Note the posture of the muse, with drapery that suggests her movement, and also the page of the Holy Scriptures that is in the process of turning. ... Another consideration of note is the theological imagery in the piece. ... The divine muse retains some small sense of spiritual elongation reminiscent of the earlier period, but both people are quite realistic when compared to Romanesque forms. ... As a side note, this work seems to be one of the earliest references to the spring-powered clock (Department of Medieval and Modern Europe). ... The piece is organized in a particularly open, uncl...

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When Alexis de Tocqueville, a man curious about the American way of life, visited the young nation, he took note of many of its distinctive characteristics, such as religion, politics, and the overall culture of American society. ... He notes that this is a beneficial relationship for both the church and the churchgoers, who seek a sense of independence from potentially tyrannical institutions, just as the found fathers sought to free themselves from England, but at the same time are looking for spiritual guidance. ... He makes the argument that while Americans may have a seemingly desirable...

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Many times, people confuse "management" with leadership, because managers and leaders have much in common. ... Another writer note, "But history has seen leaders like Hitler, who were outstanding in the basic sense of leadership; they influenced and even swept up millions of people, although their leadership was blatantly immoral and even destructive" (Popper 17). ... A writer notes, "Type-A (Fact Based) leaders are comfortable with people, tasks, and environments that require facts, logic, theories, scientific applications, analysis, quantitative, mathematical, and technical processes to re...

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This form, which doesn't go far enough to be defined as a new genre, but it does make the above films all have a narrative that is common within them. This commonality is the relationship that the political and social norms that a group of citizens struggling with a common entity have create a sense of camaraderie that defines this form. ... The film also uses the mise-en-scene of having most of the action take place in a town square invoking again the sense of communal relationships. The relationship is not only beneficial in a economic sense, its also allows gender roles to be evenly di...

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Furthermore, Cheechum stood as a symbol for Campbell's sense of cultural identification. ... In Melissa's Farley's article, "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women, "she notes that "for women, prostitution is intimately associated with poverty.... Separated from her original community, family and home she no longer had a sense of identity while living in Vancouver. ... Perhaps risk factors such as oppression, poverty, alcohol and drug abuse and family violence are all contributing factors as to why suicide among Aboriginal ...

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Millenia later, Swiss and German physicians would make note of individuals suffering from unpredictable moods that follow an equally disturbed and unpredictable course. ... One of the most common diangoses however uses a psychoanalytic approach, or the Freudian approach. ... From that framework, it could be argued that an infant is born without a sense of self and that this understanding of self gradually develops via the infants interactions with its environment. ... This means that a sense of an individualized self never actually develops and the child's development is held back at this...

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For example, Jacobs notes that the Stoic religion emphasized an "eternal cosmic cycle of birth, expansion, conflagration, contraction, and regeneration.""3 This cycle of the cosmos was later applied to the behavior of the universe and life. ... Jacob notes that rulers of 17th and 18th -century Europe encouraged the progression of science via the improvement of research facilities and the formulation of scientific meeting circles.5 This movement of scientific knowledge brought advancement. ... In Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Mercier asserts that "love of the marvelous...

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At the same time physical actions, in Stanislavski's sense of utilizing stage objects for the purpose of providing the scene with an atmosphere or reality - related the actor to the environment in which he found himself (Marker, 1975 pg. 15). ... Since Ibsen and Chekhov, the language of the common people has come to be used as the most appropriate medium in modern drama (Mahmoud, 1985, pg. 68). ... As William notes, the seagull is emphasised as a visual symbol – a piece of stage property – the action and the atmosphere and a device for emotional pressure between the two charac...

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Saussure's most influential work is the Course in General Linguistics (1916), a compilation of notes on his lectures. ... The sound-image is sensory, and if I happen to call it material, it is only in that sense, and by way of opposing it to the other term of the association, the concept, which is generally more abstract (66). ... A common mistake is to construe the signifier and the sign as the same thing. Another common mistake, perhaps related to the first, is to speak of a signifier without a signified or a sign, or to speak of a signified without a signifier or a sign. ... Bu...

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Due to this compression, the film is arguably less descriptive and is lazier' in the sense that responders are shown exactly what a setting looks like (according to the composer of the film) and are shown what a character is feeling through characterisation, facial expressions and other acting techniques. ... Through camera techniques such as close-up and pan shots, focussing on certain objects and zoom in and outs, a film becomes manipulative in that it forces a responder to take note of certain events, places or objects that may have an impact on the meaning taken from the composition...

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It is important to note that in order for leases to run with the land on assignment before the 1995 Act two conditions were required; privity of estate and the concept of 'touch and concern'. ... After all, the rules before were governed by statue and common law; they were extremely complicated which lead to injustice and clearly, reform was essential. ... Despite a lot of discussion on the position of the original tenant, 'it is important to note that the same principles apply to the landlord, who will be presumed to have covenanted for himself and his successors in title&#...

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His beliefs were that human beings possessed a type of sixth sense and that ordinary people could conduct their own research with a do-it yourself type guide to assist them. ... Rupert Sheldrake believed that scientific exploration of these common experiences could lead to a new understanding of human and animal minds therefore he is arguing for a new concept of the mind - one not bounded by the brain, but operating through fields of influence. ... The experimenter effect is most common in psychology studies and is described as an influence on the experiment that is exerted by the experimenter...

