... of the kami. The function of ritual, charm, festival, and cult in the community is that of providing the methods of action in order to express awe, respect, fascination, and sacred symbolism. The releases of devotion are pertinent to any religion, especially Japanese religion, because it is so drawing of other culture's rites and rituals, and therefore diverse in itself, providing many different outlets for expressions of the revered. The pervasiveness of religion in everyday life is yet another theme in ... to sacred mountains, rivers, and other places that are believed to be/possess k...

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... the age of the Romantics valued the exceptional, the genius, and the uncommon individual, the age of Realism values members of the middle class. While the age of the Romantics valued the contribution of the genius and imagination of the writer/poet, the Realists wanted to de-emphasize the contribution of the writer and thought writers should "objectively" see contemporary life as the material for their writing. They attempted to keep themselves as writers from coming between the reader and the life they presented in their art. Also, the age of the Romantics valued the ... collapse of th...

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... technology to improve production focused power in the hands of elites so that their benefits were not widely shared, and perhaps because of the outright exploitation and deprivation of some segments of society(Cohen 133). With the separation of levels throughout a civilization it caused malnutrition at the lower levels, which concludes that even enhanced technology didn't develop into a higher standard of living for all members. The major advantage large civilized societies had over ... stages of the intensification of agriculture and the development of civilization, adult life expectan...

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... the creation of city states lasted plenty of time; it is a characteristic of evolution. All these facts bring up a big question, if mistaken procedures have extinguished lives, habitats, hopes, and brought to Nietzche's predictions of nihilism, where is the experience learning? Isn't it going back rather than forth? In Old Age (the period between pre-history and renaissance) the creation of city-states took hundreds of years, the same within theocracies, in renaissance (1500-1800) the ... abolition of ... ...

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... all their divisions, for all the waste of their wars and policies, the people of Europe enjoyed a considerable and increasing prosperity. Central Europe recovered steadily from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. As provisional it was as no other age has been provisional, an age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gathering up of the ideas of men and the resources of science for a wider human effort. But the contemporary mind did not see it in that light. The ... failure of the great ... ...

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... is an exigent plea to promote cultural value of respect and tolerance for the natural environment. This is only achievable by the incorporation of formal education and the strengthening of the democratic principles that aims to maintain peace and harmony of the human life with the earth and its essential resources that guarantees survival of all life forms. "Environment education is a crosscutting theme that is an ideal instrument for developing an environmental ... culture that favors sustainable human development in harmonizing with others in the surroundings"[Mir14]. With virtue ... ...

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... . But it is not an easy thing even to confine people to a space in which his liberty is protected and his wishes can always be realized. For as we all know, the thousand years of history of men's civilization was a history of a strong power beyond the individual, sometime it took the form of tribes, countries, Parties and nations, sometime it was expressed by tradition, custom, religion and morality; sometime ... the power was extremely strong in money, economy and mass media, there has always been existing some kind ... ...

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... from their own, they must realise that they themselves have thoughts in the first place. In humans, the most common test for a theory of mind is known as the Sally-Anne test, and uses two dolls to present a false-belief situation. What commonly happens when the test is performed on children under the age of four, or those with difficulties such as autism, is that they ... however witness to all of this. When the first actor returns they begin to search for the object. The amount of time the chimpanzee stares at the actor, whilst they are searching in both locations is used as the determi...

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... ; corporeal, material nature. Aesthetics is born as a discourse of the body. It is a form of cognition, achieved through taste, touch, hearing, seeing, smell – the whole corporeal sensorium" (Buck-Morss 6). In the 21st century, the development and proliferation of video games has shown the world how pixelated, simulative art can be made into a reality, a phantasmagoria of sorts, by invoking reactions from all the senses in the human body. However, by "flood[ing ... ] the senses and fus[ing] them as a "consoling phantasmagoria" in a "permanent invitation to intoxication" ... ...

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... comparable and distinctly evident throughout history by the devastations brought onto societies by civil wars; an occurrence Hobbes himself experienced in his own time. Therefore even by living with less freedom, in the worst possible case under an absolute sovereign is better than the alternative of having all the freedom without any form of government but living in constant fear. With that being said ... , this brings me to the second criticism against Hobbes. As I have mentioned, the very basis of Hobbes' theory of peace only being attainable through an absolute ... sovereignty is bas...

