bond to their social group are likely to become deviant. Differential association and cultural transmission theories propose that deviance is a natural outgrowth of a person's contacts during socialization and can be a part of a subculture that can be transmitted indefinitely. Conflict theory traces the origin of criminal behavior to class conflict between the powerful and the weak and sees criminals as reasonable individuals forced by circumstance to break laws in order to regain some of what has been taken from them or denied to them by an exploitative system.