... everyday language, political speeches, news publications, essays and pamphlets, but does not voice any grievances with fiction writing. This is interesting because authors of fiction could fall victim to the habit of ready-made phrases as easily as those of the other institutes of language. This may be because as a fiction writer himself, he sees it as a different process altogether. When ... edit something, anything, we are almost always removing or replacing words, and rarely adding them. The result is, or should be, a superior product. Orwell wants us to be in the habit of editing ou...

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... organs-on-a-chip, is a new and amazing technology developed by Wyss Institute at Harvard University. These chips are created with human living cells, in an environment that represents their natural habit in the body. Geraldine Hamilton explains: "We are simply trying to recreate, in this tiny chip, the smallest functional unit that represents the biochemistry, the function, and the mechanical ... ...

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... find a natural, unconscious drive to do good, in fact it's in overdrive. Even people who are more predisposed to self-centeredness and aggression have a tendency to break out of that habit in order to help someone else, to in essence, protect and ensure the species continued existence. The very notion of fight or flight suggests that even down to a cellular level ... ...

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... a meaning, but the word's meaning depends on the person using it (Choat). A word can make someone do something and can also stop a person from doing that same thing. People have a habit of turning a word into the object it represents. For example, people get emotional when certain words are used like the word is a real thing. This is how behavior is affected ... ...

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... the sleepy man simply purchases another mans bed he is skipping the causes of the formation of a bed, he looses the substances history of it change, he cannot learn the habit, therefore he only demands others to create a substance that they already have, generating excessiveness which cannot lead to virtue and happiness. By taking the smaller steps through the philosophy of ... ...

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... definite, albeit mostly accurate to common western virtuosity. Adequate intellectual and moral development is necessary to fulfill these standards of virtue. Persistency is the key to maintaining a stable force of habit for which people instinctively learn the moral option. A sufficient grasp of various intellects allows a person to be in (apparent) full realization of his surroundings and more assertively independent. Superficially, these ... ...

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... truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you" (175). Brave New World is described as a satire, but John Chamberlin said: "It is Mr. Huxley's habit to be deadly in earnest" (27). His prophecies and fears in 1931 seem increasingly relevant in today's world. We may still be a long way from bottled babies and Bokanovsky groups ... ...

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... is different, the man is different."" Socrates would had argued that an unexamined life is an unconscious life because thinking never arises above practical concerns; desires are rarely pondered; custom, habit and unquestioned beliefs substitute for reflection & assessment (120). In short, an unexamined life is a life that takes the psyche for granted and ignores the "true self."" Like Socrates, I believed that ... ...

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... they could clone a new one to replace the "faulty" one. This action of swapping and selling would violate the dignity of children. Many feel that cloning children could become a harmful habit. If parents see that their cloned child has too many flaws, they could easily substitute it for a new one. Many argue that because of this specific type of cloning process ... ...

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... their choice whether to make this glimmer of existential truth their perception of life. Some individuals will deny the meaningless of their life, and return to the mechanical actions of habit to find comfort in their familiarity and meaning. These can be called the ordinary people. In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus delegitimizes ordinary people for being stuck in self-set ... ...

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... a hard time understanding his behavior. Moreover, his physical aversion with the English teacher who attempted to guide his hand in his attempting to do a synopsis of a paragraph; alone with his habit of holding his hand to shade his eyes, and his constant lack of concentration and conformity made the environment that he lived in a living hell. Carnegie Hall, at the theater ... ...

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... likened to the creatures, which display the superlative essence of a worthy headhunter.  The mantis motif permeates Asmat art, its legs equate to twigs of a tree and furthermore the female habit of eating its mates head during copulation draws a parallel with the Asmat tradition of eating their victim's brains.  The nosepieces worn by the Asmat in preparation for the final ... ...

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