ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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In conclusion, cos(x)+isin(x) and eix are two ways to move around a circle. While the first one uses cosine and sine, the second one uses number e and an imaginary exponent, and yet they both are equal to each other. This is part of the reason why this formula is so interesting. It defines the relationship between trigonometry and imaginary exponentiation in a very concise manner, and that is the true beauty of this equation. I would like to conclude my exploration of the Eulers formula using a mathematical joke which asks, “How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb?”, The answer to that is ” (which, of course, equals 1!!!).
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In the article “The Identity Dance,” Gunjan Sinha (2004) refutes the idea that genes are solely responsible for identity and proposes that personalities are shaped by a combination of genes and life experience (pp. 1-4). Sinha uses the practical example of identical twins and relies on research studies to support the argument that personality is formed by “nature and nurture” rather than primarily “nature” alone. According to Sinha, several factors have led scientists and the general public to come to the conclusion that DNA or “nature” is responsible for everything from hair color to personality traits.
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One factor has to do with historical events and popular cultural. Sinha notes that one reason “nurture” theories became popular in the 1960s and 1970s was due to reaction against the horrific consequences of Nazi Germany’s strict “nature” eugenics theories (p. 2). Then in the 1990s came a shift back to the “nature” theory, as new technology made it possible for scientists to identify more and more traits associated with genes.
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Lesch was able to identify the gene responsible for transporting serotonin, and determined that different versions of the gene were associated with anxiety disorders in people. Stephen Suomi and Dee Higley were able to demonstrate that simply having the “short” version of the serotonin transporter gene wasn’t a guarantee it would be expressed. In Stephen Suomi and Dee Higley’s research, monkeys with either the long or short version of the serotonin gene were raised either by their mothers in normal family settings, or they were separated as infants and raised in a nursery setting with other monkeys of the same age.
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In monkeys with the short version of the gene, those raised by their mothers didn’t express personality problems, while those raised in the nursery setting suffered from anxiety disorders and even alcoholism (p. 3). Clearly, the short gene predisposed the monkeys to certain personality traits, but it was their upbringing that determined whether or not these traits were expressed. The article also describes research on humans conducted by Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi that demonstrates how life experiences determine the expression of traits associated with the serotonin gene.
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After identifying their type of transport gene, Moffitt and Caspi interviewed subjects about traumatic life events they experienced as early adults. Their long term study clearly demonstrated it was a “…combination of hard knocks and short genes that more than doubled the risk of depression” (p. 4). Other research studying genes associated with antisocial behavior and “novelty seeking” has demonstrated that upbringing, life experiences and even the prenatal environment can act as determining factors when it comes to trait expression.
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Based on this research and the fact that genetically identical twins can have opposite personalities, Gunjan Sinha concludes a combined “nature and nurture” theory is more accurate than emphasizing nature alone when it comes to identity and personality traits. Sinha sums up the implications of this “new science” as follows: “The knowledge that the traits we inherit are also contingent on what the world does to us promises more insight into why people act and feel differently—even when they look exactly the same” (p. 4).
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Practically everyone wonders at some point or another why one child in the family turns out completely opposite from everyone else in terms of personality. In society, we wonder why the wealthy kid with a great upbringing and the best of everything turns to drugs and crime. The research Sinha cites in this article and the theory that a combination of experiences and environment result in the expression of personality traits addresses questions like these. Most importantly, this article points out there is no one single answer to how personality and identity are formed, as the emphasis is on a “combination” of nature and nurture.
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People always seem to want simple answers that can lead to straightforward policies and rules. Too often, easy answers and policies based on them are disastrous, as in the case of the Holocaust. As Sinha points out, if it’s all in the genes, there’s little point trying to improve a child’s environment through better housing or improved education. “The Identity Dance” makes it clear that as technology advances, it’s important not to overlook what falls outside the scientific realm.
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Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse, a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. Various characters claim to suffer painfully from being in love, or, rather, from the pangs of unrequited love.
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At one point, Orsino depicts love dolefully as an “appetite” that he wants to satisfy and cannot, at another point; he calls his desires “fell and cruel hounds”. Olivia more bluntly describes love as a “plague” from which she suffers terribly. These metaphors contain an element of violence, further painting the love-struck as victims of some random force in the universe. Even the less melodramatic Viola sighs unhappily that “My state is desperate for my master’s love.
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Love is also exclusionary: some people achieve romantic happiness, while others do not. At the end of the play, as the happy lovers rejoice, both Malvolio and Antonio are prevented from having the objects of their desire. Malvolio, who has pursued Olivia, must ultimately face the realization that he is a fool, socially unworthy of his noble mistress. Antonio is in a more difficult situation, as social norms do not allow for the gratification of his apparently sexual attraction to Sebastian.
