Both Buddhists monks and women perform suicide or self-immolation with the purpose to protect and preserve important ethical values in the social and cultural context. The use of suicide as an agency to preserve the female virtue of chastity is the foremost prerogatives of women. Fong sites that there was an increased incidence of the practice of suicide with the spread of education among women in the Ming and Qing dynasty‚ primarily due to the commonality for women to be exposed to the cultural
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Self-Concept and Lifestyle Self-Concept Self-concept is defined as the totality of the individual’s thoughts and feelings having reference to himself or herself as an object. The self-concept can be divided into four basic parts‚ actual versus ideal‚ and private versus social. Interdependent/Independent Self-Concepts The independent self-concept emphasizes personal goals‚ characteristics‚ achievements‚ and desires. The interdependent self-concept emphasizes family‚ cultural‚ professional
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101 MJAL 5:2 Summer 2013 ISSN 0974-8741 The Influences of Concept Mapping Strategy on Reading Comprehension of those Students Challenging in Studying Invalid Books at some High Schools The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of drawing concept maps on reinforcing reading comprehension of students at some high schools. Teachers encourage students to draw formatted forms of main and sub main concept maps for each reading passage. Students are encouraged to connect these
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transport spices made The kingdoms of Europe treasured it more than gold itself. They used it for food‚ medicine‚ preservation‚ burials‚ and even perfumes. This love for spices is was lead to one of the biggest historic events in the European world‚ The age of Exploration. A journey
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Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 6‚ No. 3‚ 2009 The Influence of a Family on Ethical Behaviour of a Family Enterprise Mojca Duh‚ Jernej Belak Faculty of Economics and Business Maribor Razlagova 14‚ 2000 Maribor‚ Slovenia Phone: ++ 386 2 22 90 000; Fax: ++ 386 2 25 10 461 E-mail: mojca.duh@uni-mb.si‚ jernej.belak@uni-mb.si Abstract: Family enterprises are defined as a special type of enterprises. The involvement of a family in the enterprise is what makes these enterprises unique.
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What does your critical analysis of the website reveal to you about Cindy Jackson’s sense of her social self‚ her self-concept‚ her self-esteem and her self-presentation? Based on what I have seen from the website‚ I am under the impression that Cindy Jackson had a very low self-esteem as she was growing up. It appears that she felt unattractive and when was at the age of six‚ dreamt of being like a Barbie doll and attaining Barbie’s figure and attractiveness. At some point in her childhood‚ a
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The three basics are food‚ sleep and exercise‚ though the balance depends on age. As we get older we tend to need less of all three. Metabolism slows with age‚ so we feel less hungry; with age we become less active and therefore need less sleep However‚ all three basics are required at any age if we are to remain relatively young and healthy throughout our allotted span. For the purpose of this essay‚ let us assume that you are a young man or woman of about eighteen years. You have an interest
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This essay will explore how the newly important concept of the individual in literature of the Romantic period influenced the genre‚ and in particular how this was a response to the rationalization of nature and neglect of the individual upheld by the Enlightenment Movement. In order to demonstrate this‚ a close analysis of some poetic works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ William Wordsworth and William Blake will be examined. The Romantic period placed great importance on creativity‚ imagination
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Social Class Influence on the Individual “Poor as a church mouse” vs. “born with a silver spoon in your mouth” are contrasting themes in this book of hardships and life trials. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ the main character Pip interacts with characters of various social groups. These groups directly or indirectly‚ help Pip understand his own opportunities and purpose in life. From these interactions‚ it becomes clear that social class influences how people interact and view one another
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1. The Concept of Motivation Each concept or idea has its own history determined by the general evolution of human thought. For many years‚ the understanding of the term and the research on motivation were dominated by the so-called drive reduction theories. Psychologists identified a large number of human needs (both biological and psychological ones)‚ all of them causing inner tensions‚ which had to be released in one way or another. In 1964‚ Atkinson (quoted in Williams and Burden‚ 1997: 113)
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