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    butchered sheep (209)) 21. Daru is a European who just doesn’t want to get involved. 22. He sees Algeria as the only place he belongs (2575) 23. He is fully aware that his presence is despised by the locals 24. Daru is also faced with an existential dilemma because he has been directed to deliver the Arab to the French authorities‚ and he does not want to

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    never felt it but he knew it was all nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada…” (qtd. in Daley 225). The apparent dark theme of the story uses “a clean‚ well-lighted place‚” which is a café‚ as a metaphor for temporary comfort to people who experience existential depression. The nothingness they feel engulfs them in a dark place‚ and the only way to suppress that sadness is to find a “clean‚ well-lighted place.” Looking at the story as a whole‚ it might also mean that the two depressed characters are only

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    HPLC The performance of the fabricated electrochemical biosensor using PEDOT-rGO-LAC was compared with that of HPLC. Quantification of dopamine present in human urine extract was done by addition of three different concentrations of dopamine using the developed biosensor. The quantification and percentage of recovery were determined and the results are presented in table 4.3.2. HPLC was performed for the determination of dopamine in the same human urine

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    Outline Descartes’ Ontological Argument and explain the key objections that may be used against it. Descartes took the Ontological Argument as presented by Anselm and developed it in a different form. Descartes saw the argument in terms of necessary existence. For Descartes‚ the idea of God necessarily entails his existence. He established that our thoughts are evidence of our own existence (‘I think therefore I am’)‚ and so wanted to see what else he could prove exists. He used the example of a

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    another book‚ but to get two plays produced in the occupied capital. In 1943‚ Charles Dullin produced Sartre’s first play‚ Les Mouches or The Flies‚ at the Théâtre de la Cité. In The Flies‚ Sartre uses the classic Oresteian myth as a vehicle for his existential philosophy. The play revolves around the return of Orestes to his homeland‚ Argos‚ several years after the murder of his father at the hands of his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegistheus. Rejecting the sense of guilt which the murderers

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    As described by Luquis (2014) the PEN-3 model‚ contributes to health promotion within ethnic and minority communities by including the cultural aspects of the community in the health education plan. Originally created to address the disease prevention of HIV/AIDS in Africa‚ the PEN-3 program consists of three domains or parts‚ each with a cultural approach (Luquis‚ 2014). The Pen-3 model incorporates the practices and beliefs of the community into the plan and focuses on the positive and unique qualities

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    (Cognitional Structure); 3. “ Reflection is one of the life’s ways of rising from one level of being to another” - Gabriel Marcel (Primary and Secondary Reflection: The Existential Fulcrum); 4. “Each symbol gives rise to comprehension by means of interpretation.” Paul Ricoeur (The Symbol : Food for Thought); and 5. “We have the existential presence which is a common spiritual bond in virtue of which each is present in the other and participates in the being of another” - Engelbert Van Croonenburg (Man

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    also a confrontation with the meaninglessness of life in general. This philosophy is knows as existential angst and The New Oxford American Dictionary defines it as‚ “philosophy concerned with existence‚ especially human existence as viewed in theories of existentialism”. Shakespeare introduces us to Hamlet‚ a very bright young man who seems to constantly question death and humanity. Hamlet’s existential philosophy consist of ending as nothing more than dust. No matter how important we might become

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    many of Jean-Paul Satre’s ideas on existentialism. Firstly that our existence precedes our essence‚ we are born as a "blank canvas" without purpose. This is in contrast to animals whose essence is purely instinctive. The second main idea is the existential life cycle; from perfection to innocence to awareness to dread to acceptance of our fait accompli‚ inevitable death. In a nutshell the moment we are expelled from the womb‚ is our "most perfect" form‚ "the blankest canvas"‚ thereafter‚ life only

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    "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka uses the distortions of Gregor Samsa’s current state as a vermin‚ his invaded space‚ and the abstract use of time to convey the antagonist’s alienation‚ isolation‚ and conformity causing his inaction as the existential hero. Gregor’s transformation absurdly exaggerates his shape‚ voice‚ and senses to exemplify how his physical mutation into a vermin and inarticulate struggles represent his alienation from society. "When Gregor Samsa woke up‚ [...] he found himself

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