Darwin applies this concept in animals (pigeons and livestock) as well as plants. ... Examples of this are when seed-raisers remove the plants that do not meet standard or how breeders will almost instinctively prevent their worst animals from breeding. ... With this fluid view of the terms, it is easier to see how a set group of plants or animals can possibly change categories. ... Instincts are a broader aspect of a species that natural selection can affect, but domestic selection ignores. ... Instincts also vary between individuals of a species. ...

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Each character experiences the competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live morally, act peacefully, follow the true and the good or the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act violently and enforce one's will. ... This divine bow made in civilised way is used for primitive ends of survival, making the great archer, who owns the formidable bow of Hercules, as savage and elemental as the island that he inhabits: he hunts wild animals and birds, lives in a cave - his animal den. ... A further paradox is that the hunter is being hunted like a wou...

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This job allowed Darwin to explore geological formations, fossils and living animals on different islands and continents. ... After the catastrophist event plant and animal life were the created individually and immutable. ... His reasoning began to bring into focus how animals evolved. ... Lombroso concluded that in any population, there are a small percentage of people that were likely to exhibit primitive instincts. ... In a civilized community where all the needs of the modern man are convenient thus eliminating the need for these primal instincts. ...

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Few psychoanalytic concepts have been used as widely as the concept of instinct for explaining abnormal development. ... Yet the concept of instinct has been widely debated. Freud himself proposed many theoretical formulations and remained critical of all his efforts to formulate a fixed theory of instinct. A definite progression can be recognized in his concept of the instinctual drives, represented in the id, from the reflex arc scheme of a self-contained closed system, unrelated to the outer world (1915), toward a more modern biological view of instinct as "a tendency innate in living orga...

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I. Introduction The horror movie has been a curiously gratifying medium for over one hundred years due to its almost paradoxical effects on the human mind. Since the first horror movie in 1896, people of all ages have spent precious hours of their weekends making their way to the local cinema, spending their hard-earned money on movie tickets, finding a seat in one of many crowded rooms, and sitting down in darkness for hours, all in the hope that this newest horror release will genuinely disturb them. Perhaps some in the theater just want to experience the thrill associated with death and ...

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This he says can be done by getting rid of coercion and suppression of instincts, and allowing men to put the time and effort in acquiring wealth as well as enjoying it. ... Though the first prohibitions separated a man from his animal condition, others can be more harmful. ...

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Over the past decade, the notion of zombies - dead humans who've died and come back to life as drooling, growling, flesh-eating monsters - has risen to new heights in popular culture. In this essay, I will discuss the scary, violent role zombies have played on TV and in movies. George Romero's, "The...

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Taken from the novel, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, the quote, " in pulsing dark, crouched, I holding on, clutching tight, rocking, somewhere behind the gate, and a dark red clotting light and pressure and pain and then OUT into a flat white light where shapes move and things flash and glitter...

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The existence of behavioral traditions--that is, patterns of behavior transmitted by social rather than by biologic hereditary means--has definitely been established for non-human animals. ... The question of whether the difference between the mind of man and that of animals is one of kind or of degree has been debated for many years, and even today reputable scientists can be found on both sides of this issue. But no one who holds the view that the difference is one of degree has adduced any evidence to show that animals are capable of a kind of behavior that all human beings exhibit. ... The...

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The Fibonacci sequence comes up everywhere in nature from the branches and leaves on trees, to the reproductive cycle of certain animals. ... Going back into music, many musicians tend to divide their songs up into separate parts in accordance with the author's instinct. ...

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The personality theorist, according to the editor of one of the leading journals in the field (Funder, 1994), has "an interest in what individual human beings think, feel, and do," including "how the social situation affects and is affected by the individual." Personality theory, wrote Walter Mische...

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This has created a society that accepts information as the Great Truth, but as Aldous Huxley has demonstrated in his essay, "Propaganda in a Dictatorship," in order to discover the truth in media, one must critique everything that is read, not fall to instinct, and "have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts" (para. 8). ...

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The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...

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The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...

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