Nature Versus Nurture

‘Nature vs Nurture’ is an indefinite debate concerning the extent that particular aspects of the human life, such as behaviour are genetic or obtained attributes. Nature links to how genes and hereditary factors define who a person is, this may be through someone’s physical appearance and general characteristics. Whereas nurture is how a person’s environment, … Read more

Graphic Design Through the Ages: How it Evolved and Impacted Culture

 Tamia Jewell Carroll August 10, 2018 Intro to Graphic Design Graphic design has been used from what seems like the beginning of time. Everything from product advertisement, war recruitment, and new art advancements were involved with it. It was perfect to relay all different types of messages. Throughout the years, the popularity and preference … Read more

Christian & Muslim Interfaith Peace: Commitment to Love of God & Neighbor

 “An expression of interreligious solidarity at a time of religious tension, spoke of a shared Christian-Muslim commitment to love of God and love of neighbor (Heck).” Christianity and Islam are ranked as the top two largest religions by following. They, along with Judaism make up the bulk of monotheistic Abrahamic religions, meaning their religious … Read more

Joseph Ellis – Founding Brothers

Jospeh Ellis introduces his book with the preface titled, The Generation. The purpose of this book is to examine and explore the key members of the American Revolution and how all their relationships were connected. Ellis wants his readers to look at this novel from a point of what happened on that actual date and … Read more

Promote Healthy Connections with Patients: The Myers Briggs Personality Indicator

 A communication model is described as an alternative way in identifying key areas of how humans communicate, make decisions and interact with each other (Mishra, 2017).The Myers Briggs personality indicator has existed since 1943 and is a reliable way to understand the behaviours and preferences of particular individuals (The history of the MBTI® assessment, … Read more

Together we can make a difference to a unified Australia.

 Have you ever thought of the history of the new Australia you live in today? In history, we learn about the World's most catastrophic and memorable events; the eradication of Jews in WW2, the ongoing controversy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the revolt against the French nobility during the French Revolution; BUT have you ever … Read more

The Association between Reward Processing and Impulsivity in Addictions: A Functional MRI Study

 Rationale: Evidence suggests that abnormalities in reward processing and impulsivity contribute to the pathophysiology of addiction. However, the relationship between the two is currently not well characterised. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging during reward and inhibitory control tasks as well as subjective measures of impulsivity to investigate the association between reward and … Read more

Investigating Interference of Visual Attention & Locomotion in Real-world Environments w/ MoBI & EEG

 Abstract Dual-task methodology and Mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) has been increasingly put in use to understand cognitive motor interference (CMI) while behaving actively in a real-world environment. In the current study, we investigated whether act of walking and displacement through space interfere with visual selective attention using a dual-task paradigm. We assessed young females … Read more

Informed Consent: A Necessity for Qualitative Research Studies

 Informed consent is an extremely significant part of qualitative research for sociologists. Qualitative research involves human participants, and is all about analysing these people and their experiences. Informed consent means that the participant fully understands what the study is about, what will happen during and after the study, as well as the risk and … Read more

Support Women in Business: Help Create a World Where Anything is Possible

 Why is it important to support women in business? Nowadays is much more common to see female entrepreneurs in our society. From Oprah Winfrey to Arianna Huffington –founder of the Huffington Post–, women throughout history have been proving their excellence and capability in business, tearing down all the expectations of their male counterparts and … Read more

It can have a ripple effect…The Uses and Dangers of Radioactivity on Earth

 "Radioactivity is a part of our Earth. Commonly occurring radioactive materials appear through the Earths crust, the walls and floors of our homes, work, school, and on the food we eat and drink." (https://www.iaea.org/Publications/Factsheets/English/radlife) Even the air we breathe. Radioactivity is when an atom decays or breaks down into smaller elements and  releases ionising … Read more

The high and low culture divide of communication & media science: a look at idealist & materialist approaches.

 Culture has a central role in communication and media science. However, culture itself does not have a correct definition of its concept. Basically, culture serves as a tool that is useful for individuals in everyday life, so the definition of culture does not need to be debated by the theorists. Williams (1981, 1983) once … Read more