Methodologies 4.1 Rational Unified Process (RUP) What is the purpose of the RUP? ... (The Rational Edge, 2001). ... (Doug 2001) What is the Rational Unified Process? ... Why Rational Unified Process? ... The advantages of Iteration are:  Avoids risks  More manageable on the changes  Encourages re-use  Learn along the way  Better quality Strengths and weaknesses Strengths of the Rational Unified Process  The Rational Unified Process is based on the principles such as taking an iterative, requirements-driven, and architect...

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The term art can also be used to designate one of several forms of expression such as filmmaking, painting, music, dance, architecture, sculptures, literature, and many other modes of aesthetic expression. Aesthetic expression has been present throughout history. Prime examples of ancient aesthetic expression are the pyramids. ... We can see the usage of pyramids in literature, movies, videos, plays and several other forms of aesthetic expression. ... The latter are concerned with skill of expression in language, speech, and reasoning. ...

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The Thought of One Ayn Rand, the author of many inspirational novels is one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century. She defines her self as, "I am not primaraly an advovate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recog...

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A Decade of Negro Self-Expression. ... The critics, like the writers, were monolithic thinkers, some critics considered the literature a "disservice" to African American interests, some praised the freedom of expression and experimentation of the writers; and others called on the conjoining of the literature with political, social, and literary agendas. ...

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A Decade of Negro Self-Expression. ... The critics, like the writers, were monolithic thinkers, some critics considered the literature a "disservice" to African American interests, some praised the freedom of expression and experimentation of the writers; and others called on the conjoining of the literature with political, social, and literary agendas. ...

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Our education system places most emphasis on activities involving intellectual expression, such as science, and least on activities involving emotional expression, such as poetry and art. When we ignore aspects of our functioning, our dreams will redress the balance by giving 'symbolic' expression to these aspects, while at the same time attempting to give healing for the conditions', which cause us to ignore these aspects in the first place. ... Say your soul wants you to be less analytical rational in your approach to life and to incorporate intuition feelings into the ...

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Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act on the threat. ... Positivism and natural law: Finnis says positive law is necessary medium for the expression of natural principles and development of a communal environment in which the "goods are attainable. ... Natural law creates a rational basis for determination of positive law and also a criteria for i...

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"The development of medieval witchcraft is closely bound to that of heresy, the struggle for the expression of religious feeling beyond the limits tolerated by the Church. ... He says, "Now in these works of magicians, things appear that are exclusively the work of a rational nature; for instance, answers are given about stolen goods, and the like, and this could not be done 3. ... They could be done about by a normal, rational, intelligent human being. ...

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Empty center means as much that the culture has no rational foundation. Unlike for example in the West the foundation can be an ideology like rationality or Christianity. ... Experience and expression are one, as are rationalism and irrationalism or conscious and unconscious. ...

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Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. These guys were tough, they were constantly exposed to heat, hard headed, domineering and egois...

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Others approached Lord of the Flies through the theories of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who taught that the human mind was the site of a constant battle among different impulses-the id (instinctual needs and desires), the ego (the conscious, rational mind), and the superego (the sense of conscience and morality). ...

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"Enter: Philosopher, and lo! He proves to you it must be so- (Faust: 1928-29) Can Faust, pre and post Mephistopheles, be seen in an either Nietzschean or Schopenhauerian light? Introduction. This piece of work grew out of reading chapters four and five of Walter Kaufmann's book The Ow...

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Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to be rational, objective individuals. ... Gender is very much about how people perceive us, and our behaviour (personality, identity and self-expression) determines how we will be "perceived." ...

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According to Christianity Today journalist Douglas Groothuis, unbelievers from "Epicurus to David Hume to Hitchens have denied that one can rationally believe in a God who is both all-good and all-powerful"" (47). ... Sproul puts this into perspective when he writes, "The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. ...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile ca...

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Personality research has long been a fringe player in the study of consumer behavior. Little research is directly devoted to personality issues, and if consumer personality is investigated at all, it tends to be from the narrow perspective of developing yet another individual difference measure in an already crowded field of personality scales or considering the moderating effects of a given trait on some relationship of interest. Understanding the individual person in his or her role as a consumer should be a key issue in the study of consumer behavior, but in order to realize this vis...

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Equal to other malcontent characters of the age, "Hamlet [...] is a bitter critic of the society in the midst of which he is placed."9 As other malcontents do, he "[...] finds expression in the form of bitter self-abuse, both in soliloquies, like Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I. ...

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Vince Lombardi Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest coaches to ever grace the side lines of a football field. Before he began his coaching career, Lombardi taught Latin and chemistry at a New Jersey high school. He began his head coaching career at the age of 46 with the Green Bay Packers. I...

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Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (John 3:16, NRSV) "But to all who did receive him, ...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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What the body does is provide the soul with a vehicle for action in the world and expression of intentions and desires; and the soul pr ovides the body with animation and direction 5For another thing, the theory seems a neat way of reconciling the traditional view that the general resurrection does not occur until the eschaton with Jesus' statement to the good thief on the cross, " Today you wil l be with me in paradise " (L&. 23, 43). ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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Evil Macbeth EVIL MACBETH Darkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. There are only a few good people out there today. In Macbeth William Shakespeare proves to us that there is evil in all of us but in the end the good triupths. In this play the main character Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth represent evil the king and queen of Scotland become murderers and the most hated people. ...

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