Nationalism is a way for people to seek their own freedom and liberate themselves from those preventing the expression of their beliefs so that they can live surrounded by their own culture. ... We were given mouths for a reason, but sometimes people fail to use them rationally to solve their problems. ... Our textbook sets out the facts that this will never cease to exist, but the will of the mind, you wouldd think, should be able and rational enough to overcome the force of the fist. ...

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It satisfies these impulses by channeling them into productive tasks that benefit the greater good without allowing the release of their full expression and possible destructiveness. ... When the shell is then destroyed, it is the end of civility and rational behavior. ... Piggy is the rational problem solver, embodying intellect, and scientific thought. ... The boys have no contact with the outside world and must come up with their way to solve the problems of their society. ...

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Dadaism lad the foundations for Surrealism, a literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. ... His Epic Theatre" was in which narrative, montage, self-contained scenes, and rational argument were used to create a shock of realization in the spectator. ... Brecht aimed to give the theatre goer problems to solve and leave the ending of the play open ended, problems unsolved, waiting for the audience to go out into the real world and solve these problems for...

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All of these ideas seek to solve the mind-body problem in philosophy. ... Using this base of knowledge we can make reasonable, rational decisions based upon these past experiences. ... If the decision involves unpredictable outcomes, computers cannot think abstractly or reason through what another human is thinking by their facial expression, ma...

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His autobiography is a form of expression that is a teacher for the American dream. ... The problem of access to Braille and other forms of literature to the blind is being solved, as it ought to. ... And after observing this we can see the other side of the virtue as we also know that part of resolution is one making the decision to act in his or her rational self-interest. ...

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Abortion Introduction Abortion is one of the most controversial issues around concerning moral philosophy, and is an issue that will never be agreed upon. By bringing morals into the question of whether it should be legal to have abortions, this issue has been elevated to a higher level. By...

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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. However the point of this is not that he almost contradicts himself, but that it proves just how hard it was for the id...

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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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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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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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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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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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