Laura Mulvey in her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema states that 'in a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female' (Mulvey, 1975, 9) whereby men look and women are looked at. In order to break down the patriarchal hierarchy the 'active controller of the look' (Mulvey, 1975, 11) must be changed. ... Campion again destroys the active/passive split when Ada's husband locks her up after witnessing her have sex with Baines. ... At the start of the film, Ada and Flora share a deep loving relationsh...

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Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau while all being similar in many ways, also differentiate amongst themselves as well. This statement proves to be true when looking at several of there basic values, and principles. One of these basic principles is the belief that all the powers ...

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Honing Listening Skills If an interviewer has a normal tone of voice, an attentive and active way of listening, and a non-judgmental manner, he/she will maintain and even increase the candidate's interest in providing information. For an active listener, listening means hearing, comprehending, and remembering. ... Active listening is a communicative tool that provides opportunity for the following: • To show support and assist in relaxing the speaker. ... • To listen to the tones of the candidate's voice. ...

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While I haven't determined the relationship to the reader I understand that Douglass was using an active voice. ... While again we see an active voice, Eudora is present the entire time and is speaking presently. ... The voice is active, nothing used in past tense. ...

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Responses are either active or passive and within those confines, they can be constructive or destructive. The first response is the Exit Response, which involves withdrawing either physically or psychologically and is actively destructive; and are associated with the Lose-Lose and Win-Lose approaches. ... The final response is the Voice. ... The voice response is generally nurtured from Win-Win orientations in regards to conflict. A belief in yourself and in the other person is necessary to give voice to problems and disagreements. ...

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Angelou was active in the civil rights movement and worked side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. ... Her poetry gives voices to the voiceless and also to the people who feel like they have no other option but to be trod upon. ...

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The words of Prince exemplify the importance of the woman's voice in the anti-slavery campaign, while the controversy over her moral credibility challenges the principles of English society at that time. In many ways, her impact on history mirrors that of the myriad abolitionist women active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... These bold assertions of Prince's voice did not go unnoticed by the public. ....

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In the physical setting of a classroom the arrangement of furniture and the use of classroom materials may be predicated on the teacher's perception of the learners as passive or active. ... Motivating children means to focus on students needs and desires and permits active participation in the learning process. ... Here voice and space com in to play. Voice refers to the multifaceted and interlocking set of meanings through which students and teachers actively engage in dialogue with one another. ... Should teachers be change agents, actively working for changes in the existing schem...

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Jimmy Munday, one of the more outspoken characters in No Sugar is characterised as the activist and lone Aboriginal voice that is constantly challenging dominant white ideology. ... Realising he is relatively powerless against the oppressing white society Jimmy continues to treat the white authority with contempt, voicing the discrimination he feels: "You reckon blackfellas are bloody mugs. ... This illustrates the animosity towards Aboriginals throughout white society, through Jimmy actively resisting dominant white ideology from his marginalized position. ... This is due to her actively r...

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Features include: - An active patient base of more than 2,500 - "Busyness" issues - A focus on exit strategies - The desire to achieve a balance between personal and professional pursuits - The need to maximize cash flow to make the practice more desirable to buyers and to secure your financial freedom. ... These are the features of dentals in the Growth and exit stages are as follows: - An active patient base of less than 1,000 - High debt and low cash flow - Lack of organized office systems - A high degree of chaos; i.e., "growing pains... " - An active patient base whos...

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The Abyssinian is an active, intelligent cat that loves people. ... They are intelligent, actively seek interaction with humans and love to play games. ... Both Bombay and Burmese have a voice that is distinctive, but not as loud or harsh as the Siamese voice (cat fancier). ... The Tonkinese are quite active and love to run and jump, enjoying plenty of exercise (fortune City). ...

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These active women in Paris expressed their opinions and focused their energies through petitions, demonstrations, and later, physical acts of revolution. ... French women all over the country, although mostly in Paris, took an active part in the French Revolution. ... This document was a response to the new French constitution of September of that same year, "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," which divided the population into "active" and "passive" population according to wealth, social class, and sex. ... Throughout the French Revolution, specifically during the years of 178...

