Whereas taking retribution as a justifying aim would conflict with the aim of social benefit, retribution in distribution merely places a restriction on the unqualified pursuit of that aim. ... It has the socially beneficial aim of deterring crime. ... I shall argue that it is through punishment that victim and community express their outrage at the victim's being devalued. ... Expressivist theories acknowledge--and rightly so--that punishment expresses condemnation towards the criminal. ... What is required is a justification that has the resources to deal both with the social institutio...

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The @LIS Programme, bridging EU and Latin America on IS issues The cooperation programme @LIS-Alliance for the information society - is the result of the political dialogue between the Heads of State or of Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1999 and aims at extending the benefits of the information society to all citizens in Latin America and at reducing the digital divide between those who have access to the new information technologies and those who are excluded from the information society. ... A first action known as "Po...

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The programs must aim to change those who want to change. ... The aim of group counseling is to develop positive peer pressure that will influence its members. ... The programs must aim to change those who want to change. ... The aim of group counseling is to develop positive peer pressure that will influence its members. ... Also the members might not express their opinions openly because the others might see it as "snitching." ...

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Shylock, is evidently vilified by an anti-semitic society, where hostility and acrimony is aimed at him due to him being a Jew. ... Shylock's anger is expressed when he highlights the fact that he will be seeking revenge upon the Christians when he says 'the villainy you teach me I will execute', and declares he will do it better than they have, when he claims 'I will better the instruction'. ... Portia 'may neither choose whom she would nor refuse whom she dislikes', which she quoted while expressing her opinion on her father's will in Act 1, scene 2....

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In this system, functions are complex activities that are aimed at meeting a need or the needs of a system. ... He says that action can be rational and be either aimed at functions within the system or simply expressing nature. ...

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Drew Milne (1996) elegantly expresses this with his comment: "Marxism tries to offer a critique of the ideological distortion of human interests, recognising the relation between civilisation and barbarity in literature, but without simply mirroring the current system of production." ... The tone that Sinclair uses, at times, borders upon a satire of Victorian Middle England and this can be expressed through some main examples: Economic factors, the social hierarchy, patriarchal authority and lastly through social rank and differences. ... Frean expresses the news t...

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Henry David Thoreau helped to propel this movement, expressing his own deviance through writing. ... "No aim, that I have ever cherished, would they recognize as laudable; no success of mine had ever been brightened by success let them scorn me as they will" (Hawthorne, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1337). ...

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Naomi Wolf also quite accurately depicts how this female rivalry exists in pop culture and how it wrongly aimed more towards very young female audiences. ... Mark Heyman, co-screenwriter, mentions that he was interested in the way the strict hierarchy of the ballet world threw this kind of power play into sharp relief, and found it compelling that female dancers express their cutthroat rivalry in a context that is very indirect that intense aggression is expressed in a way that is very polite and restrained. ...

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In the photo art piece, entitled Cause Beautiful: Hipstamatic Aims to Empower Young People, Olivier Laurent delivers to the viewer a fascinating puzzle regarding the underlying basis of identification among a group of African American youths. ... Fashion In Gonrow's article is a way to safely express oneself, and express one's interests. ... This tension is visible in Laurent's photo, where all four young people dress in a way that communicates a strong sense of group belonging, but at the same time individual attitudes and needs are expressed, such as the girl's need to di...

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This study aims to discover if gender stereotypes still exist in today's modern society and, if they do, why they are perpetuated. ... Using the qualitative methodology of focus groups, this study aims to encourage participants to discuss their views on gender stereotypes in a relaxed, open environment. ... Furthermore, the study aims to answer the question 'can stereotyping ever be of benefit to a group' and to find out from a younger generation why they believe stereotyping is still prevalent in a modern society? ... At the seminar, the aim and procedure of the study was exp...

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This essay aims to discuss that attitudes may not always predict behaviour, and a number of other factors should also be considered. ... Utilitarian/Instrumental helps a person gain rewards and avoid punishments; if a person expresses social acceptable attitudes, they will easily adapt to particular social groups and may be rewards will approval or social acceptance. Value-expression allows someone to express their thoughts and beliefs to others. ...