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... Our laboratory has extended the use of Sindbis virus as a tool to study the role of programmed cell death in a variety of human disorders. We found that Sindbis virus infects and induces classic apoptotic cell death in a variety of cultured cell lines and in cultured primary neurons. Despite its broad tropism in cell culture, sindbis virus is profoundly neuronotropic in the brains and spinal cords of mice. Sindbis virus ... vector, together with knockout mice, has allowed us to study the role of pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins Bax and Bak in modulating the outcome of a Sindbis virus...

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... ; and de Kruif's courtly attempts to recognize the wives of the scientists for their loving supportiveness and good clerical skills would probably not go over big at the next AWIS meeting either. Perhaps the biggest change, however, is an ironic consequence of the microbe hunters' work: young people in the post-industrial nations are growing up without personal knowledge of any of the illnesses discussed in this account, and therefore can't viscerally understand ... the horror and despair once engendered by names such as cholera, diptheria, syphilis ... ...

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... to attend to serious family needs that include the serious health condition of the employee, a family member, or the addition of a new child to the employee's family. Family medical leave laws promote ethical human resource decisions because they give employers a framework for making decisions that balance important and conflicting needs in an employee's personal life with the needs of the employer. Ongoing application of this framework allows employers to develop ethical ... habits that are the core of ethical business decisions. The habits formed by employers in complying with family ...

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... predictable and stable life as apposed to the impetuous life that I lead with my family at the moment. I want to achieve a lot of things in the future and I know that most of them will probably never come true because the future is an "unreliable backstabber" as the famous Arabic saying goes and so I must learn to live with it and remember only all the things that I have accomplished and not ... the things that were denied me. My point of view of the future at the moment might well change as I discover ... more about my life and fate unfolds itself before me but I trust that whatever h...

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... are in the advanced stages of decomposition. Basically it is the analysis of decomposed, or otherwise human remains that is important in both legal and humanitarian contexts. Forensic Anthropology uses scientific techniques used in physical anthropologies to study human remains, and aid in detection of crimes. Apart from assisting in locating and recovering human remains, Forensic Anthropologist's work on determining the age, sex , ancestry , stature, and unique features of a dead from the skeleton. The also ... anthropologists are employed at universities and forensic facilities around...

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... much or little they had had in earlier years. In this way people can respond to challenges coming from the changing economy and work requirements but also widen their individual horizons and be encouraged in finding new interests. Anyway it is important to underline that there are still millions of illiterate people, both adults and children; it must be therefore the aim of all countries to destroy every kind ... of barrier - financial, socio-cultural, etc. - to the education of all this people. We cannot ... ...

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... is an exigent plea to promote cultural value of respect and tolerance for the natural environment. This is only achievable by the incorporation of formal education and the strengthening of the democratic principles that aims to maintain peace and harmony of the human life with the earth and its essential resources that guarantees survival of all life forms. "Environment education is a crosscutting theme that is an ideal instrument for developing an environmental ... culture that favors sustainable human development in harmonizing with others in the surroundings"[ CITATION Mir14 l 1033 ....

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... we humans treat factory-farmed animals is chastised by utilitarianism, making it unethical. According to the ledger-book of utilitarianism, the advantages of consuming meat would need to exceed the price of animals being tortured in factory-farms. Matheny reasons how the torturing of 17 billion animals is greater than the additional probabilities of pleasure that the depletion of the proceeding meat could offer. Nevertheless, Matheny adds on that humans do not possess any ... real nutritional requirement for animal commodities, so is it considered applicable for us to even reflect of ou...

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... , doctors and philosophers such as James Rachels and Daniel Callahan regularly disagree on whether or not it is possible to make a meaningful distinction between the two terms at all. In "Killing and Allowing to Die,"" Daniel Callahan, a professor at the Harvard Medical School and the founder of The Hastings Center for Bioethical Research, argues that, while there are certain ambiguities that can make it difficult to see ... . If society were to allow physicians to take life directly, serious abuses of this power would likely follow. In "Active and Passive Euthanasia,"" James Rachels reje...

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... small, all aspects of human activity have affected and will continually until the end of time affect the land we live on. Ever since, the first human set foot on this planet, s/he has altered the face of the Earth forever. S/he has been using and at times abusing the Earth's natural resources, contributing to the unnoticeable slow degrading of the Earth's ecosystems. This became seeming true and magnified in magnitude when the Industrial Revolution ... with biogeochemical cycles are usually too severe for improvement. The gaseous elements of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and the solid car...

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