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1
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3 skills for a healthy relationship

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Insight-what is right for you
Mutuality -both people have needs
Emotion regulation- not lashing out

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How many Tutsi people killed in Rwanda genocide in what year

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800 000

1994

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3
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How was the first president under apartheid

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D.F. Malan

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4
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When was divorce act and no fault divorce established

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1968

1986

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5
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What amendment of the constitution led to end of slavery

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13th

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6
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When was columbine shooting

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Apr 20 1999

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7
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When was Montreal massacre

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Dec 6 1989

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8
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When was telephone invented

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1876

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9
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When was airplane invented

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1903

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10
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When was China’s one kid policy

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1976

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11
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What fraction of Canada’s population are baby boomers

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One third

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When was NAACP developed and who was a key person

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1909

WEB Dubois

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When was the universal declaration of human rights written and who wrote a large portion of it

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1948 by Canadian lawyer John Humphrey

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How many European Jews were killed during holocaust

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6 million

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15
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When did the first slaves arrive in colonial America

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1619

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16
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What year was the KKK founded and where

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1866 in Tennessee

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17
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Possible reasons for end of baby boom

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Birth control invention
More women's rights, more working and going to school, debt and career opportunities, and then age of marriage goes up 
Cost of living went up
Lack of religious customs 
Sexual revolution
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18
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3 major sources of cultural change provide examples

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Invention-new products or ideas like cellphones
Discovery- finding something that was previously unknown to a culture like global warming
Diffusion-spreading of ideas or tools from one place to another like soccer

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Three main categories of mental disorders with example and description

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Neuroses- high levels of anxiety like anxiety attacks
Psychoses- losing touch with reality schizophrenia
Anti-social personality disorder- pattern of rule breaking and harming others (serial killers)

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Three physical and environmental factors that decrease fertility and explain

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STDs- diseases like clamydia block Fallopian tubes
Estrogen- contraceptives in water decrease sperm count
Late births- having kids in 30s cusses less reproductive years remaining

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21
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4 categories of women who choose to be childless

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Hedonists- want to maintain a certain way of life money and time wise
Practical-don’t want to pass on genetic defects
Idealistic-feels the world is unfit
Emotional- have no emotional attachment to babies or kids

22
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When was birth controlled introduced in Canada

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1961

23
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Stages one goes through in order to reach their maximum potential
Psychological needs (water)
Safety needs (shelter)
Love and belongingness needs (relationships)
Esteem needs
Self actualization

24
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First women to win Cecil B Demille award for excellence and contribution in entertainment

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Oprah Winfrey just won it

Joan Crawford was first women

25
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John B Watson

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Psychological school of behaviourism

26
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Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis
Unconscious mind 
Id- satisfaction 
Ego- sense of self 
Superego- moral
27
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Nelson Mendela

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First black president of South Africa

Went to prison for fighting apartheid government

28
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Eli Whitney

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best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution

29
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Marshall McLuhan

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Encouraged people to consider the effects of new media on the individual and community
Developed four laws of media

30
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Alvin toffler

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Future shock book

Focus on learning how to adapt to control new changes brought on by technology

31
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Beverly Tatum

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We all have a racial identity and whites enjoy subtle rewards in Society
Important to engage in convos about race even though it’s awkward

32
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Peggy Macintosh

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White privilege knapsack

Carrying an invisible weightless backpack of skin colour privileges that the bearer takes for granted

33
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Ronald samuda

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Criticized the practice of using standardized intelligence tests on students from different racial backgrounds

34
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John Howard griffin

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Conducted and experiment of prejudice

Disguised as a black man he wasn’t aloud in washrooms or restaurants

35
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Johannes Gutenberg

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Printing press

Z

36
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Apartheid

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A strict system of laws that limited the rights and benefits of non whites

37
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Participant observation

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When anthropologists live with Thor subjects for a long time. They believe it helps them be accepted

38
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Charisma

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Magnetic style and having popular support and bits of extraordinary superhuman character

39
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Egocentrism

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The tendency for teens to focus on themselves and what others think of them

40
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Cognitive dissonance

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This occurs when an individual does something that is in direct opposition with what he or she believes is ok

41
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Surrogate

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Substitute or replacement

42
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Bargaining for reality

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The struggle for power by groups and organizations who try to convince others that their view is right

43
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Deviance

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Behaviour that goes against social norm

44
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Prejudice

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Set of opinions, attitudes, or feelings that unfairly place a group and it’s members into a negative light without proper reasons

45
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Discrimination

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Unequal treatment of people based on their race, gender, language, faith, sexual orientation

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Technosis

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Overblown dependency or attachment to technology

47
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Stereotype

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Widely heard idea about a particular type of people or thing

48
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Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

49
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Racism

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Discriminating against someone of a different race based on the belief that ones own race is superior

50
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Disparity

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A great difference

51
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Anti-Semtism

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hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews

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