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?Three Seductive Ideas?, 2002.
A critical review of the book ?Three Seductive Ideas? by Jerome Kagan which gives an unprecedented glimpse into the foundation of human thought.
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This paper analyses section by section ?Three Seductive Ideas? by Jerome Kagan. The book, a blend of philosophy and psychology, focuses on three specific issues that potentially mar the accuracy of empirical studies:The tendency towards over-generalization, the belief in infant determinism and a bias towards a pleasure principle that guides human behavior.
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"Three Seductive Ideas is divided into three sections, plus the Prologue and Epilogue. The first section, ?A Passion for Abstraction,? deals with overgeneralization, what he calls ?loose thinking,? (p. 1). Kagan believes that the general public remains particularly vulnerable to the passion for abstraction because of the basic human need to apply specific knowledge to the world at large. However, social scientists perpetuate this problem by resting on species-wide assumptions and context-wide assumptions. What a laboratory rat can do, we assume so can we; what an eight-year old boy thinks and feels we assume will apply to all others in his age group, regardless of gender or upbringing. These assumptions are particularly harmful when studying psychology because of its prevalence today in popular culture. Kagan hones in on four specific areas where generalization is evident: fear, consciousness, intelligence, and temperament. Entitled ?The Allure of Infant Determinism,? the second section of the book confronts the prevalent myth that the first few years of life leave an indelible mark on our psyches, either scarring or blessing us for life. Kagan refutes this widespread fallacy and supports his theories with ample evidence as he does throughout Three Seductive Ideas. Finally, the third section broaches the notion of the pleasure principle, which is deeply rooted in Western philosophy. In the most philosophical section of the book, ?The Pleasure Principle,? Kagan questions morality and ethics and attempts to formulate a new understanding of what motivates human beings to act altruistically. Current scientific knowledge, Kagan claims, is sorely lacking in all three of these areas, impeding honest insights into human nature."
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The Theme of Seduction in "Madame Butterfly", 2002.
An exploration of the key relationship in "Madame Butterfly" with a focus on the theme of seduction.
1,324 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper focuses on the theme of seduction in the play ?Madame Butterfly?. The writer concentrates on the complicated relationship between Gallimard and Song. The author indicates that while it appears to be the story of a man being tricked by a woman, it later becomes known that Song is actually a man trying to save himself from the new Chinese communist government. The paper concludes by highlighting how the themes of seduction could be accentuated in a production of the play, through the set, lighting and music.
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"In the play the character Gallimard, is seduced by both Song and by his own idea of Song. The seduction of Gallimard is a seduction perpetrated by his own stereotyped ideal of what an Asian woman is and can be for a white man mainly, submissive and by his actual seduction by Song the actor. In the very beginning of the interaction between Gallimard and Song there is the hint of a deception. Song laughs at him when he tells her that she made a convincing butterfly. ?Convincing as a Japanese Women?? she says. (Hwang, 1988 17) Yet, Gallimard must have given her some real indication that he believed that she was a woman, or she was just desperate to win the favor of someone who could give her the information that she needed to save herself".
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Nonverbal Cues as Strategies of Seduction, 2000.
A research proposal for a multi-methodological study on the role of nonverbal cues as seduction strategies in the pre-dating stage.
1,098 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper presents a proposal for a research study that would concentrate on the very initial stage of dating or romantic relationships in which both women and men have not been acquainted. The proposed study will focus on the strategies that both women and men use to seduce the desired counterpart. The proposed study will also look at the habitual usage of nonverbal cues such as eye contact, smiles and gender related body language aimed to initiate the dating process.
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"Much research has been conducted on dating habits within the field of interpersonal relations. Studies on the same have ranged from the initial stages of dating (Riggio & Woll, 1984; Bell & Rollof, 1991) to the following and final stages concluding in permanent relationships (Gaines, 1996). This present study will primarily concentrate on the very initial stage of dating or romantic relationships in which both women and men have not been acquainted. Moreover, the study will narrow down its focus even more, on the strategies both women and men use to seduce the desired counterpart which they are not acquainted to. In other words, the research will concentrate on the very initial stage of dating where both sides have not met each other thus investigating the habitual usage of nonverbal cues such as eye contact, smiles and gender related body language (flipping the hair) aimed to initiate the dating process."
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The Art of Seduction, 2006.
An analysis of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.
1,625 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper studies the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, within the context of poetry as seduction. Specifically, the paper examines how seduction becomes Marvell's art and argument, directed solely toward the object of his affection, his beloved mistress. The paper explains that on the surface, Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress," appears to be nothing more than an invitation for a romp in the hay. However, the paper maintains that there is a much deeper theme that lies at the heart of the poem. The paper discusses how the utilizes casual sex as the vehicle to stress his urgency for intimacy. This urgency, according to the paper, lies in the fact that we should make the most of our lives with the time we have now rather than thinking, or relying, too heavily on the future. The paper details several literary techniques, which the poet employs to illustrate the art of seduction, including persuasion, truth, passion, the aspect of time, and the certainty of death. The paper quotes extensively from the poem in order to illustrate and substantiate its theses.
