... Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". The criteria, namely the aesthetic, dealt with the "general intellectual distinction". This has resulted in value judgement, particularly to the non-great-books. Social background, linguistic, ideology, ... men, they cannot perform such atrocious acts as shown for example in Homer and Aeschylus (the examples in Republic 26-29). Such portrayals provide justification for men to commit such acts themselves, and therefore these misrepresentations of gods and heroes are harmful to a general popu...

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... perform in cultural sphere (79.4% male, 71.7% female). The 36.6% of male and 41.3% of female respondents think that their political rights are infringed. But 47% of male and 39.9% of female respondents feel that it is possible to perform in political sphere. About 20% of respondent could not answer at least one question. Most of them are people from 23 to 27. By Sex% Yes No ... Female Male Female Economic 66.5 58.8 21.8 26.1 11.7 15.1 Social 71.9 62.1 15.8 21.2 12.2 16.6 Cultural 84.5 76.8 7.1 11.9 8.4 11.3 Civil 79.4 71.7 10.8 15.2 9.8 13.0 Political 48.0 39.9 36.6 41.3 15.4 18.8 Profe...

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... COVER PAGE ABSTRACT NOTES Objectives (from Syllabus) Maybe we can use this for something: This paper will compare inpatient/residential and intensive out patient treatment programs, identify the characteristics of successful substance abuse treatment programs, and explain the relevance of (all) treatment modalities to the workplace. findings of on-site visit (each student is expected to complete a site visit for their learning team) to ... to send out the tests to a certified laboratory. I found the facility to be a strict, but comfortable place for a person to utilize for substance abus...

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... Valley, Proceedings of the prehistoric Society, 39. O"Sullivan, M 1986 Approaches to Passage Tomb Art, JRSAI 116. O"Sullivan, M 1997 Megalithic Art in the Boyne Valley, Bru na Boinne supplement, Archaeology Ireland. Shee, E 1973 The Techniques of Irish Passage Grave Art, in Kjaerum, P and Daniel, G.E (eds), Megalithic Graves and Ritual, Jutland Archaeological Society, 11. Essay title: Compare and contrast the megalithic art at Loughcrew with that in ... the Boyne Valley. Taking into account the location of both complexes in the Irish landscape and your knowledge of the Neolithic in both...

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... to "controlled drinking" where you rely on personal self control to determine when you have consumed enough alcohol. In the U.S.A., abstinence is believed to be the treatment of choice after suffering from alcohol abuse (Leischow, 2002). The popular group AA, with its twelve step healing program for alcohol abusers, promotes abstinence as the only way to achieve successful recovery. One ... months, it decreased the risk of returning to heavy drinking from 48% to 37% and decreased drinking days by 4.5%.It helped people become abstinent (Saitz, 2005). When another drug, acamprosate was gi...

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... and investigative and aircraft resources to participating States to eradicate domestically cultivated marijuana. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), of the estimated 1,538,813 State and local arrests for drug abuse violations in 2002, about 5.4% were for marijuana sale/manufacturing and 39.9% were for possession. There were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests in the United States in 1997. This ... was the largest number in U.S. history. Of these arrests, 87% were for possession rather than sale or manufacture. The percentage of possession arrests has been at least 80...

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... X-ray machines, electromagnetic resonance tomography, and expert computer diagnostic systems. Patients are treated with injection, drug, radiation, and surg! ical therapies as abstract and impersonal in their own way as the electricity or statistics upon which those treatments depend. Issues go beyond the treatment of individual patients, especially when public expenditures are involved. How much public investment should be ... maps, photographs, paintings, and so forth, all of which are gushing into the Internet. The Internet has recently been described as resembling "an enormous used ...

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... -listening condition. Findings could have important implications for classroom reading activities and the way listening labs are used. Finally, we note that this design could be adapted to compare the learning effects of reading illustrated and unillustrated materials, or combinations of picture and sound assistance. 4.2 How important are frequent encounters? The thesis experiments have shown that comprehension-focused readers can acquire a great deal ... only five times fared substantially worse that the words met ten times. Experimentation with different numbers of exposures and varyin...

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... judge themselves overweight when by objective standards they are not, whereas men are more likely to perceive themselves as underweight with respect to objective standards" (582). Women who compare themselves to the females portrayed through the media feel a lot less satisfied with how they look since the females presented in different media resources are very tiny. Men, on the other hand, tend ... whether they are thin, big, have cellulite, or not because no one in the world is perfect. As argued by Mathew M. Avram in the article "Cellulite: A Review of Its Physiology and Treatment," "...

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... , socioeconomic factors or the risk to a mother's health. In many parts of the world there is prominent public controversy over the moral, ethical, and legal issues of abortion. Those who are against abortion generally state that an embryo or fetus is a human with the right to life and may compare abortion to murder. Those who support abortion rights emphasize a woman's right to ... decide matters concerning her own body as well as emphasizing human rights generally. Most abortions result from unintended pregnancies. In the United Kingdom, 1 to 2% of abortions are done due to genetic pro...

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... the academic literature as to how employee engagement can be influenced by management. There has been significant interest in employee engagement, but this has been coupled with a good deal of misunderstanding. According to Kular et al (2008), this misunderstanding can be partly attributed to the fact that there is no definitive definition, resulting in engagement ... performance to comparable companies in the same industry with a ratio of 2.5:1 during 2004. Conversely the stock price of companies with low moral underperformed in relation to the industry competitors by a ratio of 5:1. A...

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... administrative, and educational measures to look after children from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect, and exploitation by parents or others in positions of authority. It also compels Canada to supply for programs of support, prevention, and treatment in cases of hostility and child abuse. With regards to school discipline, article 28 calls on Canada to make ... sure that school discipline is administered in a manner dependable with the child's human distinction. Under article 37, children ... that violence and aggression are acceptable as a solution t...