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The Uncertainty of Gender Gender is one of the most obvious and much-discussed topics in the play. Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s so-called transvestite comedies, in which a female character—in this case, Viola—disguises herself as a man. This situation creates a sexual mess: Viola falls in love with Orsino but cannot tell him, because he thinks she is a man, while Olivia, the object of Orsino’s affection, falls for Viola in her guise as Cesario. There is a clear homoerotic subtext here: Olivia is in love with a woman, even if she thinks he is a man, and Orsino often remarks on Cesario’s beauty, suggesting that he is attracted to Viola even before her male disguise is removed. This latent homoeroticism finds an explicit echo in the minor character of Antonio, who is clearly in love with his male friend, Sebastian. But Antonio’s desires cannot be satisfied, while Orsino and Olivia both find tidy heterosexual gratification once the sexual ambiguities and deceptions are straightened out.
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Yet, even at the play’s close, Shakespeare leaves things somewhat murky, especially in the Orsino-Viola relationship. Orsino’s declaration of love to Viola suggests that he enjoys prolonging the pretence of Viola’s masculinity. Even after he knows that Viola is a woman, Orsino says to her, “Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times / Thou never should’st love woman like to me.’’ Similarly, in his last lines, Orsino declares, “Cesario, come— / For so you shall be while you are a man; / But when in other habits you are seen, / Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen.” Even once everything is revealed, Orsino continues to address Viola by her male name. We can thus only wonder whether Orsino is truly in love with Viola, or if he is more enamoured of her male persona.
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The Folly of Ambition The problem of social ambition works itself out largely through the character of Malvolio, the steward, who seems to be a competent servant, if prudish and dour, but proves to be, in fact, a supreme egotist, with tremendous ambitions to rise out of his social class. Maria plays on these ambitions when she forges a letter from Olivia that makes Malvolio believe that Olivia is in love with him and wishes to marry him. Sir Toby and the others find this fantasy hysterically funny, of course—not only because of Malvolio’s unattractive personality but also because Malvolio is not of noble blood. In the class system of Shakespeare’s time, a noblewoman would generally not sully her reputation by marrying a man of lower social status.
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Yet the atmosphere of the play may render Malvolio’s aspirations less unreasonable than they initially seem. The feast of Twelfth Night, from which the play takes its name, was a time when social hierarchies were turned upside down. That same spirit is alive in Illyria: indeed, Malvolio’s antagonist, Maria, is able to increase her social standing by marrying Sir Toby. But it seems that Maria’s success may be due to her willingness to accept and promote the anarchy that Sir Toby and the others embrace. This Twelfth Night spirit, then, seems to pass by Malvolio, who doesn’t wholeheartedly embrace the upending of order and decorum but rather wants to blur class lines for himself alone.
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Letters, Messages, and Tokens Twelfth Night features a great variety of messages sent from one character to another—sometimes as letters and other times in the form of tokens. Such messages are used both for purposes of communication and miscommunication—sometimes deliberate and sometimes accidental. Maria’s letter to Malvolio, which purports to be from Olivia, is a deliberate (and successful) attempt to trick the steward. Sir Andrew’s letter demanding a duel with Cesario, meanwhile, is meant seriously, but because it is so appallingly stupid, Sir Toby does not deliver it, rendering it extraneous. Malvolio’s missive, sent by way of Feste from the dark room in which he is imprisoned, ultimately works to undo the confusion caused by Maria’s forged letter and to free Malvolio from his imprisonment.
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But letters are not the only kind of messages that characters employ to communicate with one another. Individuals can be employed in the place of written communication—Orsino repeatedly sends Cesario, for instance, to deliver messages to Olivia. Objects can function as messages between people as well: Olivia sends Malvolio after Cesario with a ring, to tell the page that she loves him, and follows the ring up with further gifts, which symbolize her romantic attachment. Messages can convey important information, but they also create the potential for miscommunication and confusion—especially with characters like Maria and Sir Toby manipulating the information.
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Madness No one is truly insane in Twelfth Night, yet a number of characters are accused of being mad, and a current of insanity or zaniness runs through the action of the play. After Sir Toby and Maria dupe Malvolio into believing that Olivia loves him, Malvolio behaves so bizarrely that he is assumed to be mad and is locked away in a dark room. Malvolio himself knows that he is sane, and he accuses everyone around him of being mad. Meanwhile, when Antonio encounters Viola (disguised as Cesario), he mistakes her for Sebastian, and his angry insistence that she recognize him leads people to assume that he is mad. All of these incidents feed into the general atmosphere of the play, in which normal life is thrown topsy-turvy, and everyone must confront a reality that is somehow fractured.
