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...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...ocaust. Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the super... ...study conducted by Dr. Kenneth Kendler, professor of psychiatry and director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, and ...

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...arian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and their publ... ...otalitarisme contre une societé fermée, la Roumanie des années 1980, où la culture entière était manipulée par un petit groupe. Seulement leurs idée... ...imit versuri paradoxiste, de exemplu, din: Anglia (A. Hollins); Argentina (Virginia Rhodas); Australia (Paul Haugh); Belgia (Mietje Vansina); Brazil... ...tarian protest against a closed society Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and their publ... ...ia); Free Romanian Writer Association (Fran ţa); World Academy of Arts and Culture (SUA); Liga Cultural ă Oltenia; East and West Literary Foundation...

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...n that moment I realized freedom. According to the perverse values of our culture, I had been robbed of the root of my identity. And with the loss o... ...a close associate of the great 20th-century psychologists Carl Rogers and Virginia Satir, characterizes people who learn to prevail over life's chal... ...nking and being that are moving us towards the millennium, as "the rising culture" brings sweeping social changes to the global human society. $8.9...

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...uldn’t sound like everybody else’s or what Parke Muth at the University of Virginia calls “McEssays,” which all sound alike, just as Big Macs are the ... ...und alike, just as Big Macs are the same— whether you eat them in Paris or Virginia! Compare the following description of a pizza parlor in Philadelph... ... and writing, formal academic language and an orientation to United States culture and student survival skills (Lehigh University 1996-97 Catalog, 35)... ...opeans. While you are visiting Greece, not only are you experiencing Greek culture, but also German, Italian, French, and a host of other European cul... ...se popular choices. Greece is to Europe what St. Thomas is to America; its culture diversity is what makes it so appealing. popular option. The market... ...ece, the beautiful beaches, or the ability to experience several different cultures at the same time, you are sure to find a stay in Greece most satis... ... a pivotal year in my educational experience. Bill Ellis preps for his Pop Culture course. It was a long enduring conquest to comply with these r...

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...Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth,... ...oom, the “cat-hole,” —a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed dur- ing the ante-bellum period. The “cat-hole” was a sq... ...ked, and the family ate a meal in a civilized manner. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten by the chil- dren very much as ... ...s a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt. In the portion of Virginia where I lived it was common to use flax as part of the clothing fo... ...llus- trations of this which I know of is in the case of an ex- slave from Virginia whom I met not long ago in a little town in the state of Ohio. I f... ...shall never forget. Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side... ...training, whether in the languages or mathematics, that gives strength and culture to the mind —but at the same time to give them the most thorough tr... ...ntage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities. While the c... ...th of the world in the direction of giving mankind more intelligence, more culture, more skill, more liberty, and in the direction of extending more s...

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...ch them agri INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 23 culture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which a... ...on are much more so, for no such nation can long exist with out the careful culture of those feelings of confidence and affection which are the effec... ... Dakota has now a population greater than any of the original States (except Virginia) and greater than the aggregate of five of the smaller States in... ...vering and have been able to meet all the requirements of the service. Agri culture has been very slow in reviving, but the price of cereals at last ... ... interest with them. They are each of them building a racial character and a culture which is an impressive contribution to human progress. We wish on... ...the battlefields. Most of these nations have contributed to our race, to our culture, our knowl edge, and our progress. From one of them we derive ou... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 347 Adams and a Virginia planter named Jefferson, mem bers of that remarkable group who ...

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...in some parts of the coast of India; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leathe... ...It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twen... ...n had, it seems, been little more than sufficient to pay the extraordinary culture and the expense of watering; for in countries so near the sun, it w... ...ng that he had examined the land, and that it was inca- pable of any other culture. The pretence of this order was the scarcity of corn and pasture, a... ...f soils than any other fruit-tree. From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. This flavo... ... of justice in these countries, more regular returns might be expected. In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is pre- ferred, as most p... ...rily gives a sort of monopoly to the countries where it is allowed; and as Virginia and Maryland pro- duce the greatest quantity of it, they share lar... ...y to keep up the present price of tobacco, the superior advan- tage of its culture over that of corn, if it still has any, will not probably be of lon... ...arehouses from which goods are retailed in some provinces, particularly in Virginia and Mary- land, belong many of them to merchants who reside in the...

