teenage mother. As a young black teenage mother‚ I have learned to grow up quick. The things that I have learned the fastest were to nurture‚ care‚ and to protect my son‚ Jaylen. These were the three basic instincts that I have had since the day I first saw him. As far as I am concerned these instincts will not go away until my soul is resting. Nurturing my son is very important. To me‚ nurturing is more than just feeding him. Nurturing is also educating him and training him to be all that he can be
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Out of the three monsters Beowulf fights‚ the dragon threatens Beowulf the most. The aged Beowulf and his troop are posed with great danger. Their lives are put on the line because they can be easily and swiftly taken by the beast. The troop’s instincts to survive are triggered‚ and “no help or backing was to be had then” (175; 2596-2598); reinforcing this definition of a monster. Wiglaf goes against his natural tendencies and stands up for his lord; showing bravery to protect his people with Beowulf
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environmental protection consciousness‚ many people think that to put animals into small cages will change their living instincts‚ and therefore break the ecological balance. Viewed from the basic relations between animals and human beings‚ animals should have the equal freedom with human beings. They are all forms of life. Animals have their own living instinct‚ and it is this instinct that forms the biological chain of the Earth. This relation is called Ecological Balance academically. For example
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For example‚ “And not only did he learn by experience‚ but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. (...) They came to him without effort or discovery‚ as if they had always been his.” (page 48). This shows the theme of atavism because Buck discovers traits that he never knew he had‚ which were his ancestors‚ the wolves‚ traits. He becomes less domesticated and gains his ancestors instincts as he experiences the cruelty of man and the freedom of the wild
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The central concern of Lord of the Flies by William Golding is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: good vs. evil. Throughout the novel‚ Golding associates the instinct of civilization with good and the instinct of savagery with evil. The conflict between the two instincts is the driving force of the novel‚ explored through the end of the young English boy’s civilized‚ moral‚ and disciplined behavior as they adapt themselves to a wild‚ brutal‚ and barbaric life on the
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that man would not be capable of predicting and avoiding‚ thus‚ leading to his defeat‚ which is ultimately death. It presents nature as indifferent‚ making use of environmental and social illustrations. It also juxtaposes man’s reason and his animal instinct and contrasting them. In addition‚ it makes use of the two kinds of tensions (internal and external) to further illustrate naturalism. A common setting is apparent in Naturalistic pieces. Generally‚ it is of places of urban decay as in slums and
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Lamarckism An idea that knowledge acquired throughout an organism’s life can be passed on to its offspring. While this hypothesis had well been established before the time of Hormic Psychology‚ by Jean de Lamarck in the 1840s‚ it was William McDougall that had set out to put a purposive twist on the hypothesis by conducting his own experiments. In order to test this theory out‚ the founder of Hormic Psychology‚ William McDougall‚ studied laboratory-bred white rats and their performance abilities
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Survival; the sole instinct that drives humanity at its most base core. The sole instinct of survival has shaped us as a civilization from the dawn of time. However‚ what happens when this tremendous instinct is challenged by insurmountable odds? Thus is the question posed by author Cormac McCarthy in his novel‚ The Road: a tale of a man and his child‚ struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Throughout the novel‚ the Man‚ the primary protagonist‚ is forced to make ever more morally questionable
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"The Most Dangerous Game"‚ by Richard Cornell was a story which Mr.Cornell used 8 aspects of fiction to show his point of view that one who has intellect can overcome one who has intelligence or instinct. The character’s used in the story gave the author a way to make his point of view come clear to his audience. The story uses sequence of events. The plot is how the story goes about. The setting is the surroundings of the story‚ or where it takes place. The suspense is the temporary holding
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base. Each understood the disfunctions in society as being caused by some aspect of human greed or other similar instinct. They did however‚ disagree on what the vehicle for these instincts’ corrupting influences are. Freud claimed that tension caused by the stuggle to repress anti-social instincts eventually was released and caused the social evils he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions and Id that Freud saw‚ Marx simply credited man’s greed and the subsequent oppression
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