Feral-The discovery of feral (wild) children has been reported from time to time. ... In the 1700's, a feral child known as "the wild boy of Aveyron" was studied by the scientists of his day (Itard 1962). ... Without the concepts that language provides, they can't experience or even grasp relations between people (the "connections" we call brother, sister, parent, friend, teacher, and so on). ... This process by which we learn the ways of society called socialization, is what sociologists have in mind when they say "society makes us human." 2. ... Back in the 1800s, Charles Horto...

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What do we get out of our encounters with "wild" animals? Jane Desmond suggests, and I agree, that perhaps, in this day and age when the only ocean that most of us encounter on a daily basis is the ocean of cars in the commuter lot or at the mall, we are looking to connect with nature, with the wild, with the animal in ourselves. ... As Desmond says, " animal tourism, sell[s] an experience of the natural through exposure to wild animals, whether or not the particular animals have ever lived in or even seen the mythical wilderness the are tied to it in our imaginations." ... Another cruci...

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Oscar Wild and Bernard Shaw were two of the most known and important playwrighters of the 18th century.They were strong personalities,with ideas far beyond their time,especially as far as morality is concerned.The subject of morality as it is conceived by them and by society,is represented in their play's and they criticize it according to their political ideas. ... Also O.Wilde and B.Shaw worked to develop a public persona,but their difference was that Wild used it to define an aesthetic point and Shaw used it to present ideas. ... Some of the differences between the two plays ar...

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At first reading, Jean Rousseau's "The Social Contract" and Ayn Rand's "Anthem" seem to contain two different philosophies, including completely different views on how a society should be run. While one is free, another is bound by rules. However the goal of both social doctrines is the achievement ...

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