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Disguises Many characters in Twelfth Night assume disguises, beginning with Viola, who puts on male attire and makes everyone else believe that she is a man. By dressing his protagonist in male garments, Shakespeare creates endless sexual confusion with the Olivia-Viola–Orsino love triangle. Other characters in disguise include Malvolio, who puts on crossed garters and yellow stockings in the hope of winning Olivia, and Feste, who dresses up as a priest—Sir Topas—when he speaks to Malvolio after the steward has been locked in a dark room. Feste puts on the disguise even though Malvolio will not be able to see him, since the room is so dark, suggesting that the importance of clothing is not just in the eye of the beholder. For Feste, the disguise completes his assumption of a new identity—in order to be Sir Topas, he must look like Sir Topas. Viola puts on new clothes and changes her gender, while Feste and Malvolio put on new garments either to impersonate a nobleman (Feste) or in the hopes of becoming a nobleman (Malvolio). Through these disguises, the play raises questions about what makes us who we are, compelling the audience to wonder if things like gender and class are set in stone, or if they can be altered with a change of clothing.
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Mistaken Identity The instances of mistaken identity are related to the prevalence of disguises in the play, as Viola’s male clothing leads to her being mistaken for her brother, Sebastian, and vice versa. Sebastian is mistaken for Viola (or rather, Cesario) by Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, and then by Olivia, who promptly marries him. Meanwhile, Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian, and thinks that his friend has betrayed him when Viola claims to not know him. These cases of mistaken identity, common in Shakespeare’s comedies, create the tangled situation that can be resolved only when Viola and Sebastian appear together, helping everyone to understand what has happened.
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Olivia’s Gifts When Olivia wants to let Cesario know that she loves him, she sends him a ring by way of Malvolio. Later, when she mistakes Sebastian for Cesario, she gives him a precious pearl. In each case, the jewel serves as a token of her love—a physical symbol of her romantic attachment to a man who is really a woman. The gifts are more than symbols, though. “Youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed,” Olivia says at one point, suggesting that the jewels are intended almost as bribes—that she means to buy Cesario’s love if she cannot win it.
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The Darkness of Malvolio’s Prison When Sir Toby and Maria pretend that Malvolio is mad, they confine him in a pitch-black chamber. Darkness becomes a symbol of his supposed insanity, as they tell him that the room is filled with light and his inability to see is a sign of his madness. Malvolio reverses the symbolism. “I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say there was never man thus abused.” In other words, the darkness—meaning madness—is not in the room with him, but outside, with Sir Toby and Feste and Maria, who have unjustly imprisoned him.
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Changes of Clothing Clothes are powerful in Twelfth Night. They can symbolize changes in gender—Viola puts on male clothes to be taken for a male— as well as class distinctions. When Malvolio fantasizes about becoming a nobleman, he imagines the new clothes that he will have. When Feste impersonates Sir Topas, he puts on a nobleman’s garb, even though Malvolio, whom he is fooling, cannot see him, suggesting that clothes have a power that transcends their physical function.
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Your Common Access Card, otherwise known as a CAC card, is an important piece of identification that should always be carried around with you especially on and around military bases and facilities. The CAC card has many functions and information that is all personal to you as a military member or Department of Defense worker. When you are issued your CAC card, you learn to use it as your identification card. It has your full name, picture and date of birth printed on it along with what section of the Department of Defense you work with; whether it is a military branch or a civilian employer.
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The EDIPI is printed on the card and in the integrated circuit chip noting that the card belongs to you when you use it on a government network. Because of all of this personal identification about you is stored on this card it is essential that you always keep this card on you. If you were to lose this card many things could happen; for example since it states that you are part of that government facility or base and you don’t have it you can be rejected from going to where you need to be.
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The other reason to constantly keep your CAC card on you could be for emergency situations. It has your information on it, and if you were to get into an accident, the CAC card could help identify who you are and access your insurance information from your EDIPI number along with other vital information that may be needed in case of an emergency. The last reason is more for personal gain. If you constantly have your CAC card on you, there is a possibility of receiving military discounts from places or possibly getting into events for free. These things could range from something small such as a quick meal or could be something as significant as a concert or other events. There are many things your CAC card is used for but the most important is personal identification and gaining access to military bases, facilities and networks. Those are the main reasons you want to keep your CAC card on you at all times and never loose it.
