The connections that one forms with both individuals and the surrounding world have the ability to provide the individual with a sense of inclusion, security and acceptance. ... Hence, both novels explore the benefits and detriments of relationships, and the way these bonds impact a sense of belonging. ... Despite difficulty fitting in with society, these connections provide the individual with a sense of inclusion and acceptance, and hence making them feel as though they belong. The formation of relationships gives an alienated or segregated individual the capacity to challenge the percep...

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Continual references throughout this article are made to "Media moguls" (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237) within the Australian media industry, an element that is restated to further emphasise their perception of a lack of free thought resulting from a highly privatised media sector and an officious government. ... According to Milner, Political economy can be defined as a "culturalist sense of the antithesis between culture and utilitarian capitalist civilisation [combined with] a utilitarian sense of the importance of material interest" (Milner, 1991: 40). Cunningham and Flew see the ABC as...

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This exploration of combining shots is called collision or intellectual montage and has its meaning in the sense that these series of colliding shots raised points of conflicts for the audience that needed to be resolved. ... This creation of rhythmic montage about movements of lives is then the analysis of social state as labor and proposal of new perception as ideology. Vertov said "My path leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world. ... In this sense, Vertov's documentary form structure maintained a rather simple additive structural format of montage while Eisenstein'...

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Together, the limbic system and inferior temporal lobe have been found to provide foundations for mystical, spiritual, and religious experiences -- the perception and hallucination of ghosts, demons, and spirits and the belief in demonic or angelic possession (Motluck 7). ... These nuclei are "primary in regard to memory, the production of visual imagery, and the expression and perception of most aspects of emotion (including religious ecstasy)." ... Consequently, the perception of certain objects often results in feelings of "fear, foreboding, or religious awe," since the limbic system is als...

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The base level activity that, perhaps best shows man to be a political animal is moral consideration; "humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust" . Being such a political animal, man succumbs to a natural urge and pairs off with a woman, similarly, a master pairs with a slave to better enable life and then, in succession, a household, a village and a state is formed; the end-product here is, supposedly a virtuous polis in a collective and individual sense. ... That man is by nature a political animal means in a minimum sense that relationships are necessary to human-kind ...

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Through religious ritual and practice, people "make sense of the world, reach decisions and organize their lives," which was evident during my visit to the Hindu Temple in Flushing, Queens. ... " These songs were key rituals to the Hindu goal of maintaining a low ego, through which they develop a sense of communitas, "a sense of camaraderie, a vision of what constitutes the good life, and perhaps most important, a commitment to take social action to move toward achieving this vision" (Guest 583). ... They take action through their rituals to achieve their vision of equ...

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From my overview of Cultural Relativism, it becomes clear that, to the cultural relativist, such an act may not be considered universally 'wrong' in the sense with which that term is usually used. ... Whilst not disputing the obvious diversity of cultural perceptions of morality, they argue that this does not necessarily imply morality is relative. ...

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Rejecting the time-honored perception of the women being the romantic fixation, Edna instead chooses to seek out romantic partners herself, contrary to the popular belief of men being the ones that court and pursue. ... In respect to attending her sister's wedding, Edna proclaims that "a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth-, declaring her disgust for the traditional Victorian sense of marriage, whereas the women will be the property of their husband. ... Her struggle to explore limitless worlds of independence and love resonates with defiance to relinquish her newly...

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Also the change in interrogation techniques on potential terrorists altered the domestic and international perception that America is a nation that respects the rule of law and human rights (Locopino). ... The CIA created the debility, dependency, dread (DDD) approach to interrogating detainees which has captors attack detainee's sense of self. Debility is created through sleep deprivation, chronic pain, and sensory overload/deprivation, which in turn creates a sense of hopelessness in the detainees and dependence upon the captors. ...

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Hawthorne's choice, then, chillingly reflects actual experience, which is also devoid of the luxury of explanation-instead, it is defined by a basic flurry of action that we, as we blunder onwards, must try to synthesize into sense. ... This manifests itself in Hawthorne's choice of a narrator-an ambiguous, undefined force of dubious capabilities who behaves like an omniscient narrator, yet limits our perception to that of a solitary character at the most crucial of moments. ... His description of the seated judge at once affirms our suspicions and supplants them-the narrator notes ...

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A person's work helps them to define a sense of themselves. ... In addition, an older worker's perception of their decision-making role in the workplace and having flexible work arrangements when needed has been considered to be a significant influence on their decision to retire. ... Factors such as the number of outside interests a person has, their perception of the management in their work environment, and their desire to remain in the current domicile or region, also influences the decision to retire (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006). ...

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Schizophrenia can be defined as "a disorder with a range of symptoms involving disturbances in content of thought, form of thought, perception, affect, sense of self, motivation, behavior, and interpersonal functioning" (Halgin 514). ...

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Since animals are now known to experience some of the same emotions and behaviors that humans show due to sentience, it only makes sense that such rights apply to them as well. ... The misrepresentation of animals undermines the cause of animal rights by attracting negative media attention and altering public perception of the urgency and necessity for the legalization of animal rights.   ...

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In this sense, he agreed with Freud that from the age of 5 children's personalities are fixed. ... In terms of the impact of disturbed relationships on personality, it is important to understand that Horney's view was that a child's perception of events, as opposed to the parent's intentions, is the key to understanding a person's personality. ...

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The irony of this is that social identity theory came about initially through Henri Tajfel's experimental laboratory based research on social perception which highlighted cognitive biases. ... Motivational premises are not entirely excluded as individuals are motivated by the need to make sense and have a positive self image. ...

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