How successful have the post-communist states been in establishing a stable democracy? ... In compliance with this thought, we will also look at freedom house, which gives an annual report on the levels of freedom' in each particular country, again proving essential to identify who is progressing and who is lagging or at a standstill. ... Democracy can be very hard to define, as there are many criteria that deem to be essential to some political thinkers, yet hardly relevant to others. ... When one thinks of an autocratic government now, it is hard not to associate it with the human c...

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"We are paupers. ... In the early 1930's, after nearly a decade of failed compositions, a change came about in the Soviet's attitudes towards the arts. ... This is just one example of how the culture and the time can affect how its audience perceives a piece of music. ... Due to his views and refusing to be forced to change them, Prokofiev's work suffered profoundly. ... As we can see here, it is very common for the audience not to be able to separate the composer from his works, therefore seeing the composers own views in the music, seeing the music as a political piece even ...

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How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems Introduction The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how overpopulation causes social problems. ... Social problems can be defined in many different ways. ... Others experience problems from technological change or declining neighborhoods, others are affected directly by crime and violence in their own neighborhood, and sometimes definitions of social problems are changed by society because of changes around you. ... Postmodernist insist that the change is so great that a more complex and far less hopefu...

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With this evidence, scientists are learning how climate changes over time. ... The other 68% of emissions are affected more by the types of industries in the U.S., the types of offices we use, how our food is grown, and other factors. ... Even a small increase in temperature over a long time can change the climate. ... They also include the air we breathe and the water we drink. ... How people and nature adapt to climate change will determine how seriously it impacts human hea...

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It also teaches people how to calm their mind and body, so they can feel better, think more clearly, and make better decisions. ... The statement later reads, "If I had to see a psychiatrist, it meant that I was probably going insane, and this thought made me even more frightened. ... (Greist & Jefferson1992) Depression in Adolescents How prevalent are mood disorders in children and is an adolescent with changes in mood considered clinically depressed? ... This "distraction" could include increased disruptive behavior, self-inflicted isolation and even verbal threats of suicide. So how can the...

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I noticed that the low levels of management at our organization had been the main factor as to why we had the low levels of production. ... There are several things that I have to ask myself, like how can my leadership work well with people? And how I personally affect the way I work with people and how do people think of my leadership. ... I used to listen to their thoughts patiently, even if I knew they were unfruitful (Rowe, 2011).I would not point out that they wrong, rather I used to suggest that their way was good, but my way was better so the way which yielded maximum result was to be o...

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Nature and nurture intertwined even before we are born. ... Several theorists have attempted to identify the stages of cognitive and physical development, and in the process, have changed the way we think about the human body and mind. ... Cognitive development is associated with the changes in an individual's reasoning, thoughts and intelligence reflected by a modification in language referring to memory and concepts. ... Children's thought processes change as they mature physically and interact with the world around them. ... Each stage is marked by shifts in how kids understand ...

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Democracy nowadays is a word much used and even more misused. ... Many Roman political thinkers were fond of democracy. ... In essence, these two philosophers said that the people should have input on how their government is run. This school of thought paved the way for modern day American Democracy (Lefebvre). ... Chapter 3 Models of Democracy To better understand the problems democracy faces, we must first understand the principles of democracy. ...

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Group dynamics can be studied in various settings. ... This communication conveys understanding of the thoughts and the feelings of the members of the group. ... This number was soon to change with a reduction of two and an addition of one. ... Our new group member Stacey (number 10) changed our scales of balance, which were divided evenly in to three categories structured, unstructured, and uncertain. ... Another advantage of consensus is that it can set the stage for a clear action plan. ...

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Ellis has come up with a linkage of cognitive and emotional process in his "A-B-C" model, which says that people can change the way they feel by changing the way they think about their experiences. ... Another one is changing language which the client learns to use patterns that reflect positive self-less statements in turn the client will learn to think and behave different. ... Reality therapists believe that people are responsible for their own behavior and how they think and feel. Its focus is on the present thoughts and behaviors rather than old stuff or unconscious motivations. ... T...

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Furthermore, two contrasts can be observed. ... I believe that Fassbinder uses contradiction and contrast to demonstrate in a direct manner how unfounded our prejudices are, how little society thinks about issues before it forms an opinion on them and how even the victims can find themselves becoming perpetrators if social pressure on them is great enough. ... And so we see that social ostracism changes to accommodating exploitation' (Elsaesser, 1996: 281). ... On the other hand, the Brechtian mechanism counteracts this, providing distance, time to think and to realise that it is not ...

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Whatever problem arises in society needs to be thought of as a problem of a larger scale. ... He also states "theory is only a help if we can learn from it, and we can only learn form it if we can use it"" (p. 5). ... We can use the example of punishment as a social institution to show how using this quality of mind can help up think of something through different angles. ... Using this quality of mind, we can see that penalty covers several of elements, which happen to create this prison institution. ... It is here where we need to take into account the history, biography, political sanctions...

