... and fairy to fall in love, and plays pranks on both, as well; no other character in the play interacts with both planes in such an active manner, causing action in both realms. On another level, he serves as a link between the fictional realm (the illusion that the theater creates,) and ... Perhaps this suggests a similar past for Puck - that he is, in fact, a mortal raised by fairies - which would explain his privileged status as a being active in both worlds. In addition to the little Indian boy character, Puck has several parallels with the character of Bottom. Bottom, like the boy, is...

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... passive euthanasia. In passive euthanasia, by withholding intravenous feedings, medications, surgery, a pacemaker, or a respirator, the doctor can let the patient die of the underlying disease. Active euthanasia, on the other hand, refers to someone's taking active steps to give a dying person, on his or her request, a lethal dosage of drugs in order to hasten death. We can see through history that the ... and the Romans believed in the importance of a death with dignity, which they often achieved by using poisons. In the second and third centuries AD, the Christian spirit opposed the a...

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... maximized, personal and/or public. Rather, preference satisfaction is good just to the extent that it is a feature of a good human life. And a good human life is a life which gives active expression to an agent's virtues. Following Gary Watson's suggestion,(4) we may say that what sets a virtue ethic apart from other types of theory is that it (1) assigns explanatory priority to ... a broader sense, to refer to any tendency to feel, think, or act that develops from or is influenced by training or habituation. For Dewey, virtues are products of learning and active development, thus they ...

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... , the operatic Titania stands her ground. Clearly she does not long for Oberon's love and she acts out of the conviction that she is just. The fashion for this more active and self-conscious Titania was set by Judi Dench in Peter Hall's production of 1962. "Traditionally Titania's were expected to look pretty and regal in a fairy like way, and ... , 123). Dench, however, was described by The New Statesman as "frisking and swooping as a Persian kitten turned maenad" (Griffiths, 124). The operatic Titania may not be as physically active as Dench was, but she possesses the same autonomous po...

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... to avoid deism by asserting that God has a continuing role in sustaining the natural order. But I suggest that it does not fully represent the biblical idea that God has a more active and responsive role in nature and history. Moreover, if all events are predestined in the divine plan, then chance and human freedom are ultimately illusory, though they seem real to ... according to their kinds. . . . Be fruitful and multiply." The authors of Genesis did not of course have any idea of evolutionary history, but they did assign to the creatures an active role in the creative process. Greger...

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... pleasure. In this instance, Kiekegaard upholds an ethical and religious scheme in determining the forms of suffering that attend to all human life. Earthly suffering which he connotes as the active human suffering we know, cannot be neglected and so thus be a weighted arrangement for the conception of ethico-religious advancement. It is closely associated to freedom, as Kierkegaard saying; " a person ... present. Given only reason, that they are however either actively or passive in attendance, belingers the notion that one of them should dominate the other. But yet, in conditions of ac...

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... technology, this catasophy would have been unheard of. Triumph over disease on a worldwide scale did not come until 20th century with the introduction of antibiotics and DDT. DDT is a very active, broad-spectrum pesticide, particularly effective against beetles, moths and butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes, it controls insect-vectored human diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, river blindness, elephantiasis, epidemic and murine ... technology, this catasophy would have been unheard of. Triumph over disease on a worldwide scale did not come until 20th century with the introduction of ...

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... "a frequent habit of characterization by style. The emphasis in the portrayals of his three principles is decidedly on the words they write; those words are expressions of the workings of active, alert minds and highly charged feelings."" We see the grievances of the cranky but benevolent Matthew Bramble, the musings of the smug but loving Jery Melford, and the romantic despair ... in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment or support."" The city becomes inseparable from the people who inhabit it; the public takes on animate life and becomes a hideous active presence in ...

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... it. The conch provided initial order as it was what called all of the boys to their first assembly and from there on symbolizes right of speech. The presence and active use of the conch is what made the island embody a democratic government style, but as its influence fades, so does all law and order. As time passes the boys' reaction ... ...

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... in? Obviously, it will change, and become the story of a confinement, in a bed, in a room, in an institution. Or it may become the story of a a sedentary person undertaking an extremely active life of travel in a quest for a cure. And what happens to the idea of time in the narrative? It may be that the character finds there is suddenly "not much ... ...

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... of circumstances, to choose one's own way."" This freedom of will, according to Frankl, is what gives meaning and purpose to life. He enumerates three kinds of meaningful lives: the active life, which affords the opportunity to realize values in creative work; the passive life of enjoyment, which allows the experience of beauty, art and nature; and the life of moral ... ...

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... inferior, and there is no black person who does not know that and resent it. Given the persistent record, the same could be said for the often subterranean but ever active belief of men that women are inferior and that their disempowerment is the law of nature. Women have noticed this and felt the stigmatizing pain. The result is called feminism ... ...

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... , and both believed that a market economy provided men with the chance to act morally. Opposition to such views was obvious in Rousseau's idea of the "general will."" In accepting an active and intrusive state, Rousseau's thought, Liggio notes, "became a virulent source for the creation of the modern bureaucratic state,"" the emergence of which was supported by both Jacobin thought and ideas ... ...

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... nature, and others do not. Some hold that spiritual change, e.g., repentance, is possible during the interim period, and others do not. Some think the soul rests or sleeps, i.e., is not active or conscious, during the i nterim period, and others do not. It is not part of my purpose in this paper to express an opinion on either of the first two ... ...

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... the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease. A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or passive, euthanasia. Positive euthanasia is the deliberate ending of life, an action taken to cause death in a person. Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life ... ...

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... become a lyre Shelley is asking the wind to channel it's inspiration through his 'strings' as he is ready to be inspired. The passivity of the lyre is juxtaposed with the active trumpet that requires the wind to blow through it also but the effect is very different. The trumpet signals action and to this effect Shelley was most likely referring to ... ...

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... someone's 'consciousness' is itself morally and ethically questionable. It would also be hard to know if the 'technique' worked. A person can look and behave like a mindless vegetable but have a very active mind as is witnessed by the paralyzed French writer, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who dictated a 130-page novel by moving an eyelid. Movies and futuristic novels have raised the concern of ... ...

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... development of ever changing reality and analyzing social relationships, the realist writers produced an authentic picture of contemporary personal and social life, since the underlying principle or the realist method, active cognition, brought important new achievements. The realists were able to portray the essential conflicts of their age which conditioned the inner world of their heroes, their way of thinking and ... ...

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... was responsible for carrying these remains away from death sites to other specific locations. The problem remains who that bone collector was. Thing bring us to the third possibility of active carnivores. Some carnivores bring back parts of an animal back to their den and thus produce sizable accumulations. Potts says that it is possible for carnivores to be responsible for ... ...

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