He found in literature the main instrument of education i.e, studying the standard literature of his country; knowledge of some art, rudiments of the science of numbers & figures. ... He conceived that in early life the main instruments for bringing out what was best in the soul were first, literature, beginning with stories for children & going on to poetry: secondly, music, playing & singing; & thirdly, the plastic arts in general. ... The gentler side of life should also be developed & Plato has recommended the study of music for the achievement of that object. ... His approach was psycholo...

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Furthermore, the file drawer effect refers to the practice of researchers filing away studies with negative outcomes. ... In a secondary study conducted by Baker, the results were similar. ... The results from both studies provided little evidentiary support for those who insist that people somehow can sense when they are being stared at. ... In addition, there is a huge literature on probability learning that suggests people are very good at learning global and local probabilities in the patterning of events which is what appears to have happened during Sheldrake's experiment (Servan-Sc...

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Orwell's Gripe Commenting on and criticizing literature is a common practice. ... We've encountered such concerns already; studying the likes of Alexander Pope and Matthew Arnold. ... Arnold felt that the spread of education, an education which employed a fixed cannon, dedicated to literature that was established and recognized as great art, would lead to acceptably cultured masses. ...

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I read Love in the Cornhusks by Aida Rivera-Ford for my Literature critical paper. ... Tinang also got to study until the sixth grade thus she could converse quite well. ... Amando is ambitious and he told Tinang of his dreams of studying Mechanical Engineering in the city and then of course, it was revealed in the letter that Amando also dreamed of being with Tinang forever. ... I neglect school work and instead of studying, I go out and party thinking that I could always catch up. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature can easily be used as a prime study for psychoanalysis. Freud's ideas and assumptions can be perfectly linked in a psychoanalysis of The Scarlet Letter. In fact, Freud himself has studied Hawthorne's characters in order to develop his postulations about the unconscio...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's literature can easily be used as a prime study for psychoanalysis. Freud's ideas and assumptions can be perfectly linked in a psychoanalysis of The Scarlet Letter. In fact, Freud himself has studied Hawthorne's characters in order to develop his postulations about the unconscio...

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A utilitarian will say that we, as humans are capable of a higher level of pleasure that exists only on an level, such as the appreciation of arts and literature, and the pursuit of knowledge, and that the appreciation of pleasures of these nature are part of what makes us human. When Mill was a child his father enforced his education with lessons and a rigorous regimen of study. ...

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Studies have shown that audio and visual stimuli can activate different regions in the brain without the participant being aware. ... The confirmation of the theoretical and practical implications of these results would add to the social-cognitive literature and be socially interesting. ...

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At least two studies indicated that more than 90% of respondents perceived greater media impact on others than on themselves (Paxton, 1995; Tiedge, Silverblatt, Havice, & Rosenfield, 1991). ... Indeed, the literature defining pluralistic ignorance (Merton, 1968; O'Gorman, 1975) is founded on such inaccurate perceptions of public beliefs. ...

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