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. More specifically, his father made sure that he did not see old, sick and dead people, as well as those who are dedicated to spiritual practices [ CITATION Boe99 l 1036 ]. ... He then went on a journey to figure out, first, the elements that cause suffering in people's life and then the solutions that would help a person overcome this suffering in one's life [ CITATION Boe99 l 1036 ]. ... Fin...

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These representatives made decisions based on their own ideals without the consideration of the people. ... This discontent of the majority of the people made way for the form of government called a tyranny. ... This included all people of the state regardless of class, rank, standing or wealth. The control of the state was in the hands of the people and decisions of the state were reached by the mass of people. ... Attendance in the Assembly was open to every citizen that represented a government literally "by the people." ...

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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 hero leaves the ordinary world, engaging in life threatening activities to attain the desired end and returns, or is brought back, enriched to the ordinary reality. ... The hero is the creature endowed with courage, dignity, who becomes the savior of humanity in the face of adversity, he is a "superhuman", "semi-divine" figure placed above the ordinary human kind. ... This heroic epic is kept in the tradition of Classical Greek mythology, where the "idea of the hero as the savior of his people dominates" (Jokinen 1996). ... Beowulf fought for his King and his people, however, that chang...

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British soaps were real' and gritty, about normal' everyday issues and characters, whereas American soaps took place in glamorous locations and dealt with out of the ordinary events and tended to deal with wealthy families. ... It tends to feature primarily physically attractive people and there is also a notable absence of people of colour. ... It is watched by about one-third of the British population, by more women than men, by older people, and also by people from lower socio- economic groups. ... In soaps female characters are portrayed as more central than in action drama, as...

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She was saying that human beings are, as real people, "unfinished", or like an unfinished stone, imperfect. ... 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". ... This obsession with identity is quite peculiar c...

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"Any form of government, including republican or popular government, which does not fulfill the requirements of civil and political life is either a tyranny or a corrupt republic- that is, the two worst calamities that can befall a people" Essentially, tyranny under this theory involves the absence of the rule of law. ...

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Research in Business Education A significant development during the past fifteen years is the attention accorded research by professional organizations in business education. The coordination of effort and encouragement provided by these groups of research-minded people appear most valuable. I...

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A democratic system would allow citizens to choose representatives that would voice the thoughts of people, and with the economic reforms. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. The majority may not please the losing faction of a certain issue, however the attention would be diverted onto the people who elected the official(s). ... The people of China may want democratic reform, however the CCP is able to appease to the people in a way that gi...

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To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, we never feel out of place" (Dizon). Moreover, the presence of Vietnamese people is what makes Little Saigon more noticeable and exclusive. ... With no doubt, Little Saigon offers Vietnamese people a certain comfort of being with people who share the sa...

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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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-The Perfumed Garden- One wonders what images appear in people's mind when they hear the word "prostitute-. ... To introduce different ways of seeing and helping people understand better about the complex mystery that surrounds them "prostitutes. ... And how much society has contributed to creating wrong or false image of prostitutes, which lingers in the minds of people till now. ... Control over female labour and female sexuality was a norm, an ordinary practice during the historical era. ... Believing that sex-workers are social and psychological deviants, people are justifi...

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Alexie uses the powers of dreams in Reservation Blues to portray the oppressive relationship between white people and Native Americans and the continued destruction of Native Americans and their culture. Throughout these dreams Alexie portrays the underhand tactics employed by white people in order to slaughter and oppress the Native Americans. ... Alexie retells this in another of Thomas' dreams where the television is on and showing that white people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children (Thomas' desire for what he sees as a white man's privilege only serves to sho...

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A lot of people little firms work under states of monopolistic competition, including freely possessed and worked high-road stores and restaurants. ... Monopolistically focused firms are thought to be benefit maximisers on the grounds that firms have a tendency to be little with business people effectively included in dealing with the business. 9. ...

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Glanville Williams, for instance, has voiced the concern of many by focusing on the very foundations of the system: the calibre of individual jurors: "persons whose ordinary occupations are of a humble character rarely qualify to be regarded as first rate intellectual machines. ...

