... audience. She goes on to state that the cinematic gaze that is presented to the audience is always a masculine gaze, and women are always the object of viewing, but never portrayed to be the bearer of the gaze. Mulvey addresses Freud's theory of scopophilia to supplement her arguments on the mechanism of objectifying the images on the screen. The pleasure that arises ... ; qualities. Jeffries, in addition, is rendered immobile throughout the film, which forces him into a position of dependence on Lisa. Furthermore, Mulvey's descriptions of the ego and its role in producing pleasure throu...

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... of the meaning of dreams. The objective of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of both Freud's and Jung's similar, yet differing, views of unconscious dreams in relation to personality and to compare and contrast the interpretations and methods held by each man. By the end of the paper, it will have become clear that, despite ... interpretation, both theories aid each other in their joint ongoing quest to define personality and the human awareness of self and meaning. Through their distinct methods, both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology seek a meaningful connection bet...

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... as the objects-in contrast to the agents-of exploitation and colonization. It is in the disparate representations, descriptions, and judgements of these native societies and European civilization that imperialistic biases are most evident. Through both film and literature, Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din exhibit a clear dichotomy between Europeans and natives: while Europeans are portrayed as individuals and endowed with admirable traits, native peoples are overgeneralized, dehumanized ... , and described negatively. Moreover, natives are only depicted more favorably when they ... ...

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... Million Gods", narrated by David Gyre, explores the ancient religion of Hinduism in it's native India, elucidating its philosophies and offering first-hand accounts of its rituals and practices. By exposing western minds to the radically dissimilar mentality of Hinduism and the lifestyles if its practitioners, this film succeeds in explaining the central ideas of the practiced religion as well as the philosophy of ... Hinduism throughout the country, the reverence of specific gods such as Krishna and Shiva, as well as the fundamental philosophies such as karma and reincarnation. By enf...

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... economic security of the country. Under current law economic security is a state of protection of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus from internal and external conditions, processes and factors that threaten its sustainable development and economic independence. Today, identification, detection, investigation and prevention of crimes in the field of customs are among the priorities as it affects the economic security of our country ... that contribute to their occurrence. The fight against customs offenses cannot be conducted only by criminal methods. The history of civiliz...

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... or 347, St. Jerome observed the violent disintegration of Greco-Roman civilization. His family was Catholic and fairly wealthy, and Jerome was well educated at home and in Rome, primarily in grammar and rhetoric. Although he describes his early life as one of idleness and lack of scholarly ambition, his increasing interest in ecclesiastical literature and scriptural studies was stimulated by his interaction with a close group of ... , Jerome's version of the Vulgate (finished in 404) was affirmed as the "authentic" Bible of the Roman Catholic Church by the Council of Trent in the sixteen...

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... that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference." For instance, in the mid-seventeenth century Englishman Richard Ligon wrote of the black women he encountered on his travels as having monstrous bodies, with breasts that "[hung] down below their navels, so that when they [stooped] at their ... by "dancing down" one man after another in the center. Whether through competitive dance or fashion showcasing, these heterodox behaviors countered the status branded upon enslaved women, and more significantly empowered them to...

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... people globally through a few touches on the screen, to the airplanes roaring across the sky, the astounding capabilities and convenience that technology offers is unmatched. In "Why Literature Matters", an article from the New York Times Corporation by Dana Gioia, Gioia explores how living in ... the high-tech 21st century has unfortunately deteriorated the percentage of Americans who read literature. Gioia is able to sway his audience to devote more time to the simple task of reading works of intellectual value through fearful diction and ... propel his argument into a plan of action...

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... [note oakeshott phrase earlier], we first need to identify precisely what distinguishes the hunting of Moby-Dick from the hunting of sperm whales generally, and why this difference points towards two essentially different visions of the state. After all, the hunting of one particular sperm whale for vengeance does not seem ... no less than the former aims at an easily specified end. If we concentrate on the similarly purposeful quality of the quest for vengeance and toil for profit, Moby-Dick might present itself most readily as a critique merely of some kinds of state-mandated purpose,...

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... ; therefore concluding that the consumption of factory-farmed produce is not ethically acceptable. Matheny's first premise behind his argument is explaining how utilitarianism is a rational and ethical theory. So readers may ask why it is considered this way. Well, Matheny asserts how his theory is higher-ranking towards other ethical assumptions, basically meaning that utilitarianism can be relevant when ... would give reason that little distress with very many would exceed great distress amidst the few. This statistical correspondence is remarkable when thousands of factory-farmed ani...

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... new laptop can be very expensive or very cheap, it all depends on the time it took to create it, the materials used in it and the performance that the laptop will give to the person who buys it. Another case might occur when a manager wants to hire an employee, he ... in the long run. The second principle that I chose is "Trade Can Make Everyone Better Off", this is a very important and popular principle that is practiced every day from children trading toys to huge potencies exchanging resources that will benefit both of them. Since resources were ... the incentives they face, this mean...

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... of implementing online voting has been widely discussed and debated as demonstrated in articles "Why Internet voting is bad for democracy" by Froma Harrop and "Internet Voting can Reform Democracy" by Nobuo Ikeda. These articles represent different views about the relationship between internet voting and democracy. The Internet continues to influence and evolve society and as a result political discussion on internet voting is ... . With internet voting as a subject of debate in today's society, it is evident that society is evolving and in response democracy will evolve. The right to vo...

