She does not mother Kevin because of a strong love bond between them but out of a model that intensively pervades Western culture. She exposes with her attitude the constructedness of the maternal‚ making vivid the gap between aspiration and practice. Eva’s attempts to play the mother’s role generate an increasing awareness of mothering as an artificial performance‚ and of the child as an abstract concept that the reality often contradicts. Parenting emerges not as a natural ability but as a learned
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Every single person begins in the same way‚ there is a silence‚ there is nothing at all. The child is born as tabula rasa; he has no feelings or opinions in his mind. “First thing he heard was Bobby Dazzler on Channel 7” ‚ voices of the family are no longer important‚ the consumerism and spiritual poverty overwhelm the person from the very beginning. The child is still
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A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein A Marxist reading of the novel shows that this work is an active agent exposing and criticizing society’s oppressive economic and ideological systems. The fear played upon in this work is in actuality a fear of revolution. Many generations experience the horror and terror of this thought evoking novel in an entirely different light. What was once a so called transgression in the 19th century is widely accepted amongst the people of the 21st century. Embedded
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Explain the theoretical significance of the phenomenon known as the Garcia effect. Does this phenomenon have any practical significance for animal or human behavior? The Garcia effect or conditioned taste aversion is an example of classical conditioning of an animal’s thought to link a taste with a symptom brought on by toxic substance causing nausea. It has had great significance in the understanding of human and animal learning. It shows that learning has a biological link. It shows that
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that splitting the human world and the wilderness will result in trouble when he claims‚ “wilderness represents the false hope of an escape from responsibility‚ the illusion that we can somehow wipe clean the slate of our past and return to the tabula rasa that supposedly existed…” (484). To eliminate this illusion Cronon suggest creating a “middle ground” a place that combines both the human world and the wilderness in one (Cronon 490). Cronon’s solution for obtaining this so called “middle ground”
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Monstrous Philosophy The Modern Prometheus‚ Paradise Lost‚ and Victorian Protestant Culture Though separated by over a century‚ Mary Shelley and John Milton were philosophical companions‚ their challenging views considered controversial and heretical in their respective periods. Together they are the most prominent literary voices of the Enlightenment philosophical movement‚ emphasizing the romantic ideals of human goodness‚ compassion and free will in stark contrast to the harsh cynicism of
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Comparing Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies Albert Ellis played a distinctive role in developing cognitive therapy for his clients. His original 5 training was in traditional psychoanalysis but when he found that better overall progress was made when helping clients to change their thinking‚ his focus shifted. He developed a theory that turned into rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) based on the idea that "people contribute to their own psychological problems‚ as well as to specific symptoms
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The NatyaShastra describes nine rasas or NavaRasas that are the basis of all human emotion. It is useful to keep in mind that a rasa encompasses not just the emotion‚ but also the various things that cause that emotion. These two things go hand in hand and are impossible to treat separately. This duality is part of every rasa to varying degrees. Today we try to bring to you a flavour of each of these nine rasas‚ explaining what each one means and presenting it to you through some Indian art form
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are not observable and apparent at birth‚ that emerge later on in life are regarded to be a product of maturation. Whereas‚ Empiricists believe that we gain knowledge and can determine our own abilities and capabilities as the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) which can be filled with knowledge of the world by learning‚ and through our experiences. Empiricism was based on the ideas of eighteenth century British philosophers‚ Locke‚ Hulme and Berkeley. Early theories from Gesell reflect
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The quest for knowledge remains a perplexing problem in the field of philosophy.Even nowadays mankind continue to seek to understand himself and the world around him he is thirst to know were exactly our knowledge comes from.The question of knowledge appears to be a battle between the empirisists who believed that knowledge is acquired through sense experience and the rationalists who believed that knowledge can only be required through reasoning.Although there are a lot of people who abides with
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