Western industrial society has idolised ideals, rationality and a limited type of practicality and all too often regards the conscious ritual of other cultures as a frivolous curiosity (LaChapelle, 1984:1-6). ... Ritual means that we do not need much self-scrutiny or self-analysis, when things are repeated often enough they become familiar and because they are familiar they present no problem and are self explanatory (Bauman, 1997:13-16). ... Gil Richard Musolf (2001:277-295) in an analysis on John Dewey's book Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology says that...

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Therefore, it is this concept of love, in the hierarchical and dichotomous structure that preserve an abusive power relationship in which those who are dominated demand subservience and respect from those who are regarded lower, which has been the spotlight of much analysis of this novel. ... Findley's goal, much of the time is to stimulate the reader into an awareness of what is happening, in order "to prevent the horrors that are there in this book" (46). ...

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Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... Fasold (1984 in Pauwels 1988) claimed that the relationship between language and reality is that language merely reflects the reality. ...

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