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This research paper explores the claim that celibacy within the clergy results in sexual deviation. The paper begins with an elucidation of the problem within the Catholic Church and an explanation for the propagation of celibacy in Catholic theory. It then goes on to list the three main myths associated with celibacy; namely, that Catholic priests are more likely to become pedophiles than any other group of men, that the celibate state of the priesthood leads to pedophilia and that married clergy would make pedophilia and other forms of sexual misconduct cease to exist. The paper then proceeds to explore both sides of the argument of whether a relationship between celibacy and sexual deviance exists, and in doing so, the writer brings in the opinions of various experts. The paper continues by looking at the treatment of sexual deviance by the Catholic Church and concludes by deducing that there is no connection between celibacy and sexual deviance.

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"In today's society, the Catholic Church is confronted with two important issues regarding sexuality. The first is the scandal of sexual abuse of children by priests, which is a highly publicized issue that it damaging the reputation of the Catholic Church in the United States. The second is the question of whether priest should take a vow of celibacy and remain unmarried."

Tags:Catholic, theory, priest, pedophile, relationship, connection, treatment, priesthood, sexuality, sexual, abuse

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This paper will offer a cursory survey of three variations to the nuclear family in modern day North America. This is done in an effort to determine how far our social value systems will allow us to deviate from the traditional model of the nuclear family. This paper will illustrate how families with dual earning partners and families headed by divorced single parents have become a modern day social norm, despite the taboos that once accosted them. In comparison, this paper will examine how lesbian couples with children continue to be denied access into general social arenas, despite recent empirical findings that contradict damning generalizations.

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". Intervention against personal liberty cannot promote utility. Even if it were granted that a proper intervention against individual liberty would maximize an individual's productive capacity, then men merely might gain more food, better houses, and an increase in total wealth. However, such men would not use any of their human faculties that separate them from animals; these mechanized unthinking imitators would have as much inherent human worth as an automaton. In contrast, the man who exercises his liberty to choose his own plan of life, even if less productive than that which could be centrally directed, uses all of his faculties: observation, reasoning, judgment, firmness, and self-control. Because "it really is of importance, not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it," increasing our available material goods undermines utility if it requires the wholesale conversion of men into automatons or apes (962). Indeed, the liberty to deviate from societal norms, the requisite for individuality which produces well-developed human beings, as opposed to ape-like automatons, certainly yields maximal utility, for the most well-developed person has become the best human that he can possibly be. "

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This paper begins by exploring the Montessori Theory in current and historical perspective. The paper then proceeds to explore psychic deviations with Montessori perspective and the consequent process of normalization.

Tags:montessori, theory, deviations

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"Given that we do not know the standard deviation of the values presented in the data tables; we are to utilize the T-test. This test is represented by the formula: Xbar-mean/standard deviation-the square root of N . The data presented for both the entire population N=100, the data for the Females and the data for the Males do not indicate the standard deviation. Therefore, the t-test is appropriate in this instance"

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Statistical Analysis of Wage Data Part A Given that we do not know the standard deviation of the values presented in the data tables; we are to utilize the T-test. This test is represented by the formula: Xbar-mean/standard deviation-the square root of N The data presented for both the entire population N=100, the data for the Females and the data for the Males do not indicate the standard deviation. Therefore, the t-test is appropriate in this instance. Part B

Tags:stats, analysis, tests

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This paper provides an overview of the life and works of the great philosopher Immanuel Kant and will attempt to understand how Kant's philosophy of reasoning deviated and synthesized that of his philosophical predecessors.

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Emmanuel Kant's name is one of the bywords for intellectual rigor and ethics in philosophy. But an equally important part of the body of his work is Kant as a great synthesizer of the great philosophical writers of the pre-existing period. Rather than concentrate on Kant's ethical judgments, this paper will attempt to understand how Kant's philosophy of reasoning deviated and synthesized that of his philosophical predecessors. Such an understanding will better enable a reader to understand Kant's ethical imperatives and the reasoning behind them

Tags:reason, ethics, knowledge

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Paper discusses Elizabeth Krause's work on Chinese immigrants in northern Italy (2005) in relation to Ellen Oxfeld (1993) study of Indian Hakka Chinese community in Toronto. Both are ethnographic but Oxfeld's is superior in terms of not deviating as Krause does to discuss birthrates and global migration flows; Krause's work is also Extremely autobiographical as student ventures does not help a knowledge of the Italian Chinese; reference to two theoretical papers; others.

