He realizes that he has never truly distinguished the difference between his love and his desire for Gretta. ... This scene acts as an early lens into Gabriel's subconscious, giving the reader a sense of how he handles confrontation. ... As Gabriel watches her, he is depicted as overwhelmed with desire for his wife. ... This desire is central to the theme of paralysis that Joyce wants to get across to the reader, but not clear until Gretta unveils the story of Michael Furey, the boy who gave his life for her. ... A man had died for her sake because he truly loved her, while he remained pa...

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Starting off, Aristotle knows that for every action, there is a desired end result or reaction. Whatever this result may be, it always is some form of human good, although some desires are not universally accepted as being positively good. ... The ultimate desire of humans is the state of happiness. ... To clarify, Aristotle's usage of the word soul does not imply anything religious in nature, as the word conjures thoughts of religion and implications of the afterlife, but of one's developing subconscious with the precursor of cognizant choice. Moderation between two extremes of...

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I live in this nature with a yearning for gaining and attaining more from life, and I subconsciously focus on what I have and what I do not yet hold. ... Krishna says that strong emotions are caused by desire, and it expresses itself through action. It is this action attached to desire that must be transcended to achieve immortality. ... I agree with his idea that desire and passion come from a craving that leads to an action. ... A dark inertia is then what could possibly come from the ignorance in the desire for academic success. ...

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Abolishing our desire for luxuries means that we are able to live more sustainably, and make more efficient use of our finite resources. ... Aside from wasting away many hours of your life on the game, you're also subconsciously losing your social skills that are essential for your well being. ...

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It is a well established fact that need and desire effect the creation of our beliefs. Can it then be true that our religious beliefs are but a mere attempt to subconsciously justify ourselves? ... Mankind's relationship with God must be a mutually desired exchange, just as God cannot force us to believe, we cannot force God into dialogue with us. ...

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Abstract The study was predominantly conduced to test the stroop hypothesis that the meaning of colour words interfere with the colour of words when they are written in different ink colour for the text meaning. The research was conducted on a small sample of college students and a related measu...

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