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    process of identity management Be able to define self-disclosure Be able to describe the models of self-disclosure: Social Penetration Theory; and‚ Johari Window Be able to explain reciprocity‚ as well as the other benefits of self-disclosure: catharsis‚ self-clarification‚ self-validation‚ building and maintaining relationships. Be able to explain why it is important to assess the appropriateness of self-disclosure Chapter Three Be able to define and describe the steps of the perception process:

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    Catharsis is the audience and the people of Theban empathize with Creon for try to correct his wrongdoings. The last section of the chorus talks about Creon “that‚ seeing the stricken heart/Of pride brought down‚ /we learn when we are old”(162). It took Creon

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    could be argued ‘Othello’ appears to conform to Aristotle’s principles of tragedy‚ of the noble protagonist who undergoes perpetia and endures suffering‚ resulting in his ultimate downfall due to harmatia‚ which he eventually realises‚ providing catharsis for the audience. However‚ upon further study‚ such devices may be interpreted to provide a different perception of the protagonist‚ as more of an atypical victim‚ exposed to the harsh reality of the society he longs to fit into‚ rather than an typical

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    An Analysis of Aristotle’s Poetics A square may be a rectangle‚ but a rectangle may never be a square. This idea is not complex‚ however when it is applies in Aristotle’s Poetics to the Greek Epics and Tragedies‚ it is suddenly not only applicable in an arithmetic context‚ but it gives a relevant and true breakdown of the commonalities and different components within these genres of literature. Within these poetics‚ Aristotle explicates the difference between an Epic and a Tragedy and defines

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    Are humans innately aggressive or do we learn to be aggressive? From time in memorial‚ there has always been conflict. As the world developed so did the scale of these conflicts. This hunger for violence and aggression has been questioned by many psychologists and as a result led to one of the more important questions of nature versus nurture. On the one hand some have argued that aggression is innate and on the other hand‚ it has been argued that aggression is a learned behavior and that our

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    William Wordsworth (1770-1850) completed two main versions of his autobiographical epic poem The Prelude‚ the original version in 1805‚ and a revised version which was published in 1850. The 1805 version is the one usually studied‚ and usually considered the better of the two‚ being more melodic and spontaneous than the more laboured version of 1850. In this essay I shall be discussing the 1805 version‚ with one or two references to differences in the 1850 version. Book Vl‚ entitled‚ ’Cambridge

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    Cited: Derrida‚Jacques.“Structure‚Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”.Theoryisms.Ed.Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay.Delhi:Worldview Publications‚2015.132-153.Print. Hans‚James S. “Derrida and Freeplay.”French Issue: Perspectives in Mimesis 94.4(1979):809-826.JSTOR.Web.09/04/2015.

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    Chapter one Tragedy and Poetry Since its inception in ancient Greece two millennia and a half ago‚ tragedy has never faded out. It is true that there were periods when other forms of entertainment or other types of drama eclipsed tragedy‚ but it has never failed to maintain the interest of both dramatists and philosophers. It is noteworthy that tragedy has often been written in verse; the use of prose as the medium of tragedy is only a recent phenomenon. This

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    Peloponnesian War makes no mention of gods or souls or an afterlife. Instead‚ Pericles emphasizes that those who were killed did so for the sake of Athens and that they would live on in the memories of its citizens. Greek artists were the first to establish mimesis (imitation of nature) as a guiding principle for art‚ even as Greek philosophers debated the intellectual value of this approach. The repeated depiction of the nude human figure in Greek art reflects Greek humanism—a belief that ’Man is the measure

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    Trait view of behaviour. According to this theory‚ we can tell which players and when they will perform aggressive acts. This says that everyone has aggression within them‚ it is just a continual build-up of energy that needs to be released through catharsis‚ for example‚ small lashes out at an opposition to release pressure (Lorenz). However this theory completely disregards an environmental stimulus that we know exists. Social Learning Theory (Bandura) suggests that behaviour is learned from our environment

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