A sudden heavy rain can have a dramatic effect on streams, and the Yanomamo therefore avoid larger streams when it comes to selecting garden and village sites (Chagnon 1997: 46). ... Sometimes several different groups of men in a village make their own batch (Chagnon 1997: 54). ... Each family builds its own section of the roof. ... In order to be selected, a site must be suit for growing plantains. ... The comparative simplicity of Yanomamo material culture contrasts sharply with the richness and ingenuity of their beliefs about the cosmos, the soul, the mythical world, and the plants and ...

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It is the director or designer who selects the source materials and who shapes the performance. ... They function in a larger cultural context and are products of their society, with which they interact. ... Beside this choice a director must decide if his/her fairies are close to mankind or alien creatures. ... The first fairy to appear on stage in A Midsummer Night's Dream describes her task to the audience: "To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be. ...

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Luckily, since Jurgis is so strong and large he easily finds a job and is introduced to the corrupted society of Packingtown. ... The Packingtown gene pool trys its hardest to naturally select for the vilest, cruelest, most evil sides of mankind possibly imagined. ... In the stockyards animals are kept in unsanitary, filthy, cramped pens where they are covered in their own feces, and that of the animal next to them. ... But some strange behavior on Ona's part leads Jurgis to find out that her boss is taking advantage of her and having affairs with her. ... While in jail Jurgis befriends J...

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Eight feet tall and hideously ugly, the monster is rejected by society. ... One can argue that Victor himself is a kind of monster, as his ambition, secrecy, and selfishness alienate him from human society. ... Victor begins to recognize his responsibility as he states, I murdered her. ... This project from www.coursework.info Scientific endeavors aside, the quests of Victor and Walton seem to both provide a connection to the feminine nature of their souls. ... By the time Walton comes into contact with Victor, he has been separated from his sister and society for quite some time. ...

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(Robinson) In Islam, Muslims believe in a resurrection, the rising from the dead were the soul reunites with the body after they die. ... Based on the Islamic beliefs system explored, as society evolves to become more conservative or liberal the focus does not shift from the concepts of the afterlife. ... Generally, dharma refers to the duties and responsibilities of a person, often in relation to his or her birth, caste, and community. ... In addition, their soul which is also called atmanAtman Atman is a core concept of Hinduism. Literally meaning "breath" or "self," atman may be variously t...

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What we value in today's society is misguided and corrupt. ... According to Dante the soul does live after physical death. It [the soul] goes on enduring and remembering the things that happen to it. ... But in my view your soul dies with you. ... The belief that the soul returns into a different entity is absurd. ...

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It is the great pedagogic experimental station of the new society.... ... An anarchist since his student days in Paris, he had followed Emma Goldman's philosophy closely in her magazine, Mother Earth, and after attending one of her lectures, he described her in his diary as "a woman of remarkable address and convincing presence.... ... Henri cautioned his students against succumbing to the temptation of the group mentality; large societies are the death of creativity; "schools" of art never confine the truly great artist. ... Like a dancer, the central, dominant figure stands boldly facin...

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He cannot form his own opinions without relying on the views of others and decides to emphasize the material aspects of life. ... What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army."" ... Lewis chooses the word "appointed- instead of "elected- to establish the attitude that an individual's vote is futile in selecting the "right one."" ... Regarding the details of everyday living, Thoreau selects a simple menu to live upon, and with the trial of a few experiments, concludes that one only needs...

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The Innovation and Development Team followed a 5-step process to select and execute the experiments in bank branches. ... They then selected 20 banks from the wealthier areas of Atlanta they reconfigured them into 3 different presentations. ... What are the Great Company Core Values as defined by Leonard Berry in the Soul of Service? ... In Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard Berry h...

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In this society it was unusual, but not impossible, for a miller's son to aspire to any position, regardless of the amount of education required. ... Jacob had studied in Italy, a luxury available to only a select few of the aspiring artists of the day. ... Rembrandt, also, made drawings after some of Lastman's works which he later used for his own compositions and paintings. ... After leaving the apprenticeship of Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt worked with and became very close friends with Jan Lievens in a business that was owned by a man by the name of Paulus. Rembrandt was unhappy i...

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Patroclus's return to battle foreshadows Achilles' return to battle, for example, and Hector's taunting of the dead Patroclus foreshadows the desecration of his own corpse by Achilles. Also, Achilles and Hector themselves make references to their own fates-about which they have been informed; technically, only Hector's references foreshadow any event in the poem itself, however, as Achilles dies after the close of the epic. ... When Virgil controls the narration, the point of view includes the actions of the gods as well as the human story; Aeneas, in his storytelling, doe...

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He sought to destroy commonly held myths through his writings and by identifying, selecting and promoting a talented group of well-educated African-Americans to become leaders and role models in their communities. ... Finally, in the autumn of 1926, a group of young Black writers produced their own literary magazine, Fire!! ...

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In the U.S. throughout the Diaspora, the African generally received the death penalty for practicing his or her birthright. ... The meaning of this is that each family has its own tradition, and therefore its own historically determined name-group. ...

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They did not know the person who owned the Rolls Royce but clearly they felt a strong antipathy towards him. ... Of course he will continue to over idealise his mother at times and hate her at other times. ...

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The New Right looked at American society and saw a disappearance of personal morality, the absence of chastity and sobriety, the shirking of responsibility, and a loss of national strength and stature in foreign policy. ...

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What Shamanism Is By the Silver Circle Shaman (pronounced SHAH-maan) is a word from the language of the Tungus people of Siberia. A Shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness at will. The Shaman does this to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality to acquire kn...

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