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Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
Words: 1786 / Pages: 7 .... self allowed for the possibility that he could aid others in doing the same. He was trying to develop a way for one to work on himself, which would let one “invent a way of being that is still improbable”. Foucault did not address himself to a broad audience; rather, he used his project of the are of the self as a model for oppressed minorities who had no voice of their own.
Foucault was fascinated by what one or a group has to suppress and reject to form a positive conception of itself. He believed that our conception of ourselves as subjects depends on controlling or excluding whole classes of people who do not fit our Enlightened category of .....
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Memoirs Of Frank McCourt¡¦s Childhood
Words: 1664 / Pages: 7 .... along with his brothers, Malachy, Michael, and Alphonsus, is raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Since birth, Frank and his brothers endure ¡§poverty, [a] shiftless loquacious alcoholic father, [a] pious dejected mother, pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters and the [despised] English.¡¨ Frank becomes very matured at an early age because he has to take on the responsibilities of his alcoholic father, Malachy, who often drinks his wages or his ¡§dole¡¨ leaving the family penniless and starving at home. Since his father is unable is maintain a regular basic income, they depend on charity from the government welfare system and the chu .....
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Tattoo History
Words: 1793 / Pages: 7 .... America tattooing was frequently associated with religious and magical practices. As tattooing became more popular it landed in England where the first royal family member became tattooed.
It is said that skin ornamentation is as ancient as Man himself. The oldest tattooed body known to date is that of Bronze Age man who died over 5000 years ago. He was found frozen intact in an Italian glazier. During examination he was found to have both arms, legs, and torso, covered with elaborate tattoos representing mythical creatures. Also reported at 15000 BC ice age rock carvings show tattooed figures, and 4200 BC Egyptian mummies wore tattoos.
Th .....
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Where Are The Heros
Words: 984 / Pages: 4 .... where our hero must face trials and overcome great challenges. Finally the hero quest is completed in the return cycle. In this completion stage the hero has his ultimate boon and return, usually a triumphant return.
In evaluating Agamemnon we find an impressive warlord, as Akhilleus states: "…first in rank of all the Akhaians." (Pp. 27 ll. 105.) Agamemnon has left his known world on a quest of honor, to fight for his brother Menelaus, who has had his wife and treasures stolen by a guest. In coming to a place of trials Agamemnon hastily shows us that he is in serious lack of hero qualities. Agamemnon has taken a girl as a war prize, when h .....
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What Makes A Good Doctor
Words: 990 / Pages: 4 .... The significance of this ability is emphasized by the B.M.C dictating that the the “duties” of a doctor are to “....listen to patients and give information to patients in a way they can understand.” The importance of good communication skills is two fold. Firstly, it is necessary for a doctor when trying to make a diagnosis to be able to extract information about the patients' injuries or illness and their clinical history. The importance of this listening ability is closely related to a doctor’s clinical competency and is discussed later.
The second significance of good communication skills is to find out any worri .....
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The Meaning Of Life
Words: 868 / Pages: 4 .... conceive of. This is to say that, if a god like this exists, his goal for life and the universe is not necessarily valid as a meaning of life, the universe, and himself. For instance, the Bible claims that the Christian deity created the universe and placed humans in it that they might be in awe of his power. If this is so, why is worship the correct response? The meaning of the universe as created by God is the entertainment of God, but what is the meaning of the larger system containing God and his creations? We could conceive of an even 'primer' mover, but that simply takes us all the way back into the wall of infinite regression.
When I first r .....
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Incremental VS Entity
Words: 1154 / Pages: 5 .... and he flunks, then it would just be proving to him that he was not intelligent to begin with or he does not have the intelligence that it takes.
An incremental person views errors as learning experiences, which is not bad at all. He believes that errors are where to direct effort. An entity person, on the other hand, believes that errors are bad and that they reveal the limits of one's intelligence. So basically, an entity person would put no effort in something in fear of making an error of some sort.
The degree of involvement in something also differentiates an incremental person and an entity person. Involvement is considered to be how o .....
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Reductive Psychology
Words: 2226 / Pages: 9 .... did it shouting, complaining about the heat, and blaming the Subway Company because of the lack of oxygen that made them feel in such a bad mood.
Those people were healthy. They were responding to their environment in the proper way. They were reacting to (I don't want to use the word) their stimuli in the normal way that any human being would. If they didn’t, they would get home with this anguish in their chests, due (no doubt) to adrenaline and learned behavior patterns. They would, then, shout to their wives, husbands, children, because they needed to exonerate the pain and the anguish. “Even a physically uncomfortable environment .....
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Myth- Aliki, The Gods And Goddesses Of Olympics
Words: 1263 / Pages: 5 .... illustrated the book , used brilliant and vibrant
colors and also portrayed the personality visually by scenes and images that
clearly showed the emotional side of the gods .
This myth contained some violence , sinister and inappropriate behavior
among the gods and cruel and even frightening illustrations that I thought might
be too overwhelming for a young impressionable mind . An example of this would
be when " Cronus married his sister Rhea , and they had many children . But
Cronus was afraid that one of them might overthrow him just as he had overthrown
his father . So as each child was born , he swallowed it ." Although Cronus
eventually "th .....
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Writing A Personal Argument
Words: 1070 / Pages: 4 .... is paper and something to draw and color with. The style of toys nowadays are following the above trend-creation, exploration, and imagination.
Quarks is one of the toys that is invented following by the above logic. The point of this toy is to make things work. For example, designing a vehicle, a helicopter, etc., anything you want and then using the various pieces to bring it off into as most high technology and most fashionable as possible. It allows you to minimize the structure for maximum function. It is an abstract, structured toy. It allows a child to construct, within certain limits, what that child see in his or her mind, and then to attach .....
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