As Denscombe, (1998, p68) explains: "The image of the pitch-helmeted outsider dressed in khaki shorts arriving on the shores of some remote and exotic palm tree island to set up camp and study the lives of the "native" has become legendary." ... This method would also avoid the use of secondary data, like students" statements, that would not give the same quality or reliability of data. ... It would be important to provide a "public account of the role of self" to give readers an insight into the possible influence of the researcher on the description. ... As Denscombe, (1998, p68) explai...

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The shamans give offerings and praise to "the spirits", and in turn the earth takes care of them. ... Subsequently this relationship causes the members of a tribal culture to pay close attention to how much they take from nature, and how much they give back to it. ... While it is likely that a fly or a mosquito or a tree or any other animal on the earth does not have the same perceptual threshold as us, we have no way of definitively knowing that. ...

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What Is Development? 'Development is the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.' In the case of a country, it means to have a highly developed economy and be technologically advanced. The criteria to assess a country's development is by looking at it...

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Eagleton's definition connects literature and society by giving the reader the responsibility of creating their own definition, "the definition of literature [is] up to somebody [who] decides to read, not to the nature of what is written" (5). ...

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A summary of them may be made as follows: The growth of the primate brain was stimulated by life in the trees, specifically, by eye-hand co-ordinations involved in swinging from limb to limb and by manipulating food with the hands. ...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke have provided a pivotal influence on societal values. This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. The reality of contemporary liberalism, as it is inspir...

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