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This has definitely changed my thought process about what makes up my body, and everything I learned can be put to use as I strive toward a career in the medical field. ... Nature versus nurture, to me, was one of the most interesting aspects we discussed because I've never really thought about what makes me who I am. ... Nurture Analysis as it made me think about how I got my personal traits such as hard-working, which through this I discovered was both nature and nurture due to my family and adapting to the friends I've grown up with. ... Later, we would go on to perception (h...

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These thoughts, however, can be detrimental to health, especially when it leads students to making careless nutritional decisions. ... Often women engage in discussion that is saturated in comments about our looks, especially our body weight, and this causes much focus to be put on how many calories are consumed, rather than the nutrients needed. ... Therefore, even though she was apparently starving, she decided to refrain from nourishing her body in order to keep her "calorie count" under the recommendation. ... These types of feelings can be produced with even mild or short-term d...

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He uses the Signorelli example to illustrate how a forgotten memory might be closely knit to a repressed one, therefore making it unattainable by conscious cognitive processes. ... In the second chapter, Freud deduces that a man forgetting the world "aliquis" – more specifically his attempt to recall the word from a foreign language – can be attributed to a line of accompanying thoughts that are all themed by a woman's menstrual cycle, further exemplifying the unconscious' role in the retrieval of a forgotten word. ... Freud concludes that the mistakes in speech...

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Under the anthropological problem we have the problem of Reality, Nature of Reality, Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence, Space and Time, Causality, Freedom and Determinism and the Mind-Body problem. ... CARTESIAN DUALISM While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of René Descartes, French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. ... He (Descartes) thought that if true knowledge is to be attained then we mu...

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This is perhaps best summarized by the words of Arthur, a Buddhist character in her book, A Word Child, who theorises "I don't think we all exist that much I mean one's mind is just an accidental jumble of stuff. ... It isn't even a pantomime" (Oates, 1978: 7). ... What Murdoch is essentially saying here is that only in our "illusioning fantasy" can we have a self or conceive "ourselves" to be fulfilled, perfected and complete. ... Hence, these thinkers provide a deeper understanding of Murdoch's statement that "We are as real people, full of blankness and jumble", as...

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We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast...

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Despite being a profoundly smart individual, Will Hunting still suffered emotionally in a way he thought he could never heal, even if he wanted to. ... Humans cannot change their thoughts-they can only change the behavior that is brought out from the thought itself. ... We use schemas to make sense of the chaos around us. ... Every human being thinks differently because they are composed of completely different factors-even twins. ... We are shown throughout the duration of the movie how Will Hunting progresses from being unwilling to experience any new emotions into someone who eventually lea...

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I think Ultima's entry into Antonio's life will start a stressful time Antonio. ... Antonio's thoughts in this chapter indicate a new obsession with sin and punishment. ... Ultima does not tell him what to think; rather, she tells him how people like his father and Narciso make moral decisions. ... Or does the dream mean that becoming a priest does not save Antonio from sin as his mother thinks? ... She continually contrives to show Antonio how his radically different heritages can coexist harmoniously within him. ...

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We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. ... I think this was a productive and easy way to try and get readers to easily identify works as literary. ... Ancient Greek thought held that poetry, drama, and other forms of fine art were imitations of reality, a reality that could be actual or potential. Indeed, their phrase for what we think of as "fine art" was "imitative arts", and great importance was attached to poetry as an integral part of the Greek education. ... How is it being imitated, is the imitation a straight copy, a distortion o...

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This paper examines what lifestyle diseases are, the various types of lifestyle diseases and some of their causes, uses the psychosocial theory of social epidemiology to explain how lifestyle diseases are caused and gives specific steps that can be taken to prevent these diseases. ... It has been discovered this happens because of the defective lifestyle that we follow. A lifestyle is the pattern of living that we follow - how we work, what and when we eat, how and when we sleep, how much physical activity we partake in and whether we smoke or consume alcohol (Home Science in Daily Life). ...

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Socrates is known as one of the greatest philosophers of all time, but he never actually wrote any of his thoughts down on paper. Most of what we know about him comes from the writings of Plato, who was one of his students/followers. ... The origin of Socratic irony can be traced back to when the Oracle of Delphi told a friend of Socrates that no man was wiser than Socrates. ... Paula Gottlieb argued in her response to Vlastos' article that she did not really think Plato changed the meaning of irony; it was more a result of the fact that Plato had two different intended audiences. ... Thi...

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1984 is a classic dystopian novel published in 1949 by George Orwell that has influenced generations of writers and thinkers. ... The sense of habitation within the society in 1984 is essentially forced onto the citizens, with thought police doing their best to monitor what people think, and so the sense of understanding typical in an epoch of habitation is shoved into the citizens face as a method to try and control them. ... In 1984 the citizens are fed a consistent feed of information on how powerless, and how dominated they are by Big Brother, which creates an atmosphere where the average ...

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He realises "how many things [he] had accepted as true in [his] childhood, and how doubtful were the things that [he] subsequently built on them". ... However, it has been questioned just how "necessary", "straightforward" or "obvious" this overturning is. ... We can recognise that our senses have deceived us and thus correct them. ... He argues that "if a person affirms, doubts, thinks or questions that he is sound asleep, then he is not sound asleep". ... Descartes argues that although we do not know whether we are awake or asleep, we can know that things are at least copies of reality o...

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