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    yes. We are all capable of making the best decisions for ourselves because we all have what is called a gut feeling. The term gut feeling is the instinct, the basic feeling we sometimes feel without a rationale. A lot of the times we tend to disregard our own feelings because there is no logical reasoning behind them. However, listening to your gut instinct is important because psychologists have determined that our unconscious minds can dictate decision making more that we think. When you try…

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    uses indirect characterization to describe the characteristic of Richard Parker. In Life of Pi, Richard Parker is characterized as an animal which being fearsome and bestial in order to render an atmosphere of terror and reveal Pi's animalistic instincts in the story. Although Richard Parker is fearsome, ironically his existence makes Pi stay alive. The following quote indicates the responses of other characters. "A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would…

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    preferring their instinctual orientation. The stigma associated with homosexuality, and thus an Eros-driven instinctual orientation, teaches these individuals from a young age to repress and reject these instincts within themselves. "Our study of the perversions has shown us that the sexual instinct has to struggle against certain mental forces which act as resistances, and of which shame and disgust are the…

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    Blaise Pascal's Argument

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    Herd instinct mean something developed by human power through evolution and survival of the fittest. This means that we must follow the human instincts, the problem was this that often human’s strongest instincts leads people to something that is not always the right thing to do. For example a crowds have actually stands around to watch an innocent person be…

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    C.S. Lewis’s, Mere Christianity, combined ethics and religion in an attempt to find the meaning of the universe. By focusing on the aspect of right and wrong, I was able to combine a bulk of this module’s assignments into one paper, allowing me a more comprehensive picture. Compare the thinking of the development of ethical thought through the ages: The teams built their ACU PEPs on guidelines which had already been established to build a comprehensive standard of our own for mediators. The…

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    Farther Reaches of Human Nature). In the third release of his Theories of Human Nature, Peter Loptson inspects twelve conceivable responses to the topic of being a person. Thoughtful to the individuals who yearning to "move the investigation of human instinct into the classification of information," we shuns any record of our humankind that is "simply hypothesis, theoretical vision" and looks for rather those…

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    Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” is about instinct and reasoning. The story shows how using your instincts and rationally reasoning about a problem could prove to be useful, and how it might just save your life. Evidence for the theme can be found in the story. (42) “He wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his power.” The main character, Rainsford falls out of a yacht and lands in water. This shows his first instinct was to take his clothes off to become…

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    What ideas about Survival are represented in ‘Lion’? By isaac Molloy Survival is the ability to live or exist and face new challenges. Lion represents survival by trusting your instincts, adapting to surroundings and considering all options and think of innovative ideas.The author of Lion is Saroo Brierley written in 2013.The story is about a young boy who gets’s lost in Calcutta, then he is adopted by an Australian family then when he is an adult he finds his way home to meet his birth…

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    Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity are equally used within the novels I’ve read by the protagonists inside of the novels. The ways in which Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity is used within my Summer Reading Novel is explained in the following paragraph. Over the long and seemingly endless summer, I read a book that that told the struggle of dealing with an eating disorder and overcoming the death of a close friend. The protagonist of the novel (Lia Anderson),…

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    why he claims that nature would have made a grave mistake if it burdened reason with finding happiness. Happiness, he writes, could be “attained far more surely by instinct than it ever could be by reason”. Instinct seems to mesh much better with finding happiness than reason does, as reason can cause desires to be skewed, while instinct…

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