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...her in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian rhexia, and drooping neottia or ladies’ tresses; while from the m... ...s” about it, as they supposed, came all the beaver that was traded between Virginia and Canada,—and the Potomac was thought to come out of or from ver... ...ion of the worthies of the world, betrays the narrowness of his Euro pean culture and the exclusiveness of his reading. None of her children has done... ... rel, Sciurus striatus ( Tamias Lysteri, Aud.), sat upon the end of some Virginia fence or rider reaching over the stream, twirling a green nut with... ...Rice of those parts could even comprehend, and long anticipated this man’s culture,—a glance of his pure genius, which did not much enlighten him, but... ...n 211 HenryDavidThoreau to what interests himself. Men and women of equal culture, thrown together, are sure to be of a certain value to one an othe... ...woman who possesses a restless and intelligent mind, interested in her own culture, and earnest to enjoy the high est possible advantages, and I meet... ...ved, which can detain us long. Indeed, though he represents so different a culture and society, he may be re garded as in many respects the Homer of ... ...ac count of Gentilesse, the Flower and the Leaf, the stories of Griselda, Virginia, Ariadne, and Blanche the Dutchesse, and much more of less disting...

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...g-place, no respectful shelter, where, with the delicacy due to genius and culture, be might secure aid, till, with return- ing health, he would resum... ...er our chance to meet him.” On September 22, 1835, Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Baltimore. She had barely turned thirteen years, Poe him... ... the comfort and happi- 9 V olume One ness their slender means permitted. Virginia died January 30, 1847, when but twenty-five years of age. A friend... ...and left an orphan at an early age, he was adopted by Mr. Allan, a wealthy Virginian, whose barren marriage-bed seemed the warranty of a large estate ... ...sical education in England, he returned home and entered the University of Virginia, where, after an extravagant course, followed by reformation at th...

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...he full possession of my memory. This adventure occurred near Richmond, in Virginia. Ac- companied by a friend, I had proceeded, upon a gunning ex- pe... ...pecuniary resources, might, while retaining the neces- sary idea of art or culture, or, as our author expresses it, of interest, so imbue his designs ... ...d beauty, magnificence, and strangeness, shall convey the idea of care, or culture, or su- perintendence, on the part of beings superior, yet akin to ... ...s, deli- cacy, daintiness, voluptuousness, and a miraculous extremeness of culture that suggested dreams of a new race of fairies, labori- ous, tastef... ...verhead, there was no obstruction whatever below, even to the passage of a Virginian mountain wagon— the most aspiring vehicle, I take it, of its kind...

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...h and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of climate. Superst... ...arful way that he did. But, again, we beg pardon, and entreat the earth of Virginia to lie light upon the remains of John Woolman; for he was an Israe... ...flictions of our human state that spring up as inevitably without separate culture and in defiance of all hostile culture, as verdure, as weeds, and a... ...rom the bosom of war itself. Gradu- ally the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened i...

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...ing, in which he enjoyed the dodges of the trade, on the other hand, agri- culture properly so called, and the internal management of the farm, suited... ... beautiful in books. 32 Madame Bovary Chapter Six S HE HAD READ “Paul and Virginia,” and she had dreamed of the little bamboo-house, the nigger Domin...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclo...

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...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...ary communication to others, free as the air to common use.” 12 Our art, our culture, our science depend on this public domain every bit as much as th... ...en intellectual property and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subjec... ...work. You have a preference for democracy and liberty and you want a vibrant culture: a culture with a little chunk of everything, one that offers hun... ...he soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or the Univer- sity of Virginia. There are a few revisions and interlineations, a couple of word... ...Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997) 1, 40–43, 60–61, 222. 6. Letter to McPherson, 336, quoted...

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...the English society that banished them for England’s good. The colonies in Virginia with access to land and a chance to make homes for themselves esta... ...nt. Often the fact is pointed out that great progress has been made in the culture of plants and the breeding of animals. This is true. No intelligent... ...crubs and taking a chance on results. The effect of selective breeding and culture is beyond dispute, and to many it seems obvious that all that is ne...

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...nt for Bedouins or Malays. The state of different communities, in point of culture and development, ranges downwards to a condition very little above ... ...ven of speculative, and much more of practical, talent. The intel lectual culture compatible with the other type is of that feeble and vague descript... ...ident and of Congress were binding solely on the governments of New Y ork, Virginia, or Pennsylvania, and could only be carried into effect through or...