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This is supported by revealing evidence of the common man in picture scrolls and literature of the Kamakura period. During the Fujiwara period the common man had been non-existent in documentation. ... It is also important to note Professor Reischauer comparison of these three sects. ... It was here that he set up shop and began to preach from the street corners to the common people about his beliefs. ... It is important to note here that "Nichiren was not advocating the persecution of other schools of Buddhism or the establishment of a state religion. ...

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It is important to note that in addition to assisting the classification of film, genre also expresses the industrialized mode of production of film. ... 'Genre films offend our most common definition of artistic excellence: the uniqueness of the art object whose value can be defined by its desire to be uncaused and unfamiliar, as much as possible unindebted to any tradition, popular or otherwise. ... Walter Benjamin (Nerrida Moore MAS 205 Lecture Notes - Genre 03.05.2000), in his hypothesis, the Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction, duly noted that 'the aura of art ...

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However, it is important to note that both authors do not bash authorities; rather, they only criticize the blind acceptance of such authorities. ... Pantagruel's patience with Panurge all throughout Book 3 is most exemplary of the importance of understanding that learning who you are and gaining the sense of what is right and wrong through truth and reason is very gradual. ... Also, another point is the idea of doing what makes sense and what is reasonable for each individual. ... Montaigne quite clearly asserts that "truth and reason are common to all: they no more belong to the m...

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Politics in a sense symbolizes rationality and written rules, whereas violence seems so analogical and meaningless, harmful to human life and rights. ... He notes that the compromise between the states finally found itself in the heart of a bloody civil war. ... One of them is the ideology of self belonging to a specific nation, in which sense a fellow-feeling to other nation people and in which you get an awareness of sharing a common culture and identity. ... So, as Weaver also notes, the master race(!) ... As Apter notes, "Martyrs of the Hamas of the party of God regard the Israelis the...

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On a personal artists' level, there's a strong sense of self-gratification and celebration, attaching themselves to their work. ... Another sculpture of note is that of the diety Ganesh (protector, lord of intellect and wisdom) and his consorts. ... Note that the purpose is not to overlap, but appear either one above the other or directly beside one another. ... Its astonishing that this well integrated harmony between art and being, connected by religion through the use of common symbols and aesthetics is lived out through time at such a high level of importance and relevance....

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Though she did not take notes in the exam room, she would be able to remember the interview well enough to take down notes outside before heading off to another patient. ... They were both extremely dismissive of patient concerns and gave off a sense of superiority. ... Nestor) and take detailed file notes once back at their desk. ... It is a common misconception of doctors that as long as they get the job done everything is okay. ...

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Within his culture Jay Gatsby's identity clearly relied on his money this relates back to my thesis in the sense that this way cultural identity of an individual is extremely easy to define (as the culture is presented in the book), effectively just by a number. ... In this sense it can be said that the cultural identity is once again easily defined, there is a clear black and white distinction between the old rich and the nouveau rich. ... The use of colour here relates to wealth and its impact on identity in the sense that colour be it yellow cocktail music or a glowing green light at ...

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In fact, when evaluating history, vision may be the best sense which we possess in gaining a better understanding of our past; because most historical items, until the past century, were only able to be preserved through methods, such as written and photographed documents, where vision was the only sense which was applicable in analyzing and interpreting the historical background. ... Based on the common values and practices of a society, these vantage points, define a person's identity within a society. ... In fact, many historians note this time period as the major catalyst for tr...

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The poem begins on a depressing note, "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, this lime-tree bower my prison!... "So my Friend struck with weep joy may stand, as I have stood silent with swimming sense; yeah, gazing round on the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem less gross than bodily; and of such hues as veil the Almighty Spirit" (p. 808, line 37-39). ... Whitman blends reminiscence with a sense of purpose in the poem as well, basically ennobling it, again reflecting Romantic influence. ... Hence, the Romantic aspects in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry include an idealizat...

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Health People 2010 notes that, "binge drinking is a national problem, especially among males and young adults." ... Additionally, the common marketing strategy used by bars, such as the "Two-for Tuesdays" where customers can receive two beers for the price of one on Tuesdays, reinforce excessive drinking as a socially acceptable practice. ... Vomiting and littering in public places is a common aftereffect of alcohol abuse. ... Students and other young people have a sense of invulnerability, a belief that they will not be seriously affected by the alcohol they drink. ...

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While already a patriot, a legend and declared as Scotland's greatest hero within Scottish history, it is appalling to note that prior to Braveheart, William Wallace was a name unmentioned and unheard of in historical books. ... They note, too, that some degree of invention is inherent in all docudrama and that the genre, despite its shortcomings, can provide a valuable stimulus to thought when it is done well. ... He notes that they can "study film as a representation of history, use it for insights into the social and cultural values of the past, examine it as a form of historical evide...

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Generally, imagery includes all kinds of sense perception (not just visual pictures). ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ... The most common metric unit is the iambic foot, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one. ... A line with five feet is called pentameter; thus, a line of five iambs is known as "iambic pentameter" (the most common metrical form in English poetry). ... A drama may co...

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Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered"(Jacobs XIV). ... Thus she understands that some common ideals of womanhood cannot be applied to black enslaved women, and the latter should establish concepts of integrity and selfhood for themselves. ... It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. ... Hence, by "revived sense of manhood," that I have mentioned previously, Dou...

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