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    Literary naturalism was a movement that began in the late 1800s to the mid-1900s that used detailed realism to show the readers that the human character is shaped by many things that are outside of human control. This movement tried to depict everyday reality where the characters would receive symbolic, idealistic, or supernatural treatment. Literary realism was a prominent movement in the mid-1800s in Europe, and naturalism was derived from this movement; the writers were influenced largely by Darwin’s

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    My high school put on the yearly play and this year it was Beauty and the Beast, it was the original storyline we have always known, but it was put on by our choir, drama department, and the band. It started off by introducing the main character Belle, whose name means Beauty. It told us that Belle is not like all the other girls in her town who are all in love with this guy named Gaston, Belle just wants to read and not bother with Gaston. Gaston likes the fact that Belle does not find him attractive

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    Roger goes to his friend’s wedding where he is introduced to over 50 people. Roger’s goal at this wedding is to meet new people, and remember as many names as he can. In order for him to get their names into long-term memory, he first needs to get them past sensory, and short term memory. For him to be able to do this, he needs to come up with some strategies to remember these names. He will learn when it is necessary for him to rehearse the names over in his head, group some of them together, or

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    We all wish we could do better on our tests and retain our knowledge years after taking the class. This wish can come true with the information in the article The Power of Successive Relearning: Improving Performance on Course Exams and Long-Term Retention. This passage talks about the importance of practice tests and spaced study. The combination of both of these techniques is called successive relearning. Successive relearning for use in college will build a stronger long-term memory of the material

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    After the First and Second World War the WCC felt they were responsible to bring back the social ethics and world politics back to a Christian point of view. Oldham and Niebuhr both lead the charge to help create a world in which based its values and beliefs off a Christian perspective. The ecumenical movement moved away from talking about a “Christian civilization” and a developing a Christian political party, but the felt responsible to bring back the mass society to realize they are the sons of

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    the Civil War. With the departure from romanticism came the journey into the realm of realism. If Romanticism can be described as searching past the obvious in search of the ideal, then Realism is diving into the obvious to explore the ugliness, misery, and hopefully the truth of the world. In general, Literary Realism attempts to depict life as it is, with joys and sorrows, ups and downs. However, American Realism tends to focus more on the darker side of life, for not only had the nation just undergone

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    optimism and does not account for the determinative effect of the liberal world order. Offensive and defensive realism are strands of neo-realism, distinguished from classical realism by its focus on the international system and structures. Anarchy is the scope condition of realism under which states will pursue their own interests with the ultimate goal of maintaining security. In offensive realism states are “power-maximisers”. Increases in power, relative to other states, will correspondingly increase

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    Socialist Realism, the cherished genre of the Stalin era which brought random bits of musical joy to everyday Soviet life. During this period, only a select few films would get the pass for creation. This created a limited but precise pool of films that depict the ideals of the time. For a film to be considered of the Socialist Realist genre, a few key points should be displayed throughout the film. First, the characters must carry the philosophy of viewing their past and Russia’s past not just from

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    Legal Formalism today 1 Introduction The legal-formalist belief in the capacity of legal rules to determine the outcomes to legal disputes without having recourse to the judge’s political beliefs or sense of fairness has been severely criticised by, amongst others, legal realists and critical legal studies scholars. This assignment will firstly address what legal formalism entails, following which the criticisms of legal formalism will be discussed and lastly whether legal formalism can impede

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    Defend ethical noncognitivism against the objections raised in class. The question of morality has been circulating through the minds of men since our development of a conscious; we all have claims about what we believe is morally wrong or right. In an attempt to define morality and its limitations, philosophers have come up with a concept known as “Ethical Noncognitivism.” Proponents of ethical noncognitivism put forth the idea that ethical sentences to do not express propositions, and therefore

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