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My name's Alison Bryne Fields and as the head of MTV's "Rock the Vote" I understand how important it is for the youth's voice to be heard. ... Their ideas, needs, and wants are not heard because their voices are not heard through voting. ... np) MTV encouraged volunteering at shelters, protesting unjust laws or military movements, posting political forums, or doing really whatever got their voices heard. ... Gallup polls show that the average number of youth actively volunteering in their communities, state-wide, or even nationally, went up from 22% in the 80's to 46% in th...

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Using single photon emission topography (SPET) they measured regional cerebral blood flow with "the aim of identifying brain areas that are especially active during auditory hallucinations" (McGuire, Shah, and Murray, pg 703). ... This means that people who are hallucinating are probably not hearing the voices of others, but are listening to their own thoughts or their won voices and cannot recognize the difference....

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You go on with your ever day activities but the voices keep intruding. ... Your positive that the visions and voices are real, you don't know who to trust, what is real, and why this is happening to you. ... As soon as an imagined voice spoke, or a vision appeared, a patient pressed a button. ... When one patient reported seeing dripping colors and severed heads, for instance, the parts of the sensory cortex that process movement, color, and objects, became active. When patients hear voices, the auditory cortex as well as the language-processing areas became active (2001). ...

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Their organization was created in the early 1960's, and continues to be active on many college campuses today. ... Never had so many college-aged people been so active in the struggles to implement change in these arenas. ... This shows that young people from all parts of the political spectrum were making their voices heard. ... YAF"ers were active and influential in this area of society, especially since they were young and still or recently affected by educational policies. ... History does not normally recognize the significance of an organization of college students being able to...

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TB germs can stay alive years after years without becoming active. ... TB disease is when the germ becomes active. ... Inactive germs can become active due to your body defenses becoming weak. ... You have a day-to-day contact with a person who has active TB disease. ... When the unusual breath reaches your voice box, you can hear your hiccup. ...

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Other cues in communication can be such things as tone of voice, body language, or the use of symbols. ... Listening correctly is often called "active listening-. Active Listening Skills Stop talking- listen openly and with empathy to the other person Try not to be defensive Look at the person; be patient Ask the for as much detail as can be provide; paraphrase what the other is saying to make sure the correct meaning was received. Respond in an interested way that shows understanding of the problem and the employee's concern Attend to non-verbal cues, body langua...

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Young, old, handicapped, deaf, everyone has an opinion, a voice. But in today's world, getting your voice heard is hard, especially if you"re a teenager. ... It's a great way to learn all the sides of a situation, and to get a teenagers voice heard. It shows how many people actually care, and want to make a difference, and with a teenager involved, it shows that they aren't stupid, but actually active, and caring. ...

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"Forget about having a robust guiding voice, the victims have no voice at all," Teves continued. ... That's why we have been advocating for them to have a greater voice in the process. We have also actively supported the 7/20 Recovery Committee to improve communication and the ongoing distribution of assistance. ...

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Of course these ideas of supply and demand and active government didn't just come to him. ... The New Deal was a very active government plan because it had the government working directly to make jobs and fix the economy. ... For many years he was an active voice in economics. ... Roosevelt never publicly embraced Keynes' theories, and at times voiced disagreement with parts of his theories, there were many similarities between the works of the two men. ... Roosevelt the idea of an active government and John Maynard Keynes showed him how to do it. ...

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Of course these ideas of supply and demand and active government didn't just come to him. ... The New Deal was a very active government plan because it had the government working directly to make jobs and fix the economy. ... For many years he was an active voice in economics. ... Roosevelt never publicly embraced Keynes' theories, and at times voiced disagreement with parts of his theories, there were many similarities between the works of the two men. ... Roosevelt the idea of an active government and John Maynard Keynes showed him how to do it. ...

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NOW also promotes the idea of voting which will encourage women to continue to vote and stay politically active in their communities. ... The purpose of this organization was to mobilize women and give them power to pressure the government and employers versus now where the organization wants to empower women and encourage them to stay active in their government. ... The organization also partners up with political parties that give women a voice and support what NOW stand for. ... The Women's Suffrage movement was one of the issues discussed in the course texts and the way these women ...

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Hughes began writing in high school, and even at this early age was developing the voice that made him famous. ... Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. His innovations in form and voice influenced many black writers. ... Beginning in the 1930s, Hughes was active in social and political causes, using his poetry as a vehicle for social protest. ... Langston Hughes has earned a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced, but more than that Hughes has given a voice to the African American experience. ...

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