A parable is a fictional analogy that intends to teach the audience a moral attitude. ... The parable follows a a linear structure in which the younger son asks for his part of the inheritance, leaves to recklessly spend it in 'wild living', finds himself in hard times without resources, and returns home to find acceptance from his father as well as anger from his older brother. ... The parable's main character is the younger son, whose problems are well represented on how this text is also often called, "The Parable of the Prodigal Son". ... The inclusion of this ph...

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He was brought up under deep moral and religious values. ... There are reminders of other routines "a rooster crows at daybreak, a school bell calls children to school, and a whistle calls workers to the factory. ... - (Wilder 108). ... Early in Act Two the Stage Manager tells us, "The first act was called Daily Life. This act is called Love and Marriage- (Wilder 48). ...

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That's the first paragraph of Jon Krakauer's gripping book Into the Wild (published one year before his best-selling Into Thin Air). ... He gave away his trust fund to charity, he cut all ties to his family, he burned the cash in his wallet, and finally he set off across America on a quest for moral rigor and asceticism (sparked by reading the writings of Leo Tolstoy). ... Krakauer calls his death "a terrible accident- that was not, by all appearances, an eco-suicide but a series of wrong choices. ... Would he still be so forgiving of McCandless' walk into the wild? ... ...

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Lear is exposed without shelter to the pelting of the pitiless storm, and he gets wilder with its wildness. ... He has experienced that there is no moral values in human life. ... He calls on them to blow and crack  their cheeks, to drown the churches to the steeples; they can never reach the height of his passion. ... Lear's sin is not so great as the punishment he is facing and he cries: "I am a man more sinned against than sinning. " Lear concentrates all his attentions on the moral significant of storm. ...

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Of course, we need food, shelter, water and so on, but so do wild animals. ... A religion is a cornerstone for spirituality which helps us to develop a grasp of moral characters and ethics that animals do not have. ... Everyone cannot judge his action or thought to have a good moral, nor others can judge yours, but the Bible or Quran tells us what's morally right to do or wrong. ... I have a friend called Tod, who was really a violent kid, but now I see him as a totally different person, a polite and respectable guy after he started believing in religion because the belief in god changed ...

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The News is personified as wild, out of control, animalistic, monstrous, beastly and therefore, as the reader is positioned to see, both powerful and very dangerous. ... Wild excitement! ... The narrator, who one can assume to be an exemplary investigative journalist, loses the moral high-ground as an objective, consistently reliable reporter when he uses satire to position the reader to engage with his resentment of the authorities. ... He suggests that, since the conversation between Katharina and Gotten has given great satisfaction to the uninvited listener, Beizmenne, the reader too should...

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In my opinion, individuals who experience more freedom of choice will therefore be inclined to make personal moral and ethical decisions. ... Wuthnow calls this "reflective morality" (695). Chris McCandless attempted to call upon reflective morality to find his own spirituality. ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flee, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. ... Then they just slapped new names on it and called it a new unorthodox religion. ...

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Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative. ... You might be acting in accordance with moral law - and that could be fair enough - but if it is to be a moral action, you must have conquered yourself. Only when you do something purely out of duty can it be called a moral action. Kant's ethics is therefore sometimes called duty ethics. ... He believed that man's "practical reason" would force the nations to emerge from the wild state of nature which creates wars, and make a contract to keep the peace. ...

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"The Indians had called it Waken, a reference to the clarity of its waters."" ... In postmodern America, for the most part, ideals are no longer based on a moral compass. ... It is in these lines the stages of moral decline are defined. ... The incident portrayed here symbolizes that both sexes are vulnerable to moral corruption. ... Using an example most teenagers' experience, Boyle spins a tale of youth gone wild without correction. ...

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The audience was drawn to participate with the actor's lines and especially at the end when it was time for the last call for strike. ... Using his political views and understanding of the common man odets gave the world a moral tail mixed with his left wing views and inturn propelled waiting for lefty into the history books of American theatre. ... Odets wrote several screenplays such as The General Died at Dawn, Deadline at Dawn, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Wild in The Country. ...

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"It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her,[ ] " free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being,""and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her,""it may seem marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be...

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The overriding theme of the novel is the conflict between two competing urges that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group on the one hand; and the instinct to gratify one's immediate desires, act violently to obtain superiority over others, and enforce one's will on the other. These two natures may be called "the instinct of civilization" and "the instinct of savagery," as one is devoted to values that promote ordered society and the other is devoted to values that threaten ordered society. ...

