"Unicorn in the Garden" by James Thurber is a classic example of the existentialist philosophy of choice and subjectivity‚ as shown by the characterization of the man‚ his wife‚ the police and the psychiatrist. As the story opens we find a man sitting at home eating breakfast with his wife upstairs asleep. The man‚ who chooses to glory in his existence by rising and eating‚ is blessed with the spectacle of a unicorn in his garden. The man is happy. The unicorn eats his roses. The wife has chosen
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Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye"‚ is a very important novel in literature‚ because of the many boundaries that were crosses and the painful‚ serious topics that were brought into light‚ including racism‚ gender issues‚ Black female Subjectivity‚ and child abuse of many forms. This set of annotated bibliographies are scholarly works of literature that centre around the hot topic of racism in the novel‚ "The Bluest Eye"‚ and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women‚ due to white
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The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros emerges as a piece of literary mastery demonstrated through the multilevel narration and celebration of subjective representation. The author utilizes the unusual practice of thorough weaving of the tapestry containing the main character’s opinions and cognitive processes that exist within the matrix of three levels of narration. Furthermore‚ the story world level‚ the level of narration and authorial level appear to execute distinctive functions
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Human Freedom Freedom in mind‚ freedom in nature‚ and freedom in subjectivity of individual are three kinds of freedoms. However‚ freedom should be expressed within the limits of reason and morality. Having freedom equals having the power to think‚ to speak‚ and to act without externally imposed restrains. As a matter of fact‚ finding freedom in order to live free is the common idea in Plato with "The Allegory of the Cave"; Henry David Thoreau with " Where I lived and What I lived for"; and Jean
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IF THERE’S ONE thing I learned in graduate school‚ it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“They fuck you up‚ your mum and dad‚ / They may not mean to‚ but they do.”) At the time‚ I was a new mom with an infant son‚ and I’d decided to go back to school for a degree in clinical psychology. With baby on the brain and term papers to write‚ I couldn’t ignore the barrage of research showing how easy it is to screw up your kids. Of course‚ everyone knows that growing up with “Mommy Dearest” produces
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Like all academic fields‚ there is much room for debate in the discipline of history. This is attributed to the analysis and interpretation that is involved when drawing conclusions‚ and both of which are affected by an individual’s subjectivity. However‚ Prior to a certain point‚ there was little room for interpretation or disagreement in history‚ as it was simply considered a retelling of facts. However‚ there eventually came the realisation that ‘facts’ are always recounted from a perspective
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[pic]What Is Character? How Is It Formed? Character is who we really are. It’s what we do when no one is looking. It’ s the accumulation of thoughts‚ values‚ words and actions. These become the habits that comprise our character. That character determines our destiny. A person of character thinks right and does right according to core universal values that define the qualities of a good person: trustworthiness‚ respect‚ responsibility‚ fairness‚ caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER
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Inter professionalism and trans- professionalism: Towards a more integrated approach to Health and Social Care and Education In recent decades science and the practices derived from it has become much more collaborative and interdisciplinary. The Emerging trends that include merged disciplines such as functional medicine‚ psycho immunology‚ nursing anthropology and behavioural neuroscience among others are suggesting the need for an integrative and inter professional approach to meet the challenges
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The Subjectivity of Happiness In the article “The subjectivity of happiness: on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ’Flow” by Chase Nordengren we learn that in order to be truly happy one must change themselves and not the environment. In addition to changing the way we think‚ our habits and our actions individuals have to take into consideration the idea of flow activities. Csikszentmihalyi’s states‚ happy individuals are one with the world‚ engaging in activities that match a high level of difficulty with
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of “subjectivity” in postmodern theatre (6). She points out that “the subject was no longer an essence” and postmodern attempts to de-substantiate character on stage (3). Fuchs explains that “the burden of signification” and the act of questioning character might still fail to de-centralize subject because modernists tended to deal with “a humanistic problem” (35). What Fuchs illustrates throughout her book is to tell us that postmodern “character is dead” (176). The matter of subjectivity is constantly
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