Human Nature in Antigone Human nature plays an essential role in all of Greek drama. ... Human nature is an especially significant aspect of the Greek drama Antigone, by Sophocles. In this drama, Sophocles uses his main character, Antigone, to display his notion of human nature. ... Devotion to one's family is an aspect of today's human nature that is often lost or forgotten. ... The most prominent aspect of human nature in Antigone is that of the role of gender. ...

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One of the most controversial debates of modern society is the idea that our "natures?... How do nature and nurture influence the definitions of sex and gender? ... It exists in itself, and is sublimely indifferent to what humans think of it. ... Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?... The definition is clearly related to the dimorphism in humans. ...

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Nature vs. ... How do nature and nurture influence the definitions of sex and gender? ... It exists in itself, and is sublimely indifferent to what humans think of it. ... The definition is clearly related to the dimorphism in humans. ... Nature versus nurture is an ideal that is greatly argued. ...

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I realize now because humans are the ones contaminating the water. Therefore, we as humans are ultimately forcing oppression onto ourselves. ... As I stated before, pollution is a result of human actions, therefore pollution is one action concerning ecofeminists. ... However, it is because of women that humans are able to reproduce. ... There is a spiciest theory that argues how anything non-human is worth less simply because it isn't human. ...

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In the Republic Socrates" three waves are used to get rid of the tendencies of human nature so that his just city could work efficiently. ... Through this Socrates addresses the many forms of human nature that can distract from the concept of justice. ... While Socrates fails to address all forms of the problems of combining nature and conventional elements he does address enough of them to move his city along far enough to give his definition of justice....

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The worship of Dionysus ultimately showed the "oppositions between culture and nature, civilization and barbarity, the rational and the irrational, self-control and emotionality, which finally accrete themselves around the opposition between male and female"10 The opposition associated with the worship of Dionysus is reflected in general by an "inversion of normal roles"2, even on the part of men who must become a satyr to be involved in the rituals2. ... In fact it can be seen that "the communal Dionysia on the one hand and the mountain pilgrimage of the women on the other each empha...

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But perhaps none has been so dramatic and pervasive in its impact as women's slow acquisition of human rights. ... Respective roles of men and women are still undergoing profound change, in the process of transforming the nature of the family, society, culture and politics along with economics and the world of work. ...

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This is part of the person's nature, he is going to do what his nature compels him to. ... This is the nature of his mind. Nature and identity also characterize how the person acts. ... This nature can be seen in children too. ... For instance, belonging to a cult that believes in sacrificing animals or even humans would not give a person a very nice identity. ...

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This is part of the person's nature, he is going to do what his nature compels him to. ... This is the nature of his mind. Nature and identity also characterize how the person acts. ... This nature can be seen in children too. ... For instance, belonging to a cult that believes in sacrificing animals or even humans would not give a person a very nice identity. ...

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I found that men by nature were important and the female were less important, the male is the ruler and the female is the subject. ... Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time thought "men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership" of the household. Men, for example, are naturally adapted for movement, while women's nature is sitting and being patient, courage is given to men and fear to women so that man can defend the household and woman can preserve it." ... These great philosophers explain this as...

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The moment I opened my eyes on life, a state of enmity already existed between me and my nature" (Saadawi 10). I read this as being that she has a mutual hatred with her nature in accordance with her country's culture. When she breaks the traditions and becomes a doctor she begins a journey to reevaluate her core nature. She even goes into seclusion in nature to find herself. ... When she breaks down the wall of masculinity that she built to survive and cries into the chest of her lover, it is not showing the reader that she truly a weak, scared female, but that she is human and is tir...

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In Psychological Research there has always been concern of bias among several researchers. These researchers felt that it was evident that there was age, gender, racial, and ethnic bias. In age bias researchers found that certain words in the psychological language...

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Reverence your Guardian-Lord, Who created you from a single person, created of like nature his mate, from them scattered countless men and women. ... One, belief in God, and that He is the Lord and Creator of all humans. As such all humans are equal and have similar rights and obligations as servants of God. Second, all humans, men and women, are created "from a single person," (or "from a single pair of a male and a female"). ... Women are independent individuals, as exemplified by the fact that all human beings will be accountable for their own intentions and deeds on the Day of Judgment whe...

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Homosexuality Homosexuality- The Major Cause of Homosexuality The origins of human sexuality and homosexuality in particular have puzzled philosophers, theologians and ordinary people for thousands of years. ... Chances are no one factor or study can alone explicate and clarify the human sexual orientation. ... The nature of homosexuality primarily comes from one's biological sexual orientation and the environment is just a source to bring forth or repress the behavior Many researchers and scientists have long search for the distinguishable brain structures, the biochemistry...

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Lady Macbeth states, "I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it" (I, V, 3-7) fearing Macbeth will not take the nearest chance to commit the murder in order to take the throne. ... Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature (I, V, 30-33)," so she doesn't feel remorse and she can go on with her plan. ... Macbeth then doubts, "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix m...

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It is so bizarre in nature presenting a man who looks really excited having the women in the Hijet MPV. ... (Lal, The Crisis in human values) The ad assumes that by using the humor they can connect better with a wider audience yet they have degraded the woman's value, making them seen as easygoing objects rather than getting them more attention which is sexism. ...

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But perhaps none has been so dramatic and pervasive in its impact as women's slow acquisition of human rights. ... Respective roles of men and women are still undergoing profound change, in the process of transforming the nature of the family, society, culture and politics along with economics and the world of work. ...

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Artist Statement of: Nan Goldin "My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic...Snapshots are taken out of love and to remember people, places, and shared times. They're about creating a history by recording a history". (Nan Goldin) The photographs I produce enable you to see another wo...

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The film Ugetsu produced by Mizoguchi is considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films ever mad. Mizoguchoi's film making career started in 1922 and extended well past the postwar period (which followed the primitive period). It was after the postwar period when Mizoguchi's did his best work. ...

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After viewing Ridley Scott's, Alien, one may infer that, like many science fiction films that influence the film, tells the story of man versus nature. Where the nature of the alien is hunting them. ... I think he is doing this because of his lack of a human penis or phallic. ... At the end of this scene when Ash is taken down, his body spews out what appears to be human semen. ...

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./ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion/ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/ and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, / Against the use of nature?..." ... Especially if he was to consider to harm another human being just to prove masculinity. ...

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Is she, like Macbeth just an ordinary human being overcome with ambition? ... When the guests have departed she does not upbraid Macbeth, but makes excuses for him that he lacks "the season of all natures, sleep." ...

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The fact that Shakespeare made all three of the witches female illustrates the patriarchal nature of the culture in which the play was written. ... These implications represent thoughts encouraged by the other, the malevolent spirit within all humans. ...

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If we look at good Rubens we see a quality of flesh that is not visible in nature but is the result of Ruben's use of light. ... It is not generally recognized how close we come in this work to the style of "Guernica" both in its depiction of the human form and its color. The human form has been progressively dismantled since the "Self-Portrait" of 1907 and here a balance has been found between the realistic and the schematic. ...

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Technology has created a longer life for most humans as well as a higher infant survival rate. ... This is a very different practice than those of Islam, which opens the door for more awareness of human sexuality. ... Humans have a brain that creates awareness of others and what effect one's actions will have on others. Therefore, humans are better than animals, and so, should deny their own animalistic desires. ... The bible is filled with stories that demean women and make women seem to be the evil half of the human race. ...

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