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    Paradox Of Obesity

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    As population rise at a rapid pace‚ this paradox has become global. Hand in hand with the economic recession beginning in 2008‚ “obesity has been on the rise in Europe for about two decades‚ but the pace appears to be picking up in tandem with the economic crisis‚ as job-seekers retreat into bad

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    Paradox Of Horror

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    KATERINA BANTINAKI The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion With its roots in the English gothic novel of the eighteenth century and a body of work that spreads across different media‚ the horror genre has persisted in art for more than a century‚ gaining gradual popularity among audiences. Its success has been particularly pronounced in cinema‚ where horror films like The Exorcist‚ Jaws‚ Alien‚ Silence of the Lambs‚ and numerous others rank among the major box office hits in cinematic

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    Zenos PAradox

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    Excerpt from: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#ParMot 3. The Paradoxes of Motion 3.1 The Dichotomy The first asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. (Aristotle Physics‚ 239b11) This paradox is known as the ‘dichotomy’ because it involves repeated division into two (like the second paradox of plurality). Like the other paradoxes of motion we have it from Aristotle‚ who sought

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    Paradox of Affluence

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    o October 26‚2012 Psy 220 Paradox of Affluence: Are we truly happy? The term "paradox of affluence" explains the disparity that has developed over the last 40 to 50 years in America between material well-being and psychosocial well-being. "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." It also provides extensive statistical evidence that indices of material affluence and of well-being have gone in opposite directions since the 1950s. We measure affluence

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    The American Paradox

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    American Paradox The article Slavery and Freedom: the American Paradox‚ by Edmund S. Morgan‚ was a study of the relationship between liberty and equality to slavery and how the government came to be in Virginia. I believe Morgan’s thesis is that America would not have liberty and equality without the help of slavery. Morgan sustained his thesis in the beginning of his article by citing examples of the founding fathers and other prominent individuals owning slaves. Thomas Jefferson was one of the

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    Paradox Of Gratification

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    Social Media is like a paradox of gratification and feeling like something is being accomplished when it really isn’t. The social media outlet Facebook is used to say “it feels like you’re doing something and you’re not doing anything. It’s the absence of doing something‚ but you

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    Icarus Paradox

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    If measures to guard against the dangers of the Icarus Paradox (Miller‚ 1992) are relatively straightforward‚ then why do so many organisations fall prey to it? The Icarus paradox is a neologism coined by Danny Miller. The term refers to the phenomenon of businesses failing abruptly after a period of apparent success (Miller‚ 1990) (The Icarus Paradox)‚ where this failure is brought about by the very elements that led to their initial success. It alludes to Icarus of Greek mythology‚ who drowned

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    A Postmodern Paradox

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    A Postmodern Paradox Postmodernism‚ a paradox in itself‚ challenges conformity in countless ways. Taking place after World War II‚ this movement is mainly characterized by its rejection of social constructs and its challenges to traditional forms of philosophy‚ literature‚ art‚ and religious authority. Ironically‚ while it defied categorizing‚ it became a category itself. Nevertheless‚ this movement has had a profound impact on countless literary‚ cinematographic‚ art‚ and philosophic works. Two

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    The Nuclear Paradox

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    The Nuclear Paradox By Elizabeth Maybury 60 years and some 23‚000 nuclear warheads later‚ since the bombing of Hiroshima‚ the question that faces the U.S and their allies alike “is less how a nation might array its nuclear forces and more how to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from spinning out of control”. The very nuclear weapons created to deter attack and ultimately bring about peace are also the cause for ambiguity among world nations‚ the hole in which millions of tax payers dollars

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    The Paradox of Community

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    The Paradox of Community "One can see that insiders are caught in the paradox of community: The same cultural vocabulary that undermines community is simultaneously that community’s idiom of self-affirmation" (Greenhouse‚ et al. 175). In Law and Community‚ David M. Engel explores how ordinary people in a small‚ rural‚ Illinois town perceive the law‚ courts‚ litigants‚ and community. By analyzing the legal practices and relations in Sander County‚ it is evident that law and the courts play a

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