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Taking this into account, people may speculate on how it is that Castro came to power with popular support in 1959. ... The Cuban people were in a position where they desired a "strong" government to restore the law and order that had been lacking during the previous government administration. ... While this investment policy was apparently supposed to increase the tourism industry, and create new jobs it also generated resentment among the Cuban people. ... His policies were rash, inconsistent, and unfair to the people. ... He ruled not with the support of the majority of the people, but with...

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People felt they could not relate to the material, since it "[did not] translate to the period.  ... Firstly, there will be a closer look on the de-factor-segregation between black and white people, then on the racial discrimination going on during the crucial phase of jury selection, and eventually the inequality of the verdicts people of different races receive. 4.1. ... " (Logan: 1-2) In the same paper, the problem is described as being multigenerational, since children of black and white people are likely to attend separate schools. ... While Grisham romanticises Jake's s...

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It was hoped that the working classes would be the people to benefit most at the hands of Prohibition, alcohol consumption was thought to hinder the efficiency of the worker. ... Many were first or second generation immigrants from working class backgrounds who were seen by the public to be fighting against the unfair restraints placed upon the people by the establishment. ... The stock market crash led to mass-disillusionment, millions of people lost all their savings, businesses and even homes. ... Films were being produced depicting stories of ordinary people, immigrants or descendants from...

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Judges has to be really carefully of misusing or abuse of the power they have on some people's lives. ... Judges sometimes impose sentences that are more severe than his crime appears to call for, but judges will justify this action by saying that the defendant is an example for other people who decide to engage in the same type of actions. ...

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The people of ancient Pompeii therefore carried on with their everyday life and it is in this precious moment, on the 24 of August, that Mount Vesuvius claimed the lives of not only thousands of people, but the life of an entire ancient civilization (Cooley 2003:37). ... Private buildings refer to the homes of the people, which were found differing in size and design. ... Furthermore, some buildings, both private and public were made with more precious materials, perhaps signalling a difference in impotence, class or wealth was present amongst the People of Pompeii. ... Buildings thus allow u...

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This was a highly mechanized, industrial age in which people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. ... Criticisms of this theory suggest that people at the top mislead the American public, which means that people with greater information have more power. ... Corporate Ruling Class Theory If a ruling class hypothesis says anything, surely it asserts that within some specific political system there exist a group of people who to some degree exercise power or influence over other actors in the system '. ... (Business Week 1989 ) In 1992 TNCs...

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It is simple enough to watch a feature-length film as an ordinary audience member, but just as necessary is the point of view of the director. ... The difference between these two groups of people, as discussed above, is their perspective. ... Background The history of the horror genre features rather distinct trends that mirror public concerns over time: What do people think is horrible? ... After several more years of monster movies, directors began to realize that people tend to fear change in the things they know the best. ... Alien (1979) provides an example of this spectacle in action,...

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In the midst of the universal health care trend, gym gurus alongside ordinary people around the world are making massage therapy a part of their regular health care regimens. ... The ancient peoples of China, Greece, Egypt, and India relied on basic massage to relieve almost any medical condition from which they were suffering. ...

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Comprehending The French Lieutenant's Woman "I know three kinds of dialogue, - writes M.Buber, - original which can be expressed both in words, and in silence, - in this dialogue each of its participants really means another or others in their original life and addresses to them, aspiring that between him and them the alive mutual relation was established; technical, aroused only by necessity of objective mutual understanding, and, at last, the monologue disguised under dialogue in which two persons or more people in the strange twisting ways speak with themselves, believing thus,...

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Value is a central social reality for people; they constantly think and talk about it directly or indirectly; they want some way to transfer it directly among themselves, separate from particular commodities. ... Insofar as commodity relations are well developed, so that exchange of products is common and people are forced willy nilly to consider the value of products separately from their use values, the money form of value will also be present. ... They imply that the value referred to by the labor theory of value is ordinary money value which we use to buy and sell commodities, and which is...

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