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    of fifty … every mark of capacity and kindness.” Jekyll engaged in “philanthropic work” and was “a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion”. Conversely, Hyde is described as “hardly human! something troglodytic”. According to the concept of physiognomy (which was popular at the Victorian epoch), the physical description of Hyde insinuates that he is a criminal, which is indicative of his depravity and warped ethics. Supporting this premise are the two scenes in which Hyde’s bloodlust drives…

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    “Loving is Art, and Art is Love. (...) In love and in art, the only constant is inconstancy (Boal 19).” This project gave me the ability to create without pressures and to cherish in the inconsistencies of art. I was able to see how art is forever changing and reworking. Art like love is fluid, the person you love and the art you create are constantly growing, moving, and developing. Normally when I am the director of a project I try to make sure that everything is constant, unique, and…

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    See Baby Drink Introduction As a parent the most important thing that one can ever wish for is to deliver a healthy baby. However, that is not always the case in some situations a mother’s addiction can affect the development of a once healthy fetus causing short to long term effects. Women today believe that having a glass of wine or binge drinking during pregnancy is okay but it is not, it is wrong and inconsiderate to the fetus. When a mother drinks during pregnancy her judgement becomes…

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    German and he was really enthusiastic in discovering the patterns of the world; therefore, he had been traveling a lot. Similar to Linnaeus, he studied natural resources to benefit the government (Lecture, 9/15/15). In his very important reading “Physiognomy of Plants”, he was applying the idea of how a person’s face reflects his/her own mind on plants. One of his observations was: “the carpet of flowers and of verdure spread over the naked crust of our planet is unequally woven; it is thicker…

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    Leaders try to take all the facts into reason, keeping a long-standing view in their approach, with the wish that any solutions they put in place at the moment will be to the benefit of the group and the people both now and in the future. Other physiognomies that a great leader will demonstrate is; exemplary character, enthusiastic, confidence, functionality, tolerant, goal oriented and committed to excellence. A leader has an exemplary character. It is important that a leader is dependable to…

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    Positivist Theory Positivist theory was created from positive philosophy and the influences of practical science (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Positivists rejected the established philosophy of Enlightenment thinkers (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). When society went through significant changes during the American and French revolutions as well as a middle class that united in strength and the Industrial Revolution is when positive philosophy took its roots (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Saint-Simon was a socialist who…

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    4.1. Blanche Ingram According to Heiniger Blanche can be seen as Jane’s foil, since she embodies the perfect “nineteenth-century Angel – an unrealistic male-created ideal” (24). She satis-fies Coventry Patmore’s expectations in regard to appearance: “Men must be pleased.” And her outstanding beauty, described by Mrs. Fairfax, obviously would make her the dream girl of many men: She is “tall”, has a “long graceful neck” and “noble features” “fine hair” and the “glossiest curls” (Brontë 185) Her…

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    Victoria Dochoghlian Poli Sci 137BW Prof. Uhlaner November 5, 2015 Are the Representatives “Like Us” in the U.S. Congress? “Stand for” representation, means a descriptive or symbolic representative that stands for someone or something. In descriptive representation there is the idea of representing a group of people and governing for them, two very different theories. Representing descriptively means to proportionally and characteristically represent the population they stand for, and to…

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    Genetically modified (GM) foods have the potential to improve human health in the developing world. The genetic modification of food is a bioethics issue, due to the concerns raised when a foods physiognomies are altered to benefit the human race. Despite this, a food’s characteristics can be GM to become a vehicle for vaccines and a higher vitamin content, slowing the spread of diseases and thus improving human health. Furthermore, plants that are GM to be pest-resistant will cause a decrease…

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    instance of flanerie in Poe’s works may be found in his story ‘The Man of the Crowd,” which Benjamin calls Poe’s early contribution to a ‘physiognomics of the crowd’,” says James V. Werner in The Detective Gaze: Edgar A. Poe, the Flaneur, and the Physiognomy of Crime. Poe used a unique grotesque inventiveness in his writings. Such stories include, “The Fall of the House of Usher” in which penetrating gloominess in the atmosphere is accented equally with plot and characterization. “The Pit and…

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