Oct 31

And because it followed no simple pattern of composition and provided no set patterns for use or movement, it presented a constantly changing series of images to the inhabitant. These features enlarged its meaning in Goffs mind, for he felt the qualities of changeability and the indefinite partly reflect our own time and merit architectural expression.
Goff said:?We have more and more the feeling that each thing we do, each work of art we do, whatever it is, is not really something that has a beginning or an ending. It is something that is continuing. We are beginning to understand more and more that change is necessary, always.
As one of my students said, “Stop moving and you are dead.” You have to keep changing. Change does not necessarily mean progress, as we often like to think.

Oct 31

” The author goes on to describe what Edna felt during the episode:An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day.”When Edna goes to mass with her friend, Robert Lebrun, we see another instance where she’s not herself: “A feeling of oppression and drowsiness overcame Edna during the service.
Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed before her eyes. Another time she might have made an effort to regain her composure; but her one thought was to quit the stifling atmosphere of the church and reach the open air.” For the rest of the day she lingers at Madame Antoine’s, with no mind of what her husband thinks. He didn’t know that she was going in the first place.
She seems not to worry about what others think of her, except Robert.

Oct 31

The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simplechanged their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have wechanged in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killedpeople for conducting scientific experiments and believed this was againstthe teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is a mirror toour own when we view the past. If a person from the present were to seethe sacrifices and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec Indians, that personwould see it as barbaric in contrast to his own culture. Isn’t it true that whatwe view as barbaric or uncivilized is always in comparison to own. Doesn’tit stand to reason that in a society without families, they would viewmonogamy as uncivilized This society has been shaped by hundreds ofyears and will continue to change in the years to come. Many of the civilized behaviors for the society of Brave New World arevery different from our own. The main concern was to keep everyonehappy. Two efforts to do this were to teach them to be selfish and takesoma.
The reason for taking soma was to induce happiness througheuphoria in much the same way alcohol and marijuana behave. Also whenare people the happiest When they’re pleased, so this brings about the actof being selfish with the thought that you must do what you have to in orderto be happy all the time.

Oct 31

You wouldn’t expect a person who is in favor of rehabilitation to be a believer of the death penalty. And if people say that they are in favor of the death penalty because of deterrence or incapacitation, they usually don’t know the “direct measures or motives” (Warr p.g 96). A study done in 1980 in Seattle shows that 42% of the 339 returned mail surveys chose retribution as their number one or primary goal of punishment. And 66% chose retribution as their first, second or third most important reason of punishment (Warr p.g. 102).
One problem with the study is that there was an under representation of black citizens (2% of respondents were black). If this were to directly relate to the entire population of the United States, the majority of the people would feel that retribution is the main purpose of the death penalty, not deterrence. “Social scientists have drawn a negative conclusion about the deterrent effect of the death penalty based upon two sorts: longitudinal analyses of homicide rates in jurisdictions before and after the abolition and/or reinstatement of capital punishment and comparative analyses of homicide rates for abolitionist and retentionist jurisdictions.
Contrary to the deterrence hypothesis, these studies have typically shown no significant change in homicides that can be attributed to the abolition or reinstatement of capital punishment and homicide rates to be the same or even higher in death penalty jurisdictions” (Bailey p.g.

Oct 30

ROSENTHAL: Well, I think that’s an indication of how common the problem is. We figure that about one in five people have some difficulty with the winter, and how you classify that really depends on how severe it is.
For example, people who simply are a little under the whether or have some difficulty with creativity or productivity, and just don’t enjoy themselves as munch; we say they are suffering from the winter blues. But that group of people which is about six percent of the population; who really feel somewhat disabled, somewhat impaired by the winter would suffer from SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
And how you’ d know that is that there are problems with their bodily functions, they really oversleep, they really can’t get up in the morning, they’ re having real difficulty concentrating to such a degree that their job suffers or they’re so withdrawn that their relationship suffer. Once it’s beginning to impact on function to that degree, then we say you’ve got SAD. GROSS: How does Seasonal Affective Disorder compare to regular depression ROSENTHAL: Well, it is a kind of a depression, but the first clue is its timing. Regular depressions can pop up at any old time, whereas with SAD it’s this very regular occurrence.

Oct 30

Whereas, woman with an internal locus of control generally believe that the appearance of their bodies is within their control. These feelings of control result in a more positive view of their body (Garner, Garfinkel, & Thompson, 1980 Sweeney, & Wagner, 1999). Prolonged semi-starvation produces many symptoms includingirritability, fatigue, and obsession with food. Many males report being unhappy with some aspect of their body.
Still, concern about body weight appears to be a far more common and more important aspect of body dissatisfaction experienced by females than males (Brumberg, 1988). Survey data indicates that about one-half to three-quarters of females who are normal in weight consider themselves to be too heavy, whereas only about one-quarter of males consider themselves to be overweight.
In their survey, Cash, Winstead, and Janda found that 40 percent of underweight women consider themselves to be normal. Furthermore, 44 percent of the female participants chose an ideal body shape that was 20 percent underweight (Stuhldreher & Ryan, 1999). The American female s obsessive quest for the perfect body is both reflected and promoted by advertisements.

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