Melissa Lane, in her common lecture on what she has dubbed "sustainable citizenship," present the refusal to fight for social justice and the common good as one such action that imposes a psychological cost to the "Good Life" by distorting its very essence as a communal ambition and making it an individual pursuit based on selfish ends rather than the desire for universal, harmonious citizenship. ... As this happens, whites and blacks begin to formulate their own understandings of the "Good Life.... Melissa Lane, in her common lecture on "sustainable citizenship,&...

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The productions of these occupations facilitate their own social institutions and provide leisure for an entire subculture of fans. ... The working question for this paper looks into how the members of these occupations view the meanings of their subjective careers in terms of derived satisfaction, the effects that intrinsic and extrinsic influences have on there satisfaction, and how a strong sense of ambition has helped to propel them to eminence. ... This will be followed by a presentation and analysis of my findings supporting the argument that these are in fact high-pressure occupations a...

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When in our own lives we are to find the basis of our human nature, we must look to our early years, the formative years. ... Generally, humans are a species that thrive to better their own lives and if possible others lives also. Human Nature also inhibits the qualities of greed, ambition, pride etc. ... Human nature has aspects including love, greed, and ambition which dogs do not. ...

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As time and context changes, significant developments and changes have occurred in the representation of women, their ambitions and ideas of selflessness and choices. ... Society's highest expectation for a woman was that she marries and be a good, respectable wife and mother, even if this meant she could not pursue her own dreams. This idea of ambition is reiterated throughout A Gathering Light through both Grace Brown and Mattie Gokey. ... Ambition is also seen in Mattie's dream of being a writer. ... This is evidence for society's spurning of women pursuing an ambition instea...

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On the other hand the society has its own values which everyone who lives there have to follow it. The widely accepted values by the society are ambition, religion, marriage and work. ... They don't like people who do nothing and have no ambition. ...

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Dickens establishes the theme and shows Pip learning this lesson, largely by exploring ideas of ambition and self-improvement. Ambition and self-improvement take two forms in Great Expectations "moral and social; these motivate Pip's best and his worst behavior throughout the novel. ... Somehow, in the course of her life, she has to bring all these things together to form a stable and satisfying sense of her own identity. ... This is a development confirmed in the novel by her marriage to Rochester and her giving birth to her own children. ... In contrast, an orphan...

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It can be someone in your own home, someone who has taken care of you for your entire life. ... I want to have the same ambition and drive that she has and I know that one day I will be as great as she is. ... She has taught me how to be strong and be my own person. ... My Mother has so much ambition to be better and do better and even though she may not succeed she still gives it her all, she never lets obstacles get in her way. ... Certain things she would just let me fight my own battles but she would still reassure me that she was there if I needed her. ...

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New ideas, concepts, endeavors and ambitions rose and fell within this era concerned with the "community". ... Many people were sick of feeling as though they had no right to choose their own path and feared that if they strayed from such a path as set before them by Catholicism harm would be done to them, either in this life or in the after. ...

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Education gives one an opportunity to earn money, own property, buy goods and contribute to the social and political aspects of our country, which gives us a healthy democracy." ... There are two prominent points of view: 1) the poor are primarily responsible 2) society is primarily responsible for poverty; lack of ambition is the consequence of insufficient opportunities Because of the positive changes in our society in the last 40 years, I find it hard to believe society is the current problem. ...

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Just as Rousseau condemned his own children, Frankenstein abandoned his own creation -- the monster, similarly condemning his "child" to a life of ostracism and social rejection. ... To embrace and raise his five children and marry his mistress would be a contradiction of his theory which rejected all social obligations; so, instead of sacrificing his potential for glory, Rousseau sacrificed his own children. ... Therefore, because the monster is a product of Frankenstein's pursuit for glory, Frankenstein is seen to be condemned to misery as a consequence of his blind ambitions. ... There...

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Eliza is a victim of the conventions in society that leads her at the end of the play to simply leave and live on her own. ... The 1990s film Pretty Woman carries the Pygmalion themes into a different era with its own values nad behaviours. ... They both have free fighting spirits, high ambitions, determination and a strong sense of morality. Eliza wants to make something of herself and has ambitions to work in a flower shop. ...

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Reputation, which is closely linked to ambition, has been the cause of time and time again for the downfall of not only individuals, but of civilization. ... Hiding his affair to save his own status, he selfishly, if reluctantly worsens the situation to the point of no return. ... Abigail, who's own reputation is clearly questionable before the play, reflects very directly on Parris, and he recognizes this as a threat. ...