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... over beauty into powerful emotion. It seems the opposition between the two arises from Burke's definitions of joy and delight. Beauty is reminiscent of joy because it creates pleasure smoothly and arises daintily on its own, while the sublime arises from delight, which is pleasure from the loss of pain, in two ways ... . The first is that sublimity can arise when one goes through pain in order to exacerbate beauty into the overwhelming emotion that he or she has been striving for, and ... but that moment when they get their hands on it creates a feeling of sublimity through the knowledge...

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... different of phobias that have been observed by psychologists, they have been able to separate them into three different categories: agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobia. Agoraphobia is the most disabling of the phobias one can get, which results when one has an intense fear of being in ... that one can gain are classified as specific phobias, which have four different categories: situational phobia, fear of natural environment, animal phobia, and blood-injection-injury phobia. Between these four categories are more than 350 different types of specific phobias, which range fro...

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... ). Such techniques of providing employees have a voice in the evaluation help predict employees' satisfaction with the appraisal system and develop trust in the system and people who implement it. Moreover, an employee who participates in developing the appraisal system and understands how it works and why it is used is less concerned about going to the court. Second, the employer must be sure that the ... . Third, communication is another key to less court appeals on the employees side. If the employee knows why a new system of appraisal is developed, what the purposes of the system are,...

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... and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) relates to children and families within the social welfare system. This will allow the reader to gain an understanding of what the policy is and why it was enacted, what the positive and negative pieces of the policy are, how the policy affects children and ... families, if the policy working the way it was intended, and if the policy effects different groups of people differently ... the intended purposes. In order to understand how to provide accurate assistance to individuals' initial assessments of a recipients' skills, prior work exp...

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... Ray Rits (1970) found that in an American kindergarten students' were seated according to class background, higher class students were labeled 'tigers' and working class 'clowns', labeling like this causes under-achievement within the working class, as they're demotivated to do well, this is known ... area meaning it's not a representative sample, in addition to this both studies neglect the external factors which could be affecting the behaviors and achievement of the students in schools. Marxists criticize the labeling theory, as although there are many factors within the educat...

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... high divorce rates could be due to the romanticization of marriage, people now marry for love therefore have very high expectations of marriage and when their expectations aren't met they're unwilling to make compromises hence leading to divorce. Over the past 45 years cohabitation has increased ... of the population felt that premarital sex is okay, therefore more couples began to cohabit. There's a correlation between the number of people marrying and cohabiting, as the number of people marrying decreases, the number of people cohabiting increases, however Robert Chester (1985) suggests...

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... of anthropology as a discipline. Romantic, sociocultural anthropologists believe anthropology to not be scientific as scientific knowledge implicitly requires knowledge to be acquired through impersonal means and anthropological knowledge is acquired through personal experience. Anthropology is also considered an art by anthropologists such as Harris, whose definition of science in anthropology did not ... conclusion. Moses believes anthropology to be a discipline that encompasses art and science in terms of being able to identify patterns and then through humanistic approach, provide d...

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... ." (Weber in Calhoun 2012:291) He observed that this phenomena is somewhat explainable by historical circumstances- in the 16th century, "a large number of the richest and most economically developed areas" converted to Protestantism. (Weber in Calhoun 2012:292) Although, historical reasoning does not fully account for the overwhelming representation of those who practice ... Protestantism among those considered as the haves in society- capitalists- and skilled workers. Weber then brings to light certain attributes of the Catholic faith that may have caused the lack of Catholic represent...

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... learning is that an individual's leadership style of role modelling, reward and reinforcement, and balance of power empowers employees/ followers to adapt, emulate and be conditioned to that leader's behavior as it may be considered as acceptable by the organization. This raises an important question regarding the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational assessment - why major corporation exhibited extreme lack of corporate governance on a global ... level. Was this due to laxity and gray areas between diverse global laws and regulations? Was it due to the deliberate...

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... found to have variations in different organisms, particularly those belonging to the domain Archaea. This has led to new speculations about the prevalence of glycolysis in both archaea and eukaryotes as well as its importance in the evolution of all living organisms. The glycolytic pathway, in almost every living organism, involves complex oxidation-reduction reactions that occur as a result of the ... be ubiquitous in all glycolytic pathways. This suggests that the pathway may have had its origins in certain archaea which conducted glycolysis with the use of only enolase and pyruvate kin...

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... order to achieve an optimum "productive tension" such that the people benefit from civil society, whilst ensuring that the state remains effectively governed? In this essay, I shall explain why I believe that the government should not be responsible for growing civil society, but instead should be responsible for providing an environment that allows civil society to grow independently. Civil society ... record 149th position in terms of press freedom in an annual report by non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders. Therefore, the government should stick to its distinct rol...

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... When deconstructing myth in terms of archetypes it is important to consider that the psychological and psychoanalytical context underlying such an analyses is only one means of studying myth and does not exist without its critics. In "the structural study of myth" Claude Levi Strauss argues that ... , by definition, it escapes the individual but is still intimately related to the individual. Therefore, Ishtar represents certain qualities of the anima- divine nature and sexuality. When viewing the role of Siduri in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" a third fundamental aspect of the anima is reveal...

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... this took out the possibility of co-operation. This strength of two diametrically opposed stances was a severe and influential obstacle and reason as to why Germany failed to unite before 1860. Interstate Rivalry was a distinctive and troublesome problem. The rulers were partially all pro-nationalist and pro-liberals, however they were not willing to sacrifice their autonomy in search of unification. They chose to ... catholic states having a bond with France. Britain visioned a united Germany as a naval threat; control of the North Sea and Baltic States would provide Prussia with naval ...

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