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    thing that most people have is the natural instinct to sense danger‚ and the need for survival. As you grow up and watch others you will pick up on certain things here and there‚ but for the most part instinct comes from the drive to survive under any circumstances. If you are put in a situation where you become desperate‚ you will do things you would not usually do otherwise. Say you get thrown into a pool and you have no idea how to swim‚ your first instinct will be to scream and fight your hardest

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    Ethos is described as an appeal to ethics‚ its goal is to persuade the reader that an opinion is correct by showing the credibility of a character‚ Its often tied to citing figures of authority. For example‚ if were debating which car is faster car x or car y‚ a good argument for car x would be that it was stated by a skilled Nascar driver to be one of the fastest cars he’s ever driven. Now let’s analyze a passage from The Abolition of Man.“Perhaps I am asking impossibilities. Perhaps‚ in the nature

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    The actions of the boys were not a matter of being good or evil‚ but were actions for survival. A person’s environment does not draw him towards good or evil‚ nor is he or she born with it inside. Humans have instincts that are not affairs of good and evil‚ but of survival. By natural instinct‚ humans will do what is best for them especially for their survival. Animals‚ much like people‚ kill when in need. For instance‚ if they feel they are cornered‚ they would attack. If they need food‚ they will

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    sexual abuse as merely childhood fantasies. III. Levels of Mental Life Freud saw mental functioning as operating on three levels: the unconscious‚ the preconscious‚ and the conscious. A. Unconscious The unconscious consists of drives and instincts that are beyond awareness but that motivate many of our behaviors. Unconscious drives can become conscious only in disguised or distorted form‚ such as dream images‚ slips of the tongue‚ or neurotic symptoms. Unconscious processes originate from

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    Adolescent Essay Sexual minority is a term to describe people that having sexual orientation‚ identity and behavior that is rarely appear in the norm or society or different from majority. Example of sexual minority included gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual‚ and transsexual (LGBT) and definitely the majority will be heterosexual. However‚ the trend is changing as more and more people aware and accepts itself as homosexual. The subtle change in the ratio of the 2 populations had been brought a great reformation

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    between ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’. Therefore the character Ralph is another significant example‚ because he represents the human instinct. ` Ralph is a twelve-year-old English boy and the novel’s protagonist. He is the first character the reader gets to know. He blew the conch shell to ‘call’ the other boys who stranded on the island. That shows his human instinct to get a situation under control or rather to get to know an unknown situation better.   When the boys decided to elect a boy as

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    forests‚ so he subconsciously desires to run to the woods and never leave. This is why the “call of the wild” is a link between an animal and their wild ancestors. Finally‚ the “call of the wild” affected Buck’s behavior because it influenced his instincts. The novel stated‚ “Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control. He was too busy adjusting himself to the new life to feel at ease‚ and not only did he not pick fights‚ but he avoided them whenever possible. A certain

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    settlements and communities. Herein lies the problem Nietzsche discovers‚ the basic instincts of man‚ surrounded by the walls of a new society‚ rendering all the unconscious thoughts that served as a need for survival‚ useless. This new society would require men to think instead of using instincts; the structure of society would demand this reliance of our conscious mind. Nietzsche determines that "all instinct that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward‚ this is what I call the internalization

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    According to Freud‚ our misery comes from civilizations and everyone would be happier if we just give up civilization all together. He states how things provided by civilization that are supposed to improve our lives actually just make it worse. One example is technology. Technology is supposed to be this great improvement to life that has enabled people to do so many different things. However‚ there is an example from the text that talked about how boats were invented to allow people to travel great

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    the advice and ventured in his own. After a while he finally realizes that what the old timer said was right and after he he did it was already too late. The author decided to let the man die because he had the knowledge but didn’t use the instincts that he was provided with ‚ instead he used something that is rather useless. Sometimes it may not always be the one who thinks survive. The mistakes that the man makes in the book always reflects to how just having one accident or

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