Social Transmission and Culture In 2001‚ Russell and Whitehead published an article claiming that Humpback whales did in fact have a culture. The explanation or definition of culture they used in their study was the following: the for a specie to have culture‚ there must be variation on the behavior of groups within the specie. Behavioral variations could be deduced by observing spatial‚ temporal or social patterns and these variations shouldn’t be able to be explained by individual learning
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things‚ some positive‚ most negative‚ but one trait that comes to mind when someone asks me‚ “What is one adjective to describe you?” I cannot really answer that honestly. “Hi‚ I’m Andrea and I would say that my overarching trait of all others is cynicism. I believe that I am the way that I am from learning how to cope with tragic events that have happened in the past. Sigmund Freud’s ego defenses could clearly back up this idea. I am not cynical because I saw it on some TV show or movie when I
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The Great Gatsby (Novel) Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Purpose To show the author’s conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age Relationship with the Author and the Characters Fitzgerald and Carraway Thoughtful young man from Minnesota Educated at an Ivy League school Moves to NYC after the war Found the new extravagant lifestyle seductive and exciting Fitzgerald and Gatsby Idolizes wealth and luxury Falls in love with a beautiful young woman while at military
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suffering and hardship which causes us to question God. Another major theme is Epicureanism versus Piety. This is essentially saying that we shouldn’t “eat‚ drink‚ and be merry for tomorrow we die”‚ but we also shouldn’t live lives of fatalism and cynicism. We need to find a middle-ground and enjoy life while fearing God. Being a Christian does not disqualify us from an enjoyable
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Raskolnikov’s split personality interrupts his ability to live a normal life. Loves and hates people he is moody‚ melancholy‚ proud‚ and haughty; recently (and perhaps for much longer than I know) he has been morbidly depressed and over-anxious about his health. He is kind and generous. He doesn’t like to display his feelings‚ and would rather seem heartless than talk about them. Sometimes‚ however‚ he is not hypochondriacal at all‚ but simply inhumanly cold and unfeeling. Really‚ it is as if he
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BETWEEN APPEARANCE AND REALITY Bertrand Russell once asked‚ “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?” (Cahn‚ 2012) In his own method‚ he believed this to be false; after all‚ everyone perceives the world differently than the person next to them. By using a table as an example‚ he explains that everything should be questioned‚ even the things that appear to be absolute. In this paper‚ Russell’s theory is compared to those of René Descartes and
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Before we can talk about ethics in criminal justice and the slippery slope‚ we must first define what ethics is. Ethics is‚ “that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct‚ with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions” (Dictionary‚ n.d.). Having defined ethics how does it play out in criminal justice? It goes without saying that every department should have ethics training‚ and it should extend beyond just the field of criminal justice. It applies to
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ordinary and reaching the top. "Americans‚ while occasionally willing to be serfs‚ have always been obstinate about being peasantry."- page 89 Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values‚ evidenced in its overarching cynicism‚ greed‚ and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night resulted ultimately in the corruption of
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is narrated by a 3rd person narrator‚ who is bound to Freya‚ all of Freya’s thoughts are known by the reader. Because of this the readers only get to know Pearl as Freya sees her; a spontaneous‚ dreamy‚ but also determined woman. Despite Freya’s cynicism and her tendency to rationalize everything‚ she admires Pearl’s spontaneity‚ and wishes to be more like her. Pearl is able to do something Freya is not; admitting that she is
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understand the moral lesson the story is trying to teach us. Russell uses words like faith‚ trust‚ true friendship‚ and devoted love. These words are also repeated frequently‚ which allows the reader to catch the hidden meaning in the story. At the end of the story‚ there is a happy ending. The concluding lesson is that the faith and trust the two friends shared led toward a happy ending that influenced the antagonist’s mindset. Russell writes‚ “Thus did the two friends of Syracuse‚ by the faithful
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