However, according to Byrnes (Sommers 2004), this is the example of everything is wrong with Hollywood CGI movies: technology overtakes storytelling, action is exaggerated to the meaningless and drama is put down the ordinary monotonous concept of good and evil. ... According to Vogler (2007), Act One start with the Ordinary World, which establishes the Hero normal home and safe life. ... The Ordinary World provides the audience the opportunity to understand the Hero's drive, desires, and problems. Most stories will involve a problem that disrupt the Ordinary World and call the Hero to ...

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The most important characteristic of it is that it focuses on the context in order to determine the mobility of state's population to commit genocide. ... Situational context offers an alternative explanation for which people engage in mass state violent crime. ... From a psychological context, only deviant people engage in mass state-prescribed violence, as their individuality expresses violence and the predisposed category of people towards this is represented by the young people (Loyle, 2009). ... Browning (1993) argues that it is ordinary men and not psychological cases that sum up th...

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This essay will first emphasize on this historical context, before exploring the different forms to which Buddhism has evolved, the major ones being the Theravada, the Mahayana and the Vajrayana. ... In the intention to protect his son, Siddhartha's father made sure that he was kept inside the walls one of his palaces, and prevented him from experiencing things that ordinary people do. ...

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Short Background Before I am able to continue with this essay, I find it necessary to provide a short background on the the reason for the uniqueness and thus, importance of ancient Pompeii, so that some understanding and context can be created. ...

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It examines how regular/ ordinary people can lead more fulfilled lives. ... Within this context, success varies from one individual to another. ... Within this context, strength is described as an individual's capacity to act on their desires to achieve their desired results. ...

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Understanding the complexity of society in terms of all the institutions, contexts, and interpretations and how all these are related is an important milestone in the study of criminology; to further study in criminology one needs to accept the fact that everything in society is related to the criminological field. ...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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We saw that even when R and W met words in the same contexts, their knowledge of the items grew substantially over the course of repeated encounters. We have also shown that R and W profited from meeting the words often, regardless of whether they were important to the story or occurred in information-rich contexts. ... In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in surrounding contexts to work out the meanings of problem items. ...

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There's nothing behind ordinary life. ... She portrays it as something almost satanic, which can only serve to disconnect people with reality and lead them to misery: "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self". ...

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Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of...

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Abstract The object of this study is to explore specific identity-formations that have occurred under specific cultural and socio-political contexts that have enabled women politicians in India to acquire political power. ... Their marital status assumes significance in the context of construction of particular gender identities they acquired in popular discourse, which does not preclude allegations of affairs with men in their close circles (such as Dhirendra Brahmachari in the case of Indira Gandhi and MGR in the case of Jayalalithaa). ... We will be investigating the specific contexts in th...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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Gender has become an ordinary concept of daily activities and for some people, questioning the notion of this term may seem pointless. ... Butler (1990), in her book "Gender Trouble", coins the term "performativity" and argues that the act that an individual does and performs is one that has been there before the individual came to the context. ...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Path of Law said "a thing which you have enjoyed and used as your own for a long time, whether property or an opinion, takes root in your being and cannot be torn away without your resenting the act and trying to defend yourself, however you came by it." That seems to be the case regarding the law of adverse possession. Adverse possession is, in fact, the process of dispossessing the previous holder and occupying the land until the owner's rights to recover it is time-barred under the Limitation Act 1980 in relation to unregistered land, or the adver...

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While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ...

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He even gives them back their guns once they have left the village, under the impression that they will not return. " .Calvera is no ordinary bad Bandido he has his own code of professional ethics, which includes caring for his men and protecting the villagers from other marauders- . ...

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Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). ...

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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, spe...

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The Society of Forensic Toxicology describes forensic toxicologists as scientist involving the analysis of tissue and body fluids for drugs and poisons, and who interpret the resulting information in the judiciary context. ...

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Hence I want to investigate to what extent the lessons learnt in less developed countries (hereafter referred to as LDCs) are applicable in the context of socially and economically deprived urban areas of MDCs. ...

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He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech of one of the characters. ...

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With an object as ordinary as a swinging pocket watch, some individuals have the power to gain control of another person's mind by lulling them into a meditative state. ... Once again, in the Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle demonstrates the importance of truthful rhetoric but this time in judicial context. ...

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Abstract This paper describes key parts of the discussion that has been going on among researchers and others over the course of the last decade about what bullying is, its influence, what may be causing it, and what are its consequences among male, high school teenagers. Bullying encompasses many a...

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Afghanistan's long history of foreign powers occupying its territory is about to conclude another chapter with the impending withdrawal of NATO and U.S. troops. The future of Afghanistan after this milestone is anyone's guess, but history has shown that given many of the current indicators, the potential for civil war is high. The foremost catalyst for civil war are the Taliban, who were ousted by the allied forces in 2001. The efforts to provide the country with adequate security have been hampered by challenges including inadequate or incomplete training, corruption, economic dispa...

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