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... :41). Cuyler, an American scholar, similarly emphasizes the fact that sumo is more than a sport - it is "a ritual of timeless dignity and classical form. It is a glimpse of ages past, of the history of Japan. Repeated interaction with Shinto religious belief and practice from the early centuries of the Christian era left a profound and indelible mark on the sport" (1985:13). Tradition in sumo has also ... :9). Hobsbawm, however, do! es not clearly express how, by whom and for what purpose traditions are invented; he only highlights the role of elites and state institutions. In one of the ...

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... 5.3.4 Work climate ........................................................................................................... 38 5.3.5 Recognition ............................................................................................................. 39 6. Discussion ............................................................................................................................ 41 6.1 The role attributed to HRM ............................................................................................ 41 6.2 The contribution of HRM in innovation processes. ..............

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... had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of Emerson that remains prominent and, I would suggest at the outset, stands in need ... and to context, metonymy offers the compositional tools for that more intensely empirical writing scholars have found emerging in Thoreau's later work. And yet, this literal figure of empiric...

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... growing confidence in the medium. The prevalence of online romantic relationships is one of the ways this is most noticeable. It is attractive to be able to find potential partners in a relaxed environment where one can pursue or shun a relationship. But how does a relationship that is started or conducted entirely online compare to a relationship that is started with a traditional meeting in a place such ... as a bar or a coffee shop? And does one's view on online relationships differ dependent upon whether or not one has attempted a relationship in a virtual environment. Through our re...

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... ; First aid and safety personnel may be informed for the purpose and only to the extent they need to know if the disability might require emergency treatment; and • Government officials investigating the employer's compliance with the ADA may be informed" (Peteros, 134). Posting Requirements Employers are required to post a notice to all employees in a "conspicuous" place. These ... reporting relationships, working environment, and knowledge/skills/abilities. Most job descriptions are narrative in form. A job candidate should be able to read a job description and get a basic concept of...

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... 455 executions in the United States for rape and 99 occurred in Texas alone (Marquart 39). Texas accounted for 22 percent of rape-related executions in the United States but only consisted of 7.3 percent of the nation's total population (Texas 4). Therefore, Texas executes a proportionately higher percentage of offenders compared to its population. Because Texas is rooted deep in southern tradition and adheres ... "--who was "us" and who was "them"--then executions were implemented to serve the exact same purpose. (3) Dr. Halperin identifies an interesting link between the treatment of ...

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... often leads to various tensions that are elaborated in the Second Shift by Arile Hochschild, where she shows how the child of the Holt couple, Joey becomes a victim of the lack of time that his family can afford to spend with him as a result of their professional commitments. In contrast to this time-crunch developing among married couples in the last three decades, Stephanie Coontz ... are between 1950 and 1970, many couples could construct harmonious marriages that would allow them to devote a lot of time to their children. This was mainly made possible by the turning of women to the ...

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... Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work, London, Routledge. Clarke, J., Cochrane, A. and McLaughlin, E. (eds) (1994) Managing Social Policy, London, Sage. Part 2 Compare and contrast two areas of social policy in relation to the political, economic and social settlements. The two areas of social policy that I will be comparing and contrasting are health care and social housing. Social democracy, which shaped the nature ... though people were expected to be more independent and self-reliant they still felt reassured by the knowledge that if they became seriously ill or needed emerge...

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... to take power away from the opposing Optimates. The senators of Livy just as effectively deal with the progressive Cassius as the later Optimates deal with Gracchus, but do it in a more dignified, more Roman way. The treatment of Gracchus is precisely what Livy thinks the Roman people must avoid ... Caesar. After defeating Pompey, Caesar supposedly abandons the facade of not holding complete power and rules without disguise, being dictator-for-life (Appian, The Civil Wars, 4.1). Compare this to Appius Claudius when the term of the second set of decemvirs is up and elections for the consul...

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... been used to treat sex offenders. In the past, these drugs were used in the typical treatment of disorders such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders. It affects what may be the "most important of the brain chemicals in reducing sexual behaviors." (Smithson) The use of drug treatment for hormonal and chemical imbalances is a reversible procedure, whereas castration is not (Lacayo, 1992). ... , when used, has shown significant reductions in recidivism rates among sexual offenders. CPA is a synthetic steroid that is similar in structure to progesterone. The use of CPA in the tre...

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... necessity to maintain Torah in order for the Church to continue, but it is now seen in the light of the good news of the kingdom of God (Luke 16:16; Acts 13:39). PAUL IN ACTS Just as Luke seeks to validate the authenticity of Jesus in the Gospel using various techniques, Brawley sees the same motif as a major theme in Acts. Luke sought ... , the Apostle to the Gentiles," has the ability to colour a reader's judgment about Paul's thinking. Who then, is Luke's Paul? Beginning with the first mention of Paul as a zealous persecutor of Christians, to the miraculous circumstances of his conver...

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... that focus on response inhibition, distractibility, reaction times, and word recall are commonly used to measure these cognitive functions. Researchers compare the performance of methamphetamine abusers to the performance of a control group composed of non-abusers. The results are analyzed in order to determine if any significant differences are present. Researchers make associations about regions ... methamphetamine abuse leads to dopamine transporter reduction that then causes psychomotor impairment. Volkow et al. (2001b) also investigated whether methamphetamine abuse is associated w...

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... trusting and less co-operative. One must be very careful not to give one's own position favourable treatment - to not accept, as sufficient grounds for our breaking of a promise, grounds which we would not hold sufficient if someone else had given them for their breaking of a promise. That said, there are some cases where utility is better served by the breaking rather than ... , "The sole evidence that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it". This theory is easy to believe but with a little "background check" is quite a basic derivatio...

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