Essays on Behavioral Psychology

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Sex and Sexuality in The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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In The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, the inquisitive Tereza ponders what makes her unique. While staring at herself in a mirror she wonders if changing her physical features can affect who she is on the inside; whether her exterior shell affects her...

Human Sexuality Love Sexual Health

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Anyone Can Be a Monster

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Discussion Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, once said that “Monsters exist, but they are far too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”...

Morality Social Psychology World History

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Rovert Gray's Critique of Society in His Poems

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Introduction Whilst some discoveries allow an individual to further confirm their views on their world and themselves, others may lead to moral questioning or re-evaluation evoked by their newfound perspective. These discoveries, in particular, gain value through their ability to facilitate change within their societies,...

Morality Poetry

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Feminine Imagery on Sexuality

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Aphra Behn, as the first woman to earn her living by being a writer in English, known for her daring and controversial treatment of the subjects of sexuality and desire in her works, plays an important female narrative voice in the literary history. In The...

Book Review Gender Roles Human Sexuality

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Sexual Liberation Achieved in 'Moll Flanders'

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In an age in which promiscuity, free living and women’s liberation were not the catch phrases they have grown to become in this modern era, the title character of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders lives a life of sexual independence that was shunned in the seventeenth...

Human Sexuality Literature Review

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Necessity and Morality in Defoe's Moll Flanders

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Much of the critical debate surrounding Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders centers around whether the author makes good on the promise he makes in the preface that the story will be morally instructive. For instance, Ira Konigsberg writes that “One of the book’s contradictions that...

Book Review Morality Novel

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Impact of Sexual Relation on Class Division

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Strindberg recurrently uses symbolism drawn from nature to great effect throughout his play Miss Julie, accentuating the impact of the act of sexual intercourse on the shifting class divisions between Julie and Jean. The evocative imagery Strindberg uses as the play progresses highlights the protagonists’...

Human Sexuality Literature Review

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Describing a Hero According to Robert Cormier in I Am The Cheese

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“Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.” – Joss Whedon Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Although the...

Adult Novel

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What Can We Learn from Cherry Orchard

2 pages / 944 words

Anton Chekhov’s play “The Cherry Orchard” is labeled a comedy, however, it has a handful of meaningful lessons that can be learned from the characters featured in the play. These character’s debacles and actions act almost as a social commentary for the industrial era in...

Literature Review Morality

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Female Experience and Feminism: Correlation

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Most literary representations of the sexes include implicit and binary differences between women and men. Women are typically written as pure archetypes who strive to find constancy in their relationships. In contrast, men as seen as libertines who seek multiplicity, novelty, and otherwise rakish desires....

Book Review Human Sexuality Woman

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Analysis of Sexuality in "Spring Awakening" by Frank Wedekind

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In the foreword to an early translation of the play ‘Spring Awakening’ by Frank Wedekind, his translator Francis J. Ziegler stated that Wedekind’s thesis for the play was “that it is a fatal error to bring up children, either boys or girls, in ignorance of...

Authority Human Sexuality Literature Review

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Nurture and Nature in "Girls, at Play"

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People will always revert to what is most comfortable, reliant on their natural state. In Celeste Ng’s coming of age short story, “Girls, At Play”, the debate of nurture versus nature lies in the struggles between four girls. The theme of “Girls, At Play” is...

Book Review Nature Versus Nurture Short Story

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The Portrayals of Sexuality in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and a Streetcar Named Desire

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After seeing a play such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or A Streetcar Named Desire, a viewer may be hard pressed to remember that there was once a time in Western culture when the revealing of a woman’s bare foot proved entirely scandalous....

A Streetcar Named Desire Human Sexuality

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Maturity and Independence in "All The Pretty Horses"

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The journey from childhood to maturity is guided primarily by the search for meaning. In All the Pretty Horses, protagonist John Grady Cole leaves home to find the place where he belongs in the world. Throughout the novel, John Grady chased the ideal vision of...

All the Pretty Horses Maturity Novel

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A Debate Over The Use of Contraceptive Methods and Reproductive Technologies by Christians

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A recent increase in secularisation has resulted in a debate emerging about the morality of Christians using contraception and reproductive technologies. Contraceptive methods regarding birth control such as the pill or injection are seen to some within the Christian church as ‘immoral’. Morality refers to...

Christian Worldview Morality Religious Beliefs

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Describe and Critically Evaluate Watson and Rayner’s (1920) Study with Little Albert.

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Introduction Watson and Rayner (1920) investigated classical conditioning, a behaviorist theory of learning. The researchers conditioned fear into little Albert and showed that fear can be learned. This research was ground-breaking as it demonstrated how phobias can be acquired at a young age. Although Albert...

Child Psychology Experiment Human Behavior

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Analysis of The Archetypes Presented in The Handmaid's Tale

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Every piece of literature has already been written; the reason for this is the phenomenon of archetypes. Archetypes are symbols, images, characters, ideas, and themes that are occurring all throughout literature. Carl Joung believed that these archetypes are due to the human unconsciousness. He stated...

Archetype The Handmaid’s Tale

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The Incorporation of Religious Themes in The "Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl"

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Throughout Harriet Jacobs’ powerful and informative autobiography, Christianity is repeatedly mentioned as a direct and indirect influence on the episodes of her life as an enslaved woman. Jacobs depicts religion amongst the enslaved as an assuaging escape from their suffering and exposes the Christianity of...

Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl Literature Review Morality