Can you lay out Daniel Dennett's "Where am I?" into a clear understandable format?
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Explain what it’s like for a person diagnosed with Schizophrenia, when they are being bombarded by stimuli.
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1. Gender differences in communication often give rise to
stereotypes. One common one in the United States suggests that
women never seem to stop talking. This contradicts the research
showing that men
a. are better able to use language to
their advantage.
b. adopt linguistic strategies that help
them maintain conversational dominance.
c. are often reluctant to speak up in
mixed-gender settings.
d. adopt linguistic strategies that focus
on letting women participate in conversation.
2. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously
that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional,
which ended the legal practice of
a. mixing.
b. dilution.
c. anti-miscegenation.
d. hypodescent.
3. In writing about her findings in a Brazilian shantytown,
Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s account of Alto do Cruzeiro provides a
window into the terrible toll of nonconsensual organ harvesting
among the poor, as well as how she herself changed over time. How
might an anthropologist justify the publication of this
ethnographic research when considering the problem of ethnographic
authority?
a. The horrific conditions made it
impossible to ignore, and since she obtained informed consent, this
is justification.
b. Anthropologists are themselves changed
in fieldwork, and so honest reflexivity is justification.
c. All of the poor must be given an equal
voice, thus polyvocality is justification.
d. Authoritative writing asks us to
consider what right we have to report, thus a moral challenge is
justification.
4. About fifteen years ago, the giant Walmart corporation opened
a store in Germany. Ten years later, it closed the entire chain
there and pulled out of the country. Its approach was to
replicate—exactly— the stores found in the United States. For some
corporations like McDonalds, such expansion has been successful.
These efforts are all part of how globalization tends to
a. monopolize.
b. cosmopolitanize.
c. homogenize.
d. dominate.
5. Many people believe that the impact of human activity on the
earth is not the major problem that others see today. Such beliefs
that one’s own culture or way of life is normal and natural is
known as
a. normalcy.
b. ethnocentrism.
c. consensus.
d. conventionality.
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In Nigeria, several young girls were abducted due to their belief in education and in Libya
recent events of slave auctions occurred and were recorded; apply
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to this incident. Include reference to this event from
news articles, web accounts or journal entries: Have third world governments responded to the
needs of women.
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Those with Serious Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) are many times difficult to treat. Why?
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What are some reasons that moral values might be universal other than the claims of religion being true? What are the logical implications of moral values are not universal? Is that something that we can simply give up on?
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Of the Four Noble Truths, which do you find to be the most accurate in how it describes reality according to your experience? Which is the least accurate? Give specific examples and explain your answers. Minimum 300 words.
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Answer each question in at least 5 sentences:
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How does structure of the factory floor (i.e. classroom) influence what happens in the classroom?
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The visual system has specialized areas for perceiving faces, bodies, and places, but not other kinds of objects. Why do you think we have specialized areas for these functions but not others?
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What is Jesus' attitude towards the Mosaic Law as presented by Matthew (Mt. 5)? Why is this significant?
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Workplace teams
Why has the use of teams in the workplace increased so dramatically? What do you believe can be attributed to this?
250 words please
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