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They are socialized to hold high aspirations, yet they are relatively blocked off from the conventional educational and occupational opportunities needed to realize those ambitions. ... Certainly hard work and ambition, in school and then in the economic marketplace, are the culturally approved means of success, but there is also an element of admiration for the robber baron and the rogue who breaks the rules about appropriate means but achieves success goals by deviant means (Merton 217). ...

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People usually always marry within their own caste. ... Their way of life or religious beliefs may prevent them form obtaining more or having the ambition to try for more. ... Property is what a person owns and income is how much money is received. ... In the United States, the capitalist class is only one percent of the population but owns ninety percent of the wealth. ... People tend to marry within their own class either by choice or just simply the fact that those are the only ones they come into contact with. ...

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" These poems are both about the poorer classes, but aimed at the upper ones, aristocracy in Gray's case, "Let not ambition mock their useful toil.Nor Grandeur.... This is a deliberate difference that Harrison has employed to show how the time of Gray's poem is both very different from his own, but not completely, as "Slab" is just another word for coffin, much like "Narrow cell.... This emphasises the fact that many working people had no aspirations or method of exceeding their social limits, and instead of fighting for their rights, they just accepted their...

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The interplay between fatality, technology, and capitalism is an essential reason an individual becomes willing to die for their own country. ... The Creoles formed their own communities due to barriers frustrating their ambitions to advance in the social hierarchy of their own country. ...

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Consequently, Gibbons cleverly emphasises that through family values and social attitudes, individuals can gain knowledge upon how distant larger families struggle to convey sanction and responsibility for their own, unless for their own social gain. ... Although only young, Ellen is far from naive and Gibbons cleverly portrays her to be an independent girl who can see anyone's undisclosed ambitions whether it be for power or wealth, "Aunt Nadine was only laughing at the smiley man because he looked nice and talked proper like". ...

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Preparations for the Moka often begin years ahead of the actual celebration and the planning phase has its own round of gifts and political maneuvering. ... Where once you would find family and close friends you may now observe business colleagues, employers, and members of society that may help your own social/political status. ... Each family member does something different, you have to; we want the family to enjoy and remember their Christmas at our house more than somewhere else The family has it's own traditions - you never know what you will be eating when it's dinner at Lloyd...

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(Medearis 2004) They, "self made man", will likely to violate the law because of their ambition and will to succeed. ... More so than anything, the revolution in France can strip off its own citizens of custom, tradition, religion and everything that he/she has learned and has been accustomed with. ...

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This newfound ambition changed the way her character would interact with Heathcliff. Catherine is famously quoted saying, "Nelly, I am Heathcliff – he's always, always in my mind – not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself – but as my own being" (82), this quote shows the deep and profound love that Catherine has for Heathcliff. ...

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As the townspeople were able to see Miss Emily with needs like their own, they were able to sympathize with her. Because of the young waiter's ignorance and selfish ambitions, he was never able to empathize with the old deaf man. ...

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He studies But even though he realizes his ambitions may be futile, the university remains an obsession with him. ... At two places in the novel, he is compared to Samson (Part I, Chapter 7 and Part VI, Chapter 7), defeated by his own innocence and a woman's cunning. ...

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Thus, clearly asserting her newly awakening independence over her own life, as well as rebuking Leonce for trying to subjugate her to his will as the patriarch and as an authority ruling over her. ... The changes in Edna, as a result of her awakening on Grand Isle, became apparent; she stopped carrying out traditional wifely/motherly duties, she stopped attending or holding social obligations, and began to become more and more absorbed by her artistic ambitions and desires. ... For Edna, the choice to move out of Leonce's house and into her own is a crucial act which the reader is l...

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The U.S. system has evolved, and while having its own shortcomings, has adopted some of Marx's principles and integrated them into their society. ... With their growing economic powers, this class also began to gain political power, destroying the remainder of the old feudal society seeking to restrict their ambition. ... This class, known as the proletariat, "wage-laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live." ...

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Feuerbach said that by man creating God in his own image, he had "alienated himself from himself." ... Engels came from a rich German business family that lived in Manchester and they owned a textile business. ... Engels functioned more as a critic and collaboratator than as one developing his own theories. ... In a society that is regulated, social controls set limits on individuals so that their ambitions and desires can only come to a certain point. When these social regulations break down, the influence of society on individuals isn't effective and individuals are left to their o...

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