Hence, the imagination serves as a miraculous resource to set in motion individuals' dreams. ... He conveys that if an individual sets the imagination in motion before entering the work force, when individuals "pass into their period of technical apprenticeship their imaginations [will have already] practiced connecting details with general principles- (86). ... Freud also affirms that the imagination, employed properly, serves a noteworthy principle in the triumph of an individual. ...

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Critical thinking has also been defined as a process that "consists of an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the ability and willingness to ask and answer them at appropriate times," (Browne 1998, p. 2). ... We when to a very fancy Seafood restaurant, so fancy it only served seafood, no beef or chicken. ... All because I made an assumption and was unwilling to change my perception about what fancy seafood restaurant serve. ...

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Within the contents of this tale, a young lad named Robin sets off from his home in the country, on a journey to the little metropolis of a New England colony in search of his uncle Major Molineux. ... The narrator figure serves as the inner consciousness, confronting the ever-present ego, or the character of Robin. The narrator already knows that Robin has the potential to bring down his ego, and serves as a guide to help him along in his journey of self-discovery. ... Major Molineux was an emblematic reminder of these standards they despised so, and like the king himself, served as a roadb...

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Jeremiads were a common tactic used preachers at the time so Edwards was not alone, however his deeply intellectual thinking and versatile imagery, served to separate his works from the rest (258-259). ... The sentences are, "generally languid and complex" (Person Jr. 92) with, "rich and versatile imagery" that serves to "stir the heart, to stimulate the soul" (Cady 258). ... "It provides a pleasing symmetry to the shape of Edwards" thought, it propound a hard teaching", serves as a good summarization of the feelings of his peers and critics (Griffin). ... Stout put it perfectly when he sa...

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In the context of "Allegory of the Cave," Oedipus can be compared to the prisoner who is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave just as Oedipus had realized his fate. ... Both the prisoners and Oedipus at that point came to see a deeper, more genuine, and authentic reality: a reality that had been marked by reason and had served to be painful to recognize. ...

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Notably, an argument refers to a set of statements or propositions that are designed to convey some convincing to listeners or readers of a given claim or any conclusion and which has in it, some reason or premise supporting the acceptance of the said claim. ... Notably, every thoroughly composed argument serves a purpose for which it is composed. ...

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As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. ... The problem faced by Kubrik, and indeed the set designer was how to portray a near incomprehensible, purely conceptual journey on film. ... In this way, the set design encourages the viewer to open their minds, to consider abstract concepts and relative impossibilities. ... The glowing tiles also serve as a source of high contrast to the artworks and old furniture situated throughout the room. ... This can be attributed largely to the set design and its role in channeling our thoughts and emotions during these bizarr...

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This is demonstrated in the novel when Christopher set's out on what is for him an epic adventure, to find his mother in London. His journey and the challenges he meets along the way serve well to show us great insight into how he handles his handicap while still managing to achieve his aspirations. ... Exceptionally exclusive facets of structure such as these certainly set the standard for an appealing and pleasing novel. ... Untypical facets such as an unconventional numbering system and use of illustrations in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime completely set i...

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Hawthorne goes on to list several artistic masterpieces and inventions to serve as examples of the magnificence of things that can occur when we play in the imaginative world but live within the actualities of each day. ... In Robert Frost's "Birches," the reader once again is exposed to this idea as Frost daydreams about climbing the branches of a tree "toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again. ...

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Lady Macbeth calls upon evil to serve her with murderous thoughts and thus take away her femininity and all weakness. ... She is ruthlessly ambitious, and is even prepared to sacrifice her fertility and femininity to the powers of evil showing that she will stop at nothing to achieve what she set out to attain. ...

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After reading the riddle that was found on the foundations of the Abbey of Theleme, the monk interpreted it to be like a tennis game, noting that the "provoking people- get to serve twice, and "the cord hangs right across the court, and whoever speaks up and says it went under or over, everybody takes his word for it- (128). ...

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A number of theories have been proposed in order to explain this, there are three main theories; psycho neuromuscular theory, symbolic learning theory and attention and arousal set arousal theory. ... Motor actions and sequences are considered cognitively before a physical response is required. a set-play in football is a good example of this. ... Imagery when used serves to improve performance in two manners; in a physiological view, imagery may help the athlete to adjust their arousal level for optimal performance. ...

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A still unresolved question and debate arising from this state of affairs is: should we continue in our knowledge endeavors to follow the old, analytic tradition of Western science, or does it serve mankind (and especially intellectuals as creators of new ideas and understandings) better to become "contextualizers", "story-tellers", "faith healers" or "conversationists"? ...

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The fact that there is so much freedom in this world acts as an instigator to the act of binary thinking which serves as a process to construct an identity. Bell's examples of Jayanthi and Alicia reflects on their control over constructing their identity over time which is something the cadets at the Citadel failed to do as they were restricted by the boundaries set from the image of the school and were scared to be rebellious against the meaning of such image flow. ... Jayanthi and Alicia faced a completely different situation where they were not forced by their parents or community to...

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David Robinson, for one, exploring Thoreau's "worldly transcendentalism," pursues a similar interest in the emergence of Thoreau's empiricism in the 1850s, but cautions against reading his ecological immersion in natural history after Walden as necessarily divorced from the poetics of "Emersonian idealism" evident in Thoreau's own earlier work: "Over the last decade of his life, Thoreau devised a set of interlinking projects in which empirical observation and metaphysical conceptualization played vital and complementary roles." (7) In this essay, I heed Robinson's caution, ...

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