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    Hall (1966) describes personal space as the “small protective sphere or bubble that an organism maintains between itself and others” (Hall 1996: p112). In the book ‘The Silent Language’, Hall proposed that while animals use their urine and physical posturing to mark their territory, humans do something similar using our personal space. The proxemics theory suggests that the distance between individuals help to control the amount of sensory information exchanged and thus, helping to control the…

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    It begins with a couple of pedal strokes. Round and Round the wheels turn and your off like a shot. Sounds straightforward? Traveling across rural scenery. I love it. Edinburgh should be called the Happy Trails city once you get away out of the city there are a million of places to run, walk, hike or bike. I go mountain biking every Monday night with the club. For the first 5 minutes my muscles burn, it feels like I am dragging myself through mud and being stewed alive all at the same time. Then…

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    Deindividuation Theory

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    LeBon (1896/1908) claimed that the individual’s behaviour was modified from a civil and rational manner to animalistic behaviour (LeBon, 2001 and Gough & McFadden, 2001). Other psychologists (e.g. Festinger, Pepitone & Newcomb, 1952) developed LeBon’s notions on crowd behaviour to establish the ‘deindividuation’ theory. Zimbardo (1970) expanded the concept by arguing that while being in crowds, people feel anonymous and therefore lack a feeling of responsibility. Subsequently, the individual…

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    Marxism Vs Liberalism

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    The State, indeed, even declaring itself above the differences of class and education, in order to exert its universality, entails the existence of some elements such as the private property that, accordingly, continues to exist. Through the rule of law, the State splits man’s life in two: the citizen, namely the political subject or the citizen…

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    Cleisthenes influence is profound. It was the first time in history that the common people overthrew a government for form a new one, which is known as the Athenian Revolution. Cleisthenes was a forefather of democracy. He helped the Athenians develop a system of government in which all had a say, not only the aristocratic few. Because of the new government founded, an individual such as Themistocles was able to have a powerful say in the Athenian government. Themistocles was not an…

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    The Persian Wars between the Greeks and the Persians of the Achaemenid Empire at the beginning of the fifth century BC. They are triggered by the revolt of the Asian Greek cities against the Persian domination, the intervention of Athens in their favor causing retaliation. The two military expeditions of the Achaemenid sovereigns Darius I and Xerxes I constitute the main military episodes of this conflict; they are concluded by the spectacular victory of the European Greek cities led by Athens…

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    with non-human lifeforms. By invoking Kohn’s approach, the study of anthropology is more encompassing of reality rather than interpretations alone. For example, the Runa guide and advise their dogs into adulthood by having the dogs ingest “tsita” in order for their dogs to become “more human” and as one with their master. This practice illustrates the colonial and modern beliefs of the Runa people and their relations to their dogs and how the human interacts with the…

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    The complex narrative structure of The Heart of a Dog, as Schneider rightly observes, can be incorporated into the reading for a ‘range of interpretations’. Building upon his examination of the ‘close association between character and narrative style’, an argument can be brought forward that the novella gives rise to criticism of how the ‘Other’ – in this case, the animal – is treated. It is important to understand how the narrative changes are achieved through the shifting of diegetic level…

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    One would attend a common mess not to destroy himself on food or get very drunk but to enjoy it. It reflected the Spartan society discipline, order, and their responsibility. A man that was dedicated and remained loyal to the common mess just as he would be to Sparta. In contrast, Athenian men attended a Symposiums meaning they all came to drink together. They would just have gorged themselves…

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    Antigone's Play Analysis

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    Historically speaking the play Antigone was always a form of propaganda against Thebes. The Athenians at the time were encouraged to demonstrate against Thebes’s culture i. On one hand Sophocles’ plays can be described as a cultural protests against the tyranny of the Theban government; And on another they can be considered as Sophocles weapons of choice as a deviation from the Theban style of writing and creating a new identity to the Athenian plays .He achieves this by radically changing the…

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