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The DSM-5 now encourages clinicians to include the dynamic nature of culture – a construct that includes family values, social norms, individual experiences, and entire life histories (Lopez & Guarnaccia, 2000) – into the diagnostic process (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) This essay thoroughly describes the recent DSM-5 socio-cultural modifications, which aim increase cultural awareness in the identification, classification, and treatment of mental disorders. ... The DSM-5 has replaced "culture bound syndromes" with three concepts (1) cultural syndromes: "...

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The aim, however, is often the renunciation of the accepted norm rather than affiliation with rebellious sub-cultural sections of society. It is particularly difficult to express ones rejection of, or objection to, a culture if the culture in question already has a labeled stereotype to which any aspiring rebel conforms. ...

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Methodology With the aim of investigating theories behind conformity in daily life, we conducted the experiment at the East Gate elevator of University of Hong Kong in a group of seven. ... Uncomfortable expressions expressed by participants revealed the internal conflicts between their common sense and compliance to our group uniformity. ...

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In contrast, however, Asian nuclear families that tend to be quite numerous could also have a problem as having many children requires much divided attention and time which parents may not have, or if the mother is a housewife she would not have the experience to guide her children and be a role model for her daughters therefore the daughters would not aim very high, plus, this could also lead to financial instability, as such a numerous family would be living on one salary. ... It is seen as grammatically incorrect, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas which are important for...

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To this aim, the 16PF test results for the fictional "Mr. ... A person who cannot express him or herself well is typically a person who has a lessened ability to understand the communication efforts of others as well (Keller, 1997). ...

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"The era between 1895 and 1920 included a series of movements, each aiming in one way or another to renovate or restore American society, values, and institutions." ... The campaigns were individualistic and simple-minded with several different conflicting groups, only aiming at a quick answer to a single problem, making the protests. ... Different interest groups were starting to speak up and express their discontent with political and social issues. ...

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Before the "critical realignment" of the political parties in the 1990's, the three major parties, Liberal, Conservative and NDP each formed federations aimed at recruiting women to join the parties. ...

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For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... Third, communication is a process sustained by the use of symbols people use to express themselves or to interact with others. ...

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Political parties must perform a multitude of pressing tasks in the political system, which often results in the exclusion of certain social interests. The Canadian electorate, therefore, has become disillusioned with political parties and social movements have emerged as key actors in the promotion...

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However, a definition of what an organized criminal group has been stated as: "A structured group of three or more persons existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offenses in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit" (Lyman and Potter, 2015, p. 10). ... After the positive feedback that was expressed by consumers, the producers decided to provide the consumers with a second and third part to the movie that reinforces stereotypes of organized crimes and criminals. ...

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Abstract In recent years, many critiques expressed their concern about the social issue of gender in Western cultures. ... The aim of this assignment is to discuss how Critical Psychology helps to develop a critical view on gender, also discussing sexual ideologies in our culture and how these are formed throughout our life-span. ... According to their gender they will know how to behave, how to dress, what to like and what aims they should work for in life. ...

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Literature itself has no defined meaning. In the beginning introduction of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton states numerous definitions of literature to prove the point that there has yet to be one specific definition. Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in a language that sounds different from the reader's one: "If everyone used phrases like 'unravished bride of quietness' in ordinary pub conversation, this kind of language might cease to be poetic" (5). Eagleton's definition connects literature and society by giv...

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The aim is to make as large a profit as possible, thereby maintaining efficiency and taking advantage of available opportunities to innovate and contribute to growth. ... The new contract represents the idea that business has "an obligation to work for social as well as economic betterment." [20] This idea was expressed by the Committee for Economic Development as follows: [21] Today it is clear that the terms of the contract between society and business are, in fact, changing in substantial and important ways. ...

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The latter of the two was the collective social struggle for equality that aimed to eliminate forms of oppression based on gender and to free women from male supremacy. ... A white, female participant in the Civil Rights Movement expressed the common second-class status shared by both white women and black women when she spoke of her observations in Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, saying that she learned from black women that "I wasn't so free myself, and I began to worry about that" (Hole & Levin, 1971, p.114-116). ...

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