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Nature

            One of the most controversial debates of modern society is the idea that our "natures?and how we are nurtured are in conflict with each other to determine what defines who we are. When one attempts to define sex and gender, he/she often finds him/herself stumped as to what the definitions are. More so, one is puzzled by where the came from. How do nature and nurture influence the definitions of sex and gender? To understand how nature and nurture affect these definitions, we must first know what they are. Sex is biological while gender is socially constructed. Genes produce sex. It exists in itself, and is sublimely indifferent to what humans think of it. Gender is the meanings that society assigns to sex. Richard Mulcaster wrote the words, "Nature makes the boy toward, nurture sees him forward.?Even though nature plays a role in defining sex and gender, nurture plays the greater part in helping society define the two terms.
             Definitions come from that which is learned, not that which is part of our genetic system. John Locke believed that all people were born with a blank slate (a tabula rasa.) He and other Empiricists thought that experiences were written into the mind and that every aspect of human behavior is acquired from the environment that surrounds them. Take for example the story which Susan Baxter tells in her article "The Last Word on Gender Differences?of the boy who was castrated at birth and raised as a girl. .
             "Amazingly, this boy had an identical twin brother, which made it possible to compare two genetically identical individuals raised as a boy and a girl. our hero became the perfect little girl, the very picture of adorable femininity.?(Baxter 52) .
             This boy was clearly raised as a girl and he grew up thinking of himself as a girl. He was not born as a female and he did not have a predetermined image of himself as one. This boy grew up as a girl because throughout his life he was told that he was a girl and he was taught to be feminine.


Essays Related to Nature

1. Man and Nature in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

As if the nature went mad about the Mariner and wants to penance him. ... He perceives nature with his senses. ... The man and nature are apart. ... An element of nature is a natural phenomenon that humans cannot control. ... If we see him as a  person who had undergone a journey of separation from nature, penance, forgiveness and reunion with nature, the term "home " can be interpreted as the state in which he unifies himself with nature again. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

2. The Nature of Evil in Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne approached his use of the nature of evil very intelligently and uniquely in his stories. ... The following will explain the nature of evil in the stories, "The Scarlet letter" and the "Minister's Black Veil". ... Figuring out the nature of evil in this novel is an in-depth thought. ... The person who is taking the punishment directly is Hester herself, but is she really the nature of evil for the sin she has committed? ... The true nature of evil is found in Chillingworths carefully plotted revenge and selfish and deranged love. ...

  • Word Count: 471
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  • Grade Level: High School

3. The nature conservancy

I researched the the Nature Conservancy which was established in 1951, and since then, they have been working to protect more than 117 million acres. ... The priority initiatives that are focused on in the Nature Conservancy are fire, climate change, freshwater, marine, and invasive species. ... Just the Nature Conservancy invests billions of dollars to help preserve places. ... For example, some of the partners that work with the Nature Conservancy are governmental, Non-Profit, local stakeholders, international, multilateral-bilateral, and corporate. ... The Nature Conservancy is very imp...

  • Word Count: 551
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. The Topic of Human Nature

Human nature is as good; it's just that the pressures in our environment weigh much mass on us and tends to crush our good nature. ... Human nature is related to nature, and this means it's an original material(Kaebnick, 2013). ... That's what the instincts are all about, nature. ... This delay eliminates the involvement of intuitive mechanism, which means nature is out of question in this case and so do human nature. ... Hence, human nature is as bad. ...

  • Word Count: 1051
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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Human Nature in The Tyger and The Lamb

That questions the nature of God. ... Both poems consist of only one exclamatory sentence, each emphasizing respectively on the good and bad nature of Him and thus referring to the contrary states of human nature, because man is created on the analogy of the image of God. ... Blake's spelling of the title suggests the dangerous and unfamiliar nature of the beast. ... So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. ... Blake describes violence in order to show us the other side of the human nature- nature, which can be descri...

  • Word Count: 1920
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  • Grade Level: High School

6. Human Interaction with Nature and Society

Human's wondering about the life and nature is clearly depicted in "Nature" of Emerson. The man in "Nature" feels lonely because nobody is with him. ... The secret of nature is untouchable. ... People appreciate nature, but no one knows what nature actually is. ... What people assume about the life is a shadow of the real nature. ...

  • Word Count: 1571
  • Approx Pages: 6
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  • Grade Level: High School

7. Nature Vs. Nurture

The nature vs. nurture controversy has gone on for many years and is presently still going on. ... But however nature and nurture combined makes us who we are. I Nurture is more important in parenting children but once they are reached there teens or older nature is more important. ... Researchers in Canada who have study the positive effects of nurture have tested baby rats whose other gave them more attention and found they learn more easily and nature-genetic differences are difficult to change but however it was found nurturing differences are easy to change. ... In conclusion I feel n...

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8. Thomas Hobbes Theory

What has been argued for years is the question of man's state of nature. ... Man by his basic nature loves himself. ... A good argument for my belief in man's basic nature would be Iraq. ... The nature of man prevents this from happening. ... Oppression is not a basic nature. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

9. Nature

Nature often controls the fate of fictional character in stories. ... The man's reaction towards nature changes through out the story. ... In addition, nature also parallels to the father's fate in the story "the egg." In "the egg," the father tries to against his nature of being an ordinary man. His dream of being an ambitious man fails after the nature and fate has played on him. ...

  • Word Count: 621
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  • Grade Level: High School

10. Nature

Emerson believed nature is the essences unchanged by man. How we view what is around us, but very few adults can see nature. ... "A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty." ... Language is a third use which nature sub serves to man. ... In the third fact, Emerson believed nature is the symbol of spirit. ...

  • Word Count: 1066
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

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