The ability to recognize these figures is dependent on specialized temporal lobe and amygdala neurons, which fire selectively in response to these images from dense neuronal fields along the neocortical surface of the inferior temporal lobe and within the amygdala. ... Dreams have also held considerable spiritual significance since early humans developed a limbic system. ... Moreover, dreams have consistently been the primary medium for communication with gods and ghosts. ... The connection between dreams and spirituality is again found in the limbic system, which is actually responsible for t...

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Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 that "a fine painting should be produced like a world . . . each layer heightening the reality of the dream bringing it nearer to perfection." Each artist creates his work as both a dream and a reality by a layering of contrasts, most generally that of reality and dreamscape, but also interior and exterior, viewer and viewed, individual and environment, light and dark, con...

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Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. ... Interestingly though, she is using the delicate but weighty issue of power within her own defense, thus is offering a nod to the fact that there are such power differences between genders but not allowing this to completely dominate her and not allow her to m...

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Followed by the traditional idea of the 'American Dream', the 'ideal' way to live became to be the nuclear family. Functionalism directly supports this traditionalist approach, including heterosexual marriage and specific gender roles within the household, including instrumental roles for men and expressive roles for women. ... However, this view can be criticised due to a growing age of family diversity, and abuse within relationships. ... This links with Marx's theory of the 'chain of inheritance' within families, as kin passes down items such as proper...

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The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. ... He idealized the crude and gross plutocracy of Rome into a world of fine gentlemen upon the eighteenth-century model, and told how it fell before the Barbarian from without because of the decay through Christianity within. ...

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Inclusion in communities within the realms of cyberspace, however, can be as easy as few mouse clicks. ... Inclusion in technological advances associated with cyberspace, continue to be but a dream for the poor and least educated for whom computer and internet accessibility remains unattainable (Loader 1998, p. 65). ... Identities and Loss of Reality Real communities develop through physical interaction and face-to-face relationships requiring members to put up with each other's shortcomings and burdens and accept that within their community, opposing ideals, views, and personalities abo...

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Employing the main protagonist, Edna Pontellier, as a medium of venting her own disdain and frustration of the Victorian notion of the ideal woman and expressing her own clandestine wish to rebel against it, Kate Chopin's The Awakening not just the antithetical repudiation of Victorian living but a written hope of social independence of women "a dream that will not be fully realized for another seventy years. ... The relationship is regarded as within the Creole social convention of an adoring young man expressing his love for a married woman, who remains faithful and chaste. .....

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Managers within the Starbucks Corporation are will aware of the reality of rapid change, for they have reacted to, as well as initiated many changes that have redefined and raised the standards in the coffee industry. ... No more waiting in long lines for venti latte, or a tall frappucino, Schultz simply added more comfort and convenience within the highly targeted market, using high-speed accessibility; this will assess both present and future technological needs to support Starbucks global growth (Compaq Media Press). ... Innovative companies detect customers" unspoken dreams, imp...

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Within the past decade, a considerable amount of research has been conducted on what has been referred to as practical intelligence. ... Yet, there was no evidence within any domain that intellectual ability was a significant predictor of success. ... What can be said is that the influence of IQ on job performance within the normal range as influenced by self-selection is often overshadowed by other factors. ... The associationistic system, which can be observed in altered states of consciousness such as dreams, functions at an unconscious level of awareness and corresponds, to a large exte...

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McDonalds has obtained sheer dominance within the fast-food industry and thus is a company which is particularly relevant when exploring and discussing the topic of globalization. ... Furthermore, Mott, Shapiro and Steindl also show a clear rejection to the more classical/neo-classical opinion in their book "Rethinking capitalist development" as they explain that the monopolisation of big businesses like McDonalds is "endemic" to monopoly capitalism, which in turn causes stagnation within an economy: "The growth of international firms means that stagnation tendencies generated in any one count...

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