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Throughout the beginning scenes of Twelfth Night Shakespeare uses dramatic comedy as a main way to create humour to the audience. The shock factor creates a comical atmosphere to the beginning of the play, and the form in which Shakespeare introduces the character’s expresses effectively each character’s over exaggerated personality creating dramatic comedy. As twelfth night is a comedy but is all about mistaken identity and love Shakespeare had to reveal the comedy in discreet ways to make the humour natural and the only way this could be produced was through dramatic forms creating the comedy through over exaggeration.
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The false view of love Orsino shows humours the audience as they realise he only cares for himself and not Olivia, throughout the scene he expresses how in love he is however he does not use Olivia’s name until line 20. The audience can see through this false view of love yet the audience can see Orsino does not recognise his false view of love which adds to the drama of the beginning of the play. Shakespeare uses the form of Orsino’s lengthy speech in this act to add a dramatic effect as it enhances the way in which Orsino’s character puts forward his personality and makes everything even more exaggerated.
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‘If music be the food of love, play on;’ The play begins with a metaphor comparing music to food this helps to express Orsino’s feelings as when people are in Orsino’s situation they tend to indulge in food similarly to Orsino’s self-indulgent. Orsino’s self-indulgent is the main focus of Act 1, Scene 1 and creates a dramatic effect to the very beginning of the play as the audience are humoured by the drama of Orsino’s character.
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This scene certainly shows dramatic comedy as the audience laugh at Orsino’s unawareness however they sympathise for Orsino as he gets rejected. Although the audience think that Orsino does not love Olivia they still feel sorry for him as he makes such a drama out of the situation and does not move on with his life because of it, however the audience also laugh at this as Orsino believes he is so in love he does not understand his own feelings. Act 1, Scene 2 shows the drama of Viola’s character which creates entertainment for the audience as Viola plans to pretend to be a man. This is an unexpected event to be seen at the time which Shakespeare wrote the play and therefore added dramatic comedy to the beginning of the play. The audience were unable to empathize with Viola’s situation as it was overdramatic and therefore found it humorous. However Act 1, Scene 2 shows farcical comedy through Viola’s disguise rather than showing typical dramatic comedy.
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Viola is a major character which progresses the plot of the play and therefore although in this scene the audience begins to see the drama of her character they do not fully see the comedic value of her dramatic character as they do not understand the situation properly. Act 1, Scene 3 creates dramatic comedy through Sir Andrew’s stupidity, and the fact that he also want’s Olivia. This scene shows the drama of both utterly different people wanting Olivia and therefore introduces comedic factors, as Sir Andrew tells himself he is unable to woo Olivia he plans to leave however Sir Toby manages to ensure Sir Andrew stays in Illyria cleverly by informing him Olivia does not want anyone above her status, the hope from this situation creates dramatic comedy to the audience. Act 1, Scene 3 is mostly general comedy through mockery. ‘Good Mistress Mary Accost’ Andrew thinks Maria’s name is Mary Accost when in fact Accost means to woo her.
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Sir Toby mocks Sir Andrew for this however it does not show typical dramatic comedy as it is just exaggeration of Sir Andrew’s personality which makes the audience laugh. Dramatic irony throughout Act 1, Scene 4 is the focused point for the dramatic comedy produced. ‘And all is semblative but a woman’s parts’ the irony of this creates comedy to the audience through the drama of Viola’s character as Shakespeare purposely ensures the audience know Viola is a woman whereas Orsino is unaware of Viola’s secret. Scene 1, Act 5 once again shows the over exaggeration of Olivia’s character can cause humour towards the audience. ‘you will be hanged for being so long absent’ it is unlikely Olivia will sack Feste for being missing however the drama of this creates humour at the start of this act however when Olivia enters she has a joke with Feste. Viola also visits Olivia on behalf of Orsino and more dramatic irony is shown.
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‘ I am not what I play’ these hints cause humour to the audience as the audience understand what the hints the characters do not even notice and then Olivia instantly clicks with Viola showing that Olivia is going to fall in love with Viola, this creates typical dramatic comedy throughout the opening scenes as it is wrong of Olivia to like Viola as she is not what she seems and this adds to the drama of the play as the audience feel sorry for Olivia as she is not in the plan and therefore is being lied to. The opening scenes of Shakespeare’s twelfth night are typical of dramatic comedy as the audience find humour within the situations the characters of the play see as serious. The beginning of the play does not show ordinary comedy but instead only humours the audience through dramatic events which are not necessarily comical but the way in which they are shown to the audience make the audience laugh.
