Every species desires that their genes be transferred to the next generation. ... An individual's desire to date the opposite sex is compelled by their ultimate desire to meet a compatible partner and to procreate with them to produce viable offspring. An individual's desire to eat is compelled by their desire to stay alive so that they may transfer their genes onto the next generation. ... The desired outcome of fitness maximization is essentially the same between the two. ... The underlying motivation behind not killing a person and dying for the sake of loved ones is in fact fitne...

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Director of ""Romeo Must Die"" Andrzej Bartkowiak reveals his thoughts behind the transformation of the Shakespearian classic, """Romeo and Juliet""". ... The ancient grudge that is presented in ""Romeo and Juliet"" is never openly identified, however in ""Romeo Must Die"" it is obvious from the opening scene that the hatred between the two family groups is fuelled almost entirely by the desire from wealth, power and ultimately, the land on the waterfront. ... In ""Romeo Must Die"" there is no overruling power figure to inflict lawful order in the society, as the Price do...

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For example, letting a patient die because he/she is an organ donor and an organ is needed would be ok as compared to one person killing another for personal reasons between the victim and the killer. ... This is because, contrary to John Mill, Kant believes in why the person must die, be it to make one person happy or ten. ... He claims, "The sole evidence that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it". ... He then tries to apply the argument to society as a whole, saying that if an individual desires what would cause him the most individua...

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The idea of getting killed over night from an animal or dying from starvation was not a tentative option, so people decided to stay together and work with each other so that they would be able to survive. ... Questions, fears and desires represent some of the reasons why people have been looking for answers ever since the beginning of time. Answers about why does it rain or where do we go after we die, represent some of the hundreds of reasons people started to believe that they were not alone and there was someone else that was not only watching over them. ... For instance, we know that we ag...

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The Luna family lifestyle (expressed by Antonio's mother) shows stability, productivity, and family, which are apparent in the Luna's' desire to build and live in towns. ... It could also mean that they are dying because they have changed too much to settle seamlessly into their old lives. ...

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It is written right before the death of his wife Virginia with whom Poe was deeply in love and she was dying month after their marriage because of consumption. ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ...

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This aspect exemplifies her desire to be involved in the social activities of the outside world as well as her dependency on the outside environment. ... It is apparent that it is the social institution of marriage that incites in the lady a desire to attain love and move away from the life of shadows. ... The lady actions appear to be progressive but have a greater motive of desire to find marriage. ... Consequently, her journey to the social life of public life remains incomplete due to her premature death: "For ere, she reached upon the tide/The first house by the water-side/Singing ...

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He realises the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." ... In Ode to a Nightingale the illusive object which is inherently desired, is at last attained. The poem allows Keats to "transcend his imprisoning self hood to sympathetic contemplation of other lives" hence, it can be revealed that in presenting the reader with vivid sensuous delights and concurrently presenting a harrowing image of the transience of human ...

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Alongside the image of a strong, communist worker is that of a typical husband desiring the comforting love of his wife. ... Motya, Gleb's neighbor, is left devastated after her children all die from starvation; nearly all the factory workers have abandoned their posts, and the factory-the heart and pride of the proletariat-is nearly abandoned. ... Likewise, she loses her nurturing qualities: she no longer takes care of the house, which is described as, " where the mice have fouled where the cozy fire has died now swarm with the stinking vermin" (Gladkov 27). ... As a result of ...

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However, following his destruction of the Persian Empire, Alexander controversially desired more than Refusing to be bound by Greek xenophobic tradition, Alexander integrated Persian customs into Greek culture and inevitably caused a flow on effect of conflict and loss of Macedonian support. ...

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Frankenstein is the powerful story of one scientist's desire to play god and reduce the miracles of the human body into its mechanical foundations, in the process learning what it means to be human and where the natural boundaries of man ends and the realm of god begins. ... In Anne Mellor's work, "Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein," published in 1990, Mellor states: Above all, Mary Shelley associated her modern Prometheus with Percy Shelley, who had already announced his desire to compose an epic rebuttal to Aeschylus" Prometheus Bound when he reread the play ...

