An ironic comparison to the battle which takes place in the British Parliament when a office is vacant, takes place in chapter 3, when Gulliver gives a description of the rope-dancers: When a great office is vacant either by death or disgrace (which often happens) five or six of those Candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a Dance on the Rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. ... Again we see an example of how Swift gives Gulliver an opinion that ironically contradicts his own personal view. ... Swift cr...

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We also need to consider how much patients telling the stories of their sickness gives valuable--ie 'healing'--feedback to themselves, and to what extent the listeners learn valuable information about the experience of sickness and healing. 2. ... The story moves along lines of growth, development, towards maturity, and, ideally, towards health and happiness, or fulfillment, and there are the challenges, obstacles, sidetracks, that happen along the way and give our story some colour, be it bright or dark. ... Similarly the questions of adaptive and maladaptive behaviours will give a...

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In the book, "The Lie"," Ken Ham gives an example of this, "Hitler believed in struggle as a Darwinian principle of human life that forced every people to try to dominate all others; without struggle they would rot and perish Even in his own defeat in April 1945, Hitler expressed his faith in the survival of the stronger and declared the Slavic peoples to have proven themselves the stronger. " Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known evolutionist, explains how Hitler was only being consistent in what he did to the Jews; he was applying the principles of Darwinian evolution. ... Genesis chapter 1 sta...

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As the other boys begin to fall into their deep-rooted savage behaviour, Simon is the only boy who does not give in and shows that his morals are not just a conditioning from civilization. ... After Jack, Roger is second to give in and show brutality that he finds satisfaction in. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the sow's head as a gift for the beast, which symbolizes that they are giving themselves over to the evil completely. ...

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