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However the opening scenes are mainly a way to introduce characters and therefore do not hold many events which show dramatic comedy and the scenes involve more farcical comedy and dramatic irony, the exaggeration of characters and events is the main humour behind the play. Comic confusion also is a major factor of the audiences humour at the beginning of the play as Viola dresses as a man this disguise causes misunderstanding for Orsino who thinks she is a man and as the play proceeds through the theme of love causes more confusion and continues this humour throughout the play. Therefore the opening scenes of twelfth night do not produce as much dramatic comedy as the rest of the play as it is an introduction to the further dramatic events however the opening scenes do hint at dramatic comedy.
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David and Bar-Tal’s look at collective identity by incorporating a micro and macro level of research. The first level tells us the individual process of identification; which is important with the surrounding society for molding of one. There are many aspects of identification such as cognitive, motivational, and emotional. Macro is the second level it defines collective identity in a diverse way such as, a situation in which people in society identify themselves as collective and they also know there are other people that do this as well.
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What is a family actually? Have you ever wondered? A family is shaped by how we live our everyday lives with the members of our family; families constitute and manage their identities themselves (Epp, A & Price, L, 2008). We do not know what one is as a family, each family containes different everyday experience and consists of uniqueness within everyone. A family is usually seen as a “we”; there may be a way to tell how a family sustains their identity and how they engage in consumption activities to manage those identities. Families build collective identity as they see it in media and what they inherit; their identity is the sense of it owns continuity over time, and the present situation and its characters. The authors Epp, A and Price, L (2008) go into figuring out exactly how family identity works; I believe that family identity builds from the day it has started and their identity does not just appear it has to be created.
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Change is a huge aspect of life, it can shape how we live; family rituals and traditions are abounded within change throughout lives. The value of assessing family ritual life is an aid to understanding how a family gets organized and the process of becoming an actual family. According to Giblin’s (1995) research that there if there was not any family rituals, the families were not satisfied in their marriage which would affect the kids as well. A relationship between family ritual meaning and marital satisfaction was demonstrated with good results. Families, like individuals, have identities; the family may have certain beliefs about themselves which are generally recognized and seen by others. Such beliefs may relate to the family’s achievement, career aspirations, wealth, poverty, physical appearance, communication styles or coping mechanisms.
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Each of these qualities or characteristics reflects the family identity (Friesen, J, 1990). Rituals are one of those things that make a family different from all the other families in the world; every family has a certain ritual or belief that they hang onto which also gets carried on throughout their generations of the family. A ritual does not have to be something that is based on one’s culture, a ritual can be something like having movie night every Friday of the month and everyone just sitting together and relaxing as family; a ritual can be as simple as that. Change can also how a families identity is, because in the place where they are known, they have a reputation that they have to live up to kind of and in a new place they have to build that again, which is an example of change like moving to a different place. Change can also be something like a divorce which is huge in a family; it can change many things throughout all the relationships that had been made already.
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Does one make a family based on what they have read about what a family should actually be? Specialist has their own theories about what a family should act like, but a family has their own theories about how they should work together as. Our own family and our everyday lives are by the complex intersections of many forces such as things like material health, moral and spiritual, temporal, spatial and relationship concerns (Daly, K, 2003). These concerns are both ordinary and persistent; they are not often apparent in our formal theories of families. The theories created by specialist have referred as the “elusiveness of family life”; everyday concerns such as the ones listed above are pervasive, however they are not often apparent in the formal theories created about families. There is a difference between theories that scholars create and what a family actually lives by.
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The author uses negative spaces to foreground the implicit theories created by scholars; negative spaces are the recessive areas that we are unaccustomed to seeing but that are every but important for the representation of the reality at hand (Daly, K, 2003). The three main negative spaces in a family include things such as the realm of belief and intuition which consists of emotions, religious and spiritual matter, the world of material things and the coordinate of time and space as means of everyday family experiences (Daly, K, 2003).
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Families are created by people, they do not just occur. People begin a family with people they care about and also sometimes a certain place can make it easier to make a family happen. Miller, L (1995) explains that there is decline of intact families in the suburbs; once a promising place for a family to flourish, Family is not only a domestic alliance, it is a group of people that enjoy each other’s company. There doubts in many ways that the social and spatial structure of suburbia does promote family togetherness. Family was beginning to be redefined as a source of companionship and emotional sustenance and the suburbs were a great place to begin according to Miller, L (1995). Family I believe is an alliance that creates a household to take care of its members’ basic necessities; but they are also a group of people who enjoy each other’s company. This is a vision of family togetherness, meaning that husband, wife and children choose to spend the time not claimed by wage labor or school with one another, they prefer each other’s company instead of the things in the outside world that could be attractive.
