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Positive Adult Education, Learned Helplessness and the Pygmalion Effect. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Cobos-Sanchiz D   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Revolt of IslamにおけるShelleyの理想的社会改革の希求

open access: yes, 2011
application/pdfAN00000289-20110726-25This paper examines Percy Bysshe Shelley's revolutionary poem, The Revolt of Islam, and his idealistic theory as to a social reform.
鈴木, 里奈   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Constraints of human nature in the political philosophy of Rousseau

open access: yes, 2017
In his Second Discourse and elsewhere, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously argues for the perfectibility and malleability of man. That is, for Rousseau, man is the historical being whose moral character, dispositions, and inclinations are variable and to a ...
Clishem, Timothy Joseph
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AUTOMATA IN THE VICTORIAN IMAGINATION: FICTIONAL RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALIZATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND HUMAN PERFECTIBILITY

open access: yes, 2020
This dissertation tracks the automaton’s appearance in Victorian literature from 1840 to 1900. It shows how authors across genre, form, and time conceptualized and responded to the Machine Age, using the automaton as a symbol of humanity’s changing ...
Stephenson, Ethan
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Cultural Imperialism, Afro-Cuban Religion, and Santiago’s Failure in Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eThe Old Man and the Sea\u3c/em\u3e

open access: yes, 2006
Argues that in the novella “the quest for human perfectibility in baseball is not transferable to the spiritual landscape of the Caribbean.” Discusses Santiago’s resistance to the influence of Afro-Cuban religions in favor of imperial faiths and American
Melling, Philip
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