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    The Business of Being Born is a film about exploring the many options women have for maternity care in America. Actress Ricki Lake‚ reached out to fellow filmmaker‚ Abby Epstein‚ to help her uncover and film the different options that a mother has when it comes to choosing how she will deliver her child. The film is focused in New York City and on several couples who have chosen to give birth in an environment outside of the hospital. Each couple was followed through out their pregnancy and during

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    Monique Wittig’s works‚ The Lesbian Body (1975) and “One is Not Born a Woman” (1980)‚ might seem similar to Cixous’s‚ in that she engages in a political project designed to create a non-phallogocentric discourse‚ but she turns to “lesbianization” rather than bisexuality. She posits an opposing model to the heterosexual mode of language that transcends the categories of sex and gender‚ and she calls it the “lesbianization of language”. She claims that‚ saying‚ “lesbian is the only concept I know of

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    Natural Born Killer In the gothic novel Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ Dr. Frankenstein creates life from discarded human body parts. After abandoning the monster because of its ugliness‚ it goes on a murderous rampage. Dr. Frankenstein abandons the monster justly because he does not owe it because he created it‚ and his mental state is poor. Frankenstein does not owe the monster solely because he made it. The monster is not his property and can act on its own. When a carpenter builds a table and

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    BABY BORN TALKING-DESCRIBES HEAVEN This excerpt is taken from the publication “ The Language Instinct” (1994)‚ written by Steven Pinker‚ director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. It is said in the text that all infants come into the world with linguistic abilities. It is known due to the ingenious experimental technique in which a baby is presented with one signal over and over to the point of boredom‚ and then the signal changes. If the baby perks up‚ he or she can tell

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    have  own  home  country  and  is  settled  down  in  another  country‚  who  is  dependent  on  the  government  for  water‚  food‚  shelter‚  and  education‚  is  known  as  a  Refugee.  Nepal   has  lots  of  these  kinds  of  Refugee  camps. I was born in camp‚ and while there‚ I  had a lot of struggles just to survive.  My  parents  are  from  Bhutan.  One  day  the Bhutanese government exiled about more than  one  hundred  thousand  citizens‚  which  included  my  parents‚  from  their  own 

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    most terrifying and longest day of my life. With me being over due I was beyond ready to have my son. After two weeks of practically begging my doctor‚ he agreed to induce me. My baby was measuring big and my doctor was concerned that with my small frame‚ I would have a hard time delivering naturally. We discussed my options‚ and he felt it would be best if I went into labor and attempted to deliver my baby naturally. I was fine with that. I had always thought of a cesarean as a possibility‚

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    reward induces a person to act. Incentives play an integral role in the decision making process of people (Principles of Economics‚ 4e‚ N. Gregory Mankiw). The decision I will discuss is buying 2 new cars for our family. My first purchase of a new car was a small Lexus IS300. I have been an avid fan of the brand not only because of the quality of

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    Are Serial Killers Born or Made? The term serial killer‚ as defined by Robert Ressler (1974)‚ refers to a person who commits a series of murders‚ often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic and predictable behaviour pattern. Commonly used terms like sociopath and psychopath are no longer used in a clinical setting. Instead‚ these pathologies fall under a condition called anti-social personality disorder. A sociopath is traditionally defined as a person with a personality

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    The phrase‚ ’Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains’ was written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau wrote the famed words in his most important published work‚ ’A Social Contract.’ This work is one of the most important in Western political philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ in his dramatic opening lines to his immensely powerful treatise "The Social Contract‚" wrote that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the pernicious influence of human society and institutions. He preached

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    The age-old question continues to raise its ugly head: Are leaders born to lead‚ or are they made? Does Leadership DNA exist? We often point to one person or the other and say‚ “Now‚ he’s a leader‚” without giving a lot of thought to how this person became a leader in the first place. Sometimes it is easy to simply conclude that some of us have the leadership gene and some of us do not. Those who do get to lead‚ while those who do not are forever assigned to the sidelines while leaders have all

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