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In conclusion the value of assessing family ritual life is an aid to understanding how a family gets organized and the process of becoming an actual family .A relationship between family ritual meaning and marital satisfaction was demonstrated with good results. Families, like individuals, have identities; the family may have certain beliefs about themselves which are generally recognized and seen by others. There is a difference between theories that scholars create and what a family actually lives by. Families are created with the thought that each and every one takes care of its members’ basic necessities; but they are also a group of people who enjoy each other’s company.
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This is a vision of family togetherness, meaning that husband, wife and children choose to spend. Families can have multiple identities that can be caused by divorce as well, also not having a ritual in a family actually affect their identity greatly. Everyone wants to create a family that works out with no problem and that everyone enjoys each other’s company when together no matter how busy their personal life may be or how much work they have to do at their jobs, giving time to their family should not be something they are forced to give, it should something they want to do.
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The dynamics of Canada’s Laws of tolerance, bilingualism and multiculturalism towards non-British descent have changed since World War II (WW II). During the First World War, a term called “Enemy Aliens” was used towards Canadians of non-British descent who were treated very poorly. Many were sent to internment camps where they had to endure harsh living conditions. Equality was not present at the time. It was nearly 26 years after the end of WWII that a formal Multiculturalism Policy was adopted in 1971.
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It ensured that all Canadians will have the freedom of belief, opinion and religion. It created a more culturally diverse society which has now become the hallmark of Canadian identity. Another significant development was the introduction of The Official Languages Act 1969 which essentially proclaimed both English and French to be the two official languages of Canada. As a result of these two Acts, Canada has ensured that it is committed to recognizing the rights of minorities in general and of immigrants on non-British descent in particular.
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Both WW I and WW II saw the unfair treatment towards enemy aliens and natives in Canada. Japanese Canadian Internment which refers to the confinement of Japanese in British Columbia (BC) during WW II. Over twenty thousand Japanese were scattered in camps throughout BC where the living conditions were extremely poor, many families were forced to live in small shacks with inadequate heating in the winter months. The internments started in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbour when the Canadian Government issued internment orders suspecting Japanese to be engaging in espionage.
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Though there was no official proof that Japanese were involved in any such activities, they were nevertheless placed in such camps. WW I shaped a debate regarding the preferred racial composition in Canadian society. Canadians found the presence of enemy aliens distressing during the war. Germans, Austro-Hungarians and Ukrainian immigrants residing in Canada were forced into labour camps. Suspension from jobs was common and entry into many buildings for the so called aliens was denied. There were 500,000 German and Austro-Hungarian people living in Canada as well as over 125,000 Ukrainians.
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At first the government urged fair treatment for these people but as the war continued, Canadians became more suspicious and intolerant of such people. Aboriginals also received unfair treatment from the government. Even though they volunteered by enlisting as soldiers and even making cash contributions for the war efforts they continued to be treated as second class citizens. Ironically, natives were fighting for freedom and victory of the British and the allies in WW II, yet they did not enjoy the basic rights as citizens in their own homeland.
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After significant pressure on the Canadian Government, the Indian Act was amended and was not until 1960 that the Aboriginals and natives were recognized as full citizens and were granted the right to vote. Horrific events such as Japanese internments, classifying Canadians as enemy aliens and mistreatment of Native Canadians were a dark period in Canadian history. Many efforts have been made through apologies and cash compensation for the victims. Canada was the first country to adopt an official Multiculturalism Policy in 1971 which resulted in a positive shift towards recognizing minority groups.
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The policy ensured that all Canadians have equal rights to keep their identity and believe in what they practice. It created a much more diverse cultural society signifying Canada’s recognition as one of the most progressive countries in the world. Ethnic restaurants, grocery stores and other establishments add colour to the mosaic and creates a rich heritage in times to come. This policy was important because it has allowed people coming in from lesser developed countries to enjoy a better, safe and secure life in Canada as well as enjoy equal rights and status.
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It sparked off nnovation in various fields and it is worth noting that nearly 35% of all Canadian Research Chairs in various Universities are occupied by foreign born Canadians whereas immigrants only account for 20% of the total population of Canada. After the WW II, it took Canada nearly 25 years to recognize the importance of contribution and acceptance of immigrants in the form of the official Multiculturalism Policy. The Official Languages Act which came into force in September 1969 ensures the official bilingualism in Canada.