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Although Emil felt content dwelling within the realm of light with his family, the realm of darkness constantly called to him, tempting him to forsake his innocence. ... These boys were forced to survive alone in the wild without civilization. ... The emergence of this concealed, basic wildness is the theme of the book; the struggle between Ralph, the representative of civilization with his parliaments and his brain trust (Piggy, the intellectual whose shattering spectacles mark the progressive decay of rational influence as the story progresses), and Jack, in whom the spark of wildness burn...

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A British organization call Oxitec has been investing the genetically modified mosquitoes. ... Enable to keep the first batch of male mosquitoes mature and release into the wild and pass on the gene. An antibiotic called tetracycline is given to the male mosquitoes. ... The moral concept is what really concerns the scientist. ... There are a lot of environmental and moral issues facing human with the treatment of Dengue. ...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is profoundly feminist in its implications because of the opinionated female characters that voiced their beliefs and showed moral superiority over their male counterparts. ... Spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet (260). ... Bird were portrayed as holding moral superiority over their husbands. ... Sam he said der was one of dese yer perfectioners, d...

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Winners were crowned with a modest prize of a wreath of wild olive at the temple of Zeus after a great procession. ... For example, Athens allowed an Olympic champion to live free of charge in a special hall set aside for distinguished citizens called a Pyrtaneum. ... One month before the games, the athletes gathered at Elis, the organising town, to undergo spiritual, moral, and physical training under the supervision of the judges. ... The victory of the contestant provided credit to their physical and moral virtues. ... It was the moral reward that made the victory worthy of all efforts and ...

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The gangster film that was shown in class was Public Enemy directed by William Wellman, and I will be comparing that film to the classic film noir movie called Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder. ... Some characteristics or primary moods of classic film noir are melancholy, alienation, disillusionment, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. ... A film that was shown in class called Double Indemnity fits many of the noir characteristics, and is recognized as one of the great noir films. ... Another film that was shown in class was a great gangster movie of the 1930's called The...

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The paper birch has both male and female flowers called catkins. ... Benjamin Franklin had suggested that the national symbol be the Wild Turkey, because the Bald Eagle was "a bird of bad moral character", but he was outvoted. ... The Bald Eagle generally lives forty-five to fifty years in captivity and twenty-five years in the wild. ...

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Sammy is motivated not by moral responsibility, but by distaste for the older generation and the authority that they stand for. ... He was particularly taken with the girl he called "Queenie", because she seemed to have assumed the leadership role. ... Sammy seems to have the romantic personality because of his creative imagination and wild sense of humor. ...

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The women's KKK worked to elevate white Protestant women while blaming the demise of America's moral standards on Catholics, Jews, and people of color. In popular magazines throughout the period, writers called for a return to old-fashioned morals and codes of behavior that had been discarded by much of the younger generation. ... The extreme change from the idealistic "Gibson Girl" to the wild "Flapper" helped women to break out of social norms and become the independent figure she is today. ...

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What would happen if there was no authority, rules and discipline in our so called well functioning society? ... The choir was only concerned with hunting and killing the wild pigs on the island. ... The moral of the group was decreasing day by day. ...

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Huck tells Jim that he had been sleeping right there the whole time and calls Jim a fool. ... Huck finds out and gets caught up in a moral dilemma. ... Also they would engrave wild sayings on rocks and the wall. ...

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This poem is a moral allegory, which means that the poem is glorified in a way, but also represents a moral idea. ... This called the "Beheading Game". ... In another way Gawain keeps going when he is challenged with the extreme cold and the wild animals because he knows he has to finish the game that had already been started. ...

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Other than the scarlet letter, she was a very moral woman whose only joy in life was her daughter Pearl. ... Symbols Wild Rose Bush: Located just outside the prison door, it is the only sign of life near the prison, and has a single red blossom on it.The rose may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow?.... * When thinking about Dimmesdale's opposite public and private reactions to her and Hester, Pearl calls Dimmesdalea strange, sad man.? ...

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This poem is a moral allegory, which means that the poem is glorified in a way, but also represents a moral idea. ... This called the "Beheading Game". ... In another way Gawain keeps going when he is challenged with the extreme cold and the wild animals because he knows he has to finish the game that had already been started. ...

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