What makes people willing to die for their countries? ... The events on and after September 11, 2001 provide a good example of why people are willing to die for the nation. ... It is also interesting to note the actual terrorists" willingness to die for their countries. ... Capitalism has to do with the desires of the publishers to make profits. ... If the nation ceases to exist, then their identities die with it. ...

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The core of most of the works of the women of these times, lies the desire to unite with the Deity and the expression of this union, more often than not, is perceived to be an erotic one. In the Virasaivite tradition of the Kannada region, the Lingayat women, speak fearlessly of this union, of their physical desire, and the underpinning separation from the God- Shiva in this case. ... "I pine and languish but he cares not whether I live or die--- If I see that thief of Govardhana that looting robber, that plunderer I shall pluck out by their roots these breasts that have known no gain I ...

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Kittle describes the kind of situation she has suffered by saying that "the outer competition I am participating in and witnessing is affecting me negatively, I simultaneously begin to feel little desire to continue modeling or acting and, overnight, I become ill." ... Each year more than one thousand women die from anorexia, while bulimia's victims go largely unreported." ... To summarize, "Beauty sickness" is a term for a modern disease that features those who are inevitably obsessed with the strong desire to beautify their bodies to extreme degree while being exposed to the si...

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According to Gellner, the transformation of the "closed, intimate community" in which most people once lived into open, large-scale market systems produce "the central problem facing contemporary societies," the seemingly irresolvable conflict between an individualistic mode of thought and a desire for the spiritual comfort of community."... On November 5th, 1995, Ernest Gellner died at Prague airport, as he returned from chairing a conference. ...

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This poem centers around the struggle of one African American man to overcome racial diversity and hatred in a home he works in, and it details his inner thoughts and desires to be accepted for who he is. ... Further into the poem, the narrator expresses his desire to sit at the table and be treated as equal, and the reader knows that this will happen for him one day, as his spirit and identity is strong amidst a world of hatred. ...

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If a member who has just recently been diagnosed with cancer can only relate cancer to death because most everyone he knew that had cancer has died, then being in this group situation and hearing of the survivors experiences may change his attitude about the disease, different treatment options, cures, etc. ... They can sometimes attempt to persuade an individual toward a desired outcome, or they can broaden our perception of a situation to increase our perceived options. ... When we allow these social influences and social norms to guide our behavior in both individual and group settings, t...

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Under the conflict perspective, hackers and other computer criminals are seen as deviant because many hackers break into large companies for the "mindless desire for glory (Pitchford; pages 10-13). " However besides hackers lack of any real criminal desires they are still seen as deviant because they blatantly while doing their hacking. ... Passwords might be replaced for more secure forms of security, and hackers could be a dying breed. ...

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Durkheim investigated this theory and pointed out that if suicide was caused by a certain insanity then this would be termed as ˜monomania' " in Durkheim's words, "a delirium of localized nature " that is, a person is otherwise normal but has sudden desires to drink or use abusive language. ... He said that the society affected an individual in two ways; first by integration (over integration and under integration), also by creating purposes and ideals and secondly by regulation of the individual or by putting restrictions on his unlimited desires. ... Catholics accept ...

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After getting rejected he realizes, "He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.... The best example of this is when Alba is in the "doghouse" at the detention center and sees an apparition of Clara, who suggested, "that she write a testimony that might one day call attention to the terrible secret she was living through, so that the world would know about this horror that was taking place parallel to the peaceful existence of those who did not wan...

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From their point of view we were all created from the earth, we dwell on the earth, ad when we die we become part of the earth once again. ... We do not know, with full clarity, their desires or motivations; we cannot know, or never be sure that we know, what they know" (Abram 10). ... The earth is not acknowledged as having a direct significance on everyday life, therefore a majority of western cultures have lost the ability, or do not desire, to have a close relationship with earth. ...

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She would not accept the change that war brought about concerning France's views of Germans because it placed her desires outside of what society deemed normal for young French women, and caused society to look down on the fact that she was in love with a German. ... Germany, in Grass's eyes, was deteriorating with the rise of Hitler, and the failure for time to pass represented his desire for things to stay as they were before his emergence into power. ...

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Workers often died in such environments and the wages and hours could be miserable. ... Some of them would work as much as sixteen hours a day and lived in tenement houses, often becoming seriously ill or dying from disease. ...

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Kahn raises the idea of about Lear's "frustrated incestuous desire for [Cordelia]-, as Lear attempts to manipulate this ritual through disowning and disinheriting her - deeming her unfit to marry and thereby keeping his paternal protection in tact. ...

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This is a very accurate saying when it comes to psychology because it has been proven that a person will try to fulfill his or her same childhood desires in adulthood in a way that is acceptable by his or her society and culture. ... Because his town was small and had a strong relationship with his childhood, he was influenced to return back home, knowing it was the right thing to do when his best friend died. ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... This implicit cultural desire to obtain an entirely male constituted society was strongly opposed by Mary Shelley. ...

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Deviance And Social Contol The Theory of Differential Association and Gangs Theory is a systematic explanation of a phenomenon; it organizes known facts and allows us to predict new facts, and permits us to exercise a degree of control over the phenomenon. One important theory was first off...

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Therefore, this leads to the reasoning that countries develop out of selfishness - be it desire for money, power, freedom, or some other interest. ... According to Muslim doctrine, the quickest and most sure way of accomplishing this is through dying in the name of Islam. ...

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Sullivan also reported that about every one in every twenty seven black men, compared to one in every two hundred and five white men, died violently, also one in one hundred and seventeen black women met an untimely end as compared to white women which only one in four hundred and ninety six were killed due to violent crimes. ... He states that gang delinquency was a way of life for the young in certain inner city areas, it took various forms but was often characterised by not so much by a desire for money success but as one of immediate gratification, more hedonistic. ...

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The characters (aside from the liberators Meurteil and Valmont) prove to be caricatures of characters that would have made up Louisean courtly society during the Ancien Regime; aware of their social roles, compliant to their rules and ignoring their own desires. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages."1 Her comment demonstrates the rigid view that members of the upper class had regarding the requirements a woman needed to be called "accomplished" (38). As well as these skills, a woman must possess a natural grace and flawless manner "to deserve the word" (39). Elizabeth Bennet's reply of "I never saw such a woman" highlights Austen's concern with the notion of t...

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The functionalist approach would also find that a shared sense of identity comes from the fact that all of us know someone who has died from a terminal illness or knows of someone who has one right now. ...

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