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Prior to this, Canada was predominantly an English speaking country but this policy ensured that both English and French be considered as the two official languages. It gives the right to Canadians to seek government services in either language although it does not require all Canadian citizens to speak both languages. For example, all Canadians are entitled to receive health care and social services in either language. The Official Languages Act also had a significant impact on promoting French language in the school system across Canada. The French Immersion Programmes offered in schools are a product of this Act.
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It also ensures access to English and French education to linguistic minorities. The Act also encouraged widespread use of both languages in commerce and business by requiring all products sold in Canada to be labeled in both languages. Even though the Act fostered the use of both languages, the reality todays is that many Canadians still continue to be unilingual. Canada has certainly emerged as a country, since the end of WW II, as tolerant towards immigrants living here as well as recognizing the Anglo & Francophone cultural fabric of the country.
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Enemy aliens from many different nations experienced unfair treatment from the Canadian government for reasons that they were not directly responsible for. The Multiculturalism Policy has changed Canada’s views on accepting these immigrants and treating them as equal. Canada did not just ensure the equality between all races in Canada, but also recognizing the equality between the two official languages of Canada. Thus the last 65 years, since the end of WW II, have shown that the Canadian society and landscape has changed dramatically to accommodate a broad mix of non-British descent immigrants.
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Physically, I am an Asian boy with somewhat a smooth hairstyle. I’m relatively chubby with about 168-centimeter height and 80-kilogram weight. Working out every single day and trying to build a ripped body aren’t my things. However, I do love sports, a whole lot. Basketball, table tennis and swimming are hobbies that I enjoy doing real much whenever I have some free time or I simply need a stress reliever. The way I look and the way I speak may make people think that I’m an Asian American, but I’m not.
Topic: identity

I would love to get busy going on Amazon. om and eBay to try to find the same textbook with the best price instead of just going straight to the bookstore and spend a couple of hundreds of dollars for books that I might no even need them that much. But I am also the kind of guy who would use up almost all of my savings in order to throw a party or buy “big” goods such as musical instruments, a new sound system, or a cool-looking suit. I was born and raised by the lessons from my parents of “using and controlling the money economically as well as reasonably, not penny-pinchingly”.
Topic: identity

And I found those lessons very helpful and logical because if I save more money on something that doesn’t really need to be so costly, I would have more extra savings to use on bigger and more important products. So simply speaking, I’m the “save Smalls, spend Bigs” kind of guy. I’m a straight up emotional guy, no kidding. There are guys who cry to the movie “Titanic” even though they have watched it for the fifth or sixth time. I am one of those. I’m easily touched and moved by various types of things.
Topic: identity

From a novel with a sad ending, a movie with the nice character having to die, to a close friend of mine facing a difficult family issue, or even the people whose lives were severely damaged and destroyed by all kinds of natural disasters. There are indeed many people who look at a emotional guy, like myself, and making fun of the fact that I am too “girly”. However, I personally think being emotional gives me uncountable amount of advantages. Being emotional makes me want to care about issues that are happening around me and around the world.
Topic: identity

Being emotional makes me want to share and listen to people and their lives’ stories. Being emotional brings more colors to my life. In addition, emotionally wise, I smile for more than ninety percent of the time you see me, even in the very far corner of your eyes. I believe that one’s smile can be really viral in bringing the others happiness and spreading out the positive looks on people’s faces. And simply, I love smiling. With the natural love for smiling, I am able to look at almost everything through a relatively positive lens so that there should be no “dead end” or extremely stressful problems.
Topic: identity

I’m not one of those guys who love to hang out with people twenty four seven. I’m not one of those guys who socially active so much that I would dedicate eighty percent of my free time reaching out to my friends and any new people to get along and start chatting. I define myself more as a person who would not rush for the amount of friends I have right at the moment but I rather concentrate on building up strong bonds with my close friends right now and slowly meet new people in situations that I feel more comfortable and confident such as in organizations, clubs, projects.
Topic: identity

I enjoy listening more than talking. Not that I was born loving to be silent and listen to people’s stories. But I realized that talking only gives me opportunities to make lots of new friends whereas listening brings people closer to me, in the most truthful and sincere ways. On the other hand, I am a true music lover as well as a person who love to make people happy. Integrating those two aspects together I found myself enjoy sharing my music openly and entertain people with my acoustic guitar, my ukulele and my limited knowledge of music.
Topic: identity

Since there is no doubt that music is one of the most common and popular language that everybody speaks, I thoroughly believe that using music as an approach to connect with the society is my strongest key to be sociable. Talking about my passion towards music and my identity socially wise, I have joined, performed, and organized several concerts with various of purposes: charity, fund raising for student council, or a simple relaxed music session on a Friday night that is opened for all musicians, students and faculty members who want to get away from stressful work and enjoy real music.