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Chinese Immigrants in Prata & a Hakka Chinese Community in Toronto. Introduction This paper examines two works on Chinese immigrants to Western societies using basic methods of ethnography in detail-specific attempts to explain the Chinese immigrant experience. One volume seems more concrete than the other as encouraged thought on why this might be so, what a researcher should aim to accomplish, or how one like to develop as a scholar. Elizabeth L. Krause's study, A Crisis of Births - Population Politics & Family Making in Italy is the result of fieldwork in the northern province of Tuscany's city of Prata north of Florence. (2005) The volume opens in a

Tags:krause, oxfeld, italy, cda hakka

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This paper discusses the way in which Shakespearean Comedy has been formulated by elements of plot that are viewed as typical. It provides a brief outline of Shakespearean Comedy and explores the plot elements of the green world, multiple intertwined plots, disguise, mistaken identity and the conventional young lovers. It shows how many plot sequences, seen as typical to comedy, are demonstrated through Shakespeare's various stock characters. The paper then demonstrates how Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" is one of his plays that presents slight deviations from this typical structure.

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"Since its origin, Shakespearian Comedy has developed having specific and identifiable elements viewed as typical, in regards to plot. Much Ado About Nothing contrasts the other comedies. The setting is not in the magical green world and there are two plots. The young lovers do not demand and obtain the role most interesting to the reader and the 'placing of the comic initiative in the hands of its vivacious heroine Beatrice' not a servant. Beatrice and Benedick appear to captivate the comic progression of the play and other than Dogberry present most of the absurd, wit and humour. The basic foundations of Much Ado About Nothing centre on the typical progression from of conflict to a happy resolution that ends with two marriages not just one. Don Pedro, the disturbingly sinister character for a comedy, is expelled, all is forgiven and society is restored to its festive note. 'Strike up, pipers.'"

Tags:disguise, identity, lovers, characters

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The paper explains how state constitutions tend to show deviation from the structure of federal rule maintained by the U. S. Constitution. The paper describes how, in the case of the Nevada State Constitution, there is ample evidence that this document sets forth a policy of law that is far more democratic in tone and in application than the constitution. The paper further discusses how there are strong similarities between the two documents, both, for example, stress the rights of the citizenry and even focus on issues such as the right to assemble and a citizen's ability to refuse to quarter other citizens in their homes upon order from the government.

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"It is generally understood that the United States is built upon the principles of democracy, in which the majority consensus of the citizens helps to define the shape of issues or elections. However, in assuming that the Constitution - the document upon which such practices are founded - is inherently democratic is only partially accurate. Indeed, it has been frequently argued that the U. S. Constitution is representative of the rule of law from a federation as opposed to a pure democracy; in a federation, elections occur among the majority of the citizenry but this process results in elected officials who then determine the direction of the country. In short, a federation transforms a democracy from the rule of the many back into the rule of the few, with the "few" in this sense being the elected officials selected through an elections process."

Tags:constitution, nevada, democracy

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The essay uses psychoanalysis as a method of comparative discourse, in order to see more clearly the variances and motives between Shelley's and Branagh's texts. The author claims that while Branagh's adaptation affords perhaps the most accurate retelling of the plot of Shelley's text, the lens by which he interprets the tale bends the focus, elaborating upon certain underlying narratives while suppressing or overlooking others. The essay maintains that "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" demonstrates an attempt to revise and rewrite the story in order to place emphasis on more culturally masculine concerns and anxieties, and is far from being the definitive cinematic imagining of Shelley's work. Moreover, he feels that by looking closely at key deviations in Branagh's interpretation and presentation, one can observe a systematic re-envisioning which seeks to displace and usurp Shelley's argument against masculine ideals.

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"Stephen Behrendt contends that Victor Frankenstein and his monster reflect Mary Shelley's anxiety over the public role of authorship in a male-dominated society. As objects of discourse, women were continually reminded of their "proper" and "natural" place in private familial and public extrafamilial interaction" (Behrendt 71). Victor's "unnatural" process of creation a man assuming the maternal role of biological life-giver mirrors Shelley's socially constructed sense that she behaved unnaturally in assuming the role of artistic creator. Victor's hysteria and the Creature's disfigurement embody Shelley's horror at her own articulation a horror unconsciously generated by the dictums of a patriarchal world. Victor demonstrates his hysteria when he confesses that "a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labor, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings" (Shelley 162). "

Tags:differences, hysteria, revisions, shakespeare, creature, female, maternal, creator, male, feminine, patriarchal, paternal