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"By 1977, eight states - California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, North Carolina, and Texas - had signed right-to-die bills into law.... Perhaps more important, at that time he was a founder of the Hemlock Society, an organization that believes inane individual's choice and in the right to die, and strives to get laws passed to approve for physicians to assist in suicide for patients who seek to die in such a manner. ... The right to die is defined as the putative right for a person to decide not to be kept alive by heroic means and die with dignity [Def14]. ... The r...

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"We feel a need to belong, to have a social "place"" To try and achieve this we consume product after product seeking the ideological status we desire. ... The Calvin Klein adverts glorify being un-naturally thin as fashionable and as a popular brand which consumers trust, they believe what they are being shown and unfortunately thousands of women die each year from eating disorders, I am not saying Calvin Klein is solely responsible for the issue but as a brand concerned with fashion and self image they should...

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This is proven early on in the story when Walter desires to marry Griselda; "Walter asks Janicula for Griselda's hand in marriagehe assumes Griselda's answer, for he assumes that she will agree to the will of both her father and her master" (McCarthy 505). ... Ultimately, this leads to Walter's downfall as he ends up dying after putting his wife through emotional trauma. ...

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My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet died of an incurable genetic curse. ... What are these stem cells, and how could they be used to regenerate the scrambled brain of a dying man? ... Hypothetically, stem cells could one day be used to regenerate entire organs, ameliorating the dire transplant system that currently forces pe...

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Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. ... The major theme of the Harlem Renaissance was the roots of the African American experience in Africa and the American South mixed with a strong sense of racial pride and desire for social and political equality (Collier, 1985). ...

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The Emperor appointed the Pope and did whatever he desired. ... Henry I continued this sequence of church repression Even though Henry II also wished to retain this system of repression and further it, "he recognized the law of God and of the Church as existing independently of what he himself might desire, and as having authority."" ... When his ally, Pope Adrian IV died in 1159 and was replaced by Alexander III, Barbarossa was intent on invading Milan and did so successfully. ... The Troublesome Archbishop It was out of this desire to maintain personal control over the Church and have...

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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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This fact is accentuated by the fact that the presence of the hawk leads them simply to "yield"- the threat of danger and dying merely serves to bring them closer together. ... She uses images full of vitality which appeal to the senses to imply her lack of any fear of dying: the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet". ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

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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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Similarly, Satan the Devil attempts to lure Adam's companion into disobedience by stating, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ... This disobedience was the result of their pride and the desire to become like gods. ...

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In order to completely understand Stalins seemingly fanatic desire for increased security, one must understand the degree of destruction the Soviet Union endured at the hands of the German forces and their allies during the Second World War. ... They looted and destroyed 40,000 hospitals and medical centers, 84,000 schools and colleges, 43,000 public libraries (which contained approximately 110,000,000 volumes), 44,000 theaters, 2,800 churches and 427 museums.8 Additionally, the Soviet Union desired to maintain its Eastern and South-Eastern European territory in order to create a united Slavi...

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A common argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires. ... The answer to this question may be more complicated, however, what remains obvious is that the media does not portray women as only being able to fill male sexual desires. ... To address the argument that males are pushed over the "brink" into committing rape because of pornography, one may point to the evidence above; to cover the female body would theoretically only increase male sexual desires. ...

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Central to the Palestinian movement is the desire to regain Palestinian territories deemed unlawfully occupied by the Zionist Movement of Israel, completed under the auspices of the United Kingdom and other Western nations. ... The PLO could no longer contain the anger seething from the Palestinian people, and it soon became clear that Hamas was more in touch with the true feelings and desires of the Palestinian nation. ...

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Supporters of marijuana legalization answer that for many patients, traditional medications do work and they do not require or desire medical marijuana. ... A 1999 report by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded: "It is well recognized that Marinol's oral route of administration hampers its effectiveness because of slow absorption and patients' desire for more control over dosing. ... ... Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. ...

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