Topic: identity

Being quite independent, I got used to dealing with problems and overcoming difficulties without my parents beside. It was tough, but I was not alone. We, international students, were on the same boat in my boarding school back in New York: homesick, shy, excited, studied in the language that is not our mother language, having several cultural shocks with brand new experiences in an unfamiliar country. But I survived; we all managed to get through those seemingly impossible challenges.
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And now entering my freshmen year of college, is a whole new story: Meeting real American friends, walking on campus greeting to old faces and smiling to thousands or new faces, studying much more independently, being more responsible, being ready to make mistakes, trying to find a job that I really wanted, and a whole bunch of unrevealed chapters. Of course, at certain points, I was lost. I couldn’t figure out what is the point of getting through all that jazz. I could not see why I had to use so much money from my parents in order to pay for the education that I did not know what I wanted from it.
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All of those confusions and misdirection kept building up and I once thought I faced the biggest tragedy of my life: living pointlessly. The piece of story of how I got through that catastrophe is not important. The result of that campaign was just beautiful. I knew the utmost meanings of doing things that I have done: to live a life that I want to. If someone says he is doing his homework continuously and keep nailing A after A after A in all of his classes with the purpose of having a highest-paid job out there and make unbelievable much money for the rest of his life, I respect that. But I don’t care.
Topic: identity

The beauty of the real ultimate goal of my life that I have always been fighting for is simply: to make everyone, my family, my friends, and myself happy. Studying hard, making friends, joining organizations, taking care of my family, playing music, trying new things, all that jazz, are all oriented towards one, and only one, point: creating such harmonious happiness that everyone love to live in. It sounds cheesy. It does. But it is true. And from now on, no matter how crazy those upcoming challenges might be, I know where to lean on, I know what I want, and I know what IS the POINT. I know myself.
Topic: identity

Girish Karnad’s use of folk forms is neither casual nor incidental. In his Hayavadana, he has made innovative experiment to offer a new direction to modern theatre. The dramatist has proved that the traditional forms need not be treated as precious artifacts, but can be adapted to treat modern themes suitable for the urban audience. This paper is an attempt to portray how Karnad used the ancient story to explore the theme of human identity in a world of tangled relationships and a struggle for perfection.
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Girish Karnad, in Hayavadana, which won the Natya Sangh Best Play Award in 1971, gives expression to Indian imagination in its richest colours and profound meanings. As a significant mark of achievement Karnad makes bold innovations, fruitful experiments and new directions in the history of Indian drama. In Hayavadana, Karnad combines the western techniques with Indian folk psyche, socio-cultural and political reality. The entire play is cast in the form of traditional Indian folk drama, which took several features of ancient Sanskrit drama.
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Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana is based on Thomas Mann’s story entitled ‘Transposed Heads’, which in turn is based on one of the versions of the story in vetal panchavimshati. (The plays of Girish Karnad: The Development of Girish Karnad as a dramatist) But Karnad draws heavily on Thomas Mann’s story. In Hayavadana, Karnad wants to suggest to us that for us king Vikram’s solution does not solve the problem.
Topic: identity

The sub-plot of Hayavadana is entirely different from Karnad’s invention. In the play the stories of the sub-plot throughout supports the main plot. Hayavadana is an enigmatic play. Kirtinath Kurkkoti says, ‘Karnad’s play poses a different problem, that of human identity in a world of tangled relationships’ (Contemporary Indian Drama 53). Another critic U. R. Anantha Murthy in his A Note of Karnad’s Hayavadana, comments about theme like incompleteness in a comic mode.’ A few paragraphs later he says, ‘The play tries to create an illusion in us that the head determines the being of man’ (56).
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At the same time Shubhangi says that ‘completeness is a humanly impossible ideal as suggested first in the story of Hayavadana and later in the transposition of head. Finally he achieves its aesthetic goal’ (The development of Girish Karnad as a Dramatist: Hayavadana). Anantha Murthy points out that Devadatta is the least ‘individuated’ character. But this is explicable in terms of the thematic design of the play. (A Note on Karnad’s Hayavadana. Karnad Girish, three plays Nagamandala Hayavadana, Tughlaq 93) Veena Noble Dass observes. ‘His agony is the agony of the artist who is deeply aware of the sterility and horror that is life’ (Three Plays of Girish Karnad, 64). In Hayavadana, as in Shankuntalam and Mrichhakatikam the description of Padmini’s affinity with nature resonates with erotic emotion.