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"The poet also employs persuasion as a seductive tool, which emphasizes the theme of the poem. The poet's power of persuasion is powerful and, upon first reading, it seems he is using it to advance his own purposes. There is no doubt that this man is in love but there is also no doubt that he wants something in return for this love. However, his power of persuasion is strong and convincing. For instance, the first words from the poet's mouth are, "Had we but world enough, and time" (1). This is a wise approach to his art of seduction because what he is saying is true. His mistress, or no one else for that matter, can argue with this assertion. In order to prevent her from becoming offended, he is also very quick to point out that her coyness would not be a crime if the two of them did have all the time in the world. He goes on to say that they "would sit down, and think which way/To walk, and pass our long love's day" (4-5). Here we can see how the poet is using his seduction technique very wisely in that he is fostering it with logic. The poet does not want to appear to be heartless or simply after sex. In other words, he wants his lover to know that he sincerely cares for her but there is more to their love than she might realize. His aim is to bring these things to her attention and his method is through seduction."
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"Seductions Of Crime" ( Jack Katz ), 1999.
Reviews this work on crime as an evil, amoral, existential, god-like behavior, based on interviews with criminals.
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Jack Katz, in Seductions of Crime, explores the evil of crime as if it were a realm, with its almost sacred aspects, starkly opposed to religion, but at the same time with startling similarities. Katz sees much criminality not as a result of economic need, which most sociologists would argue, but as something more existential, more associated with the transcendent aspect of power, as if criminals were trying to be god-like in their behavior.
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"Jack Katz, in Seductions of Crime, explores the evil of crime as if it were a realm, with its almost sacred aspects, starkly opposed to religion, but at the same time with startling similarities. Katz sees much criminality not as a result of economic need, which most sociologists would argue, but as something more existential, more associated with the transcendent aspect of power, as if criminals were trying to be god-like in their behavior. The author is aware of the sometimes shocking nature of his study, but he will not be deterred. He claims to seek to understand the criminal mind and personality as objectively as possible, but the reader cannot avoid feeling that Katz's objectivity verges almost on admiration at times, or at least appreciation for the criminal mind, personality and behavior."
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Rape/Seduction Scene in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", 2008.
This paper is an analytical commentary on a passage from Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles".
3,590 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 100.95
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The author analyzes the controversial rape/seduction scene in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles". The author notes the contrasts within the scene, particularly between the serenity of the physical environment and the characters within that environment. Also, the author discusses the importance of the ellipses within the passage as an integral narrative strategy.
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"As we read the text we feel that something wrong is to happen, and yet we are held in suspense. Some details we read actually make the reader feel that her having sex with him was unavoidable: she weeps (l 33) as if she were having a premonition that it will happen and were afraid of that, or, lines 19 and 20, "The Chase [is] wrapped in thick darkness, although morning [is] not far off"; it may imply that Tess will have to cope with bad days, hard times ahead. Besides let's not forget the context; Tess has just learnt that Alec had given her father a new horse, so she certainly feels grateful to him for it, and the reader easily guesses how Alec wishes to be rewarded. As for Alec, when he gets lost in the darkness, he is (instinctively?) led to Tess (lines 24-25-26: "he at length heard a slight movement of the horse close at hand; and the sleeve of his overcoat unexpectedly caught his foot. "Tess!" said d'Urbervilles"). It is as if they could not escape from each other, and especially Tess, as Alec is forcing destiny, for example by getting lost with her on purpose. We learn that "Tess's own people" are rather fatalistic: they are tired of saying among each other in their fatalistic way: "It was to be". There lay the pity of it". So we may think it is also what Tess thinks of this event. From line 42 ("why") down to line 44 ("receive"), the narrator clearly contends that it was her fate to meet Alec and to appeal to him and to have sex with him. The question from line 37 down to line 41 ("But, might some day, where was Tess's guardian angel? Where was the Providence of her simple faith?") may imply that her life, her fate could have been different, better, or at least it may be the narrator's anticipation of the reader's reaction, and the following lines might be answer (from line 39 down to line 41)."
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"Seductions of Crime" ( Jack Katz ), 1999.
Critical review of work arguing that robbery is a crime of dominance rather than economics.
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"In Seductions of Crime, author Jack Katz contends that violent crime, particularly robbery, is an offense motivated primarily by the perpetrator's desire to demonstrate dominance. This argument lacks sufficient merit. People who commit robbery are pushed by social background forces rather than enticed by psychological foreground factors. Robbery is first and foremost an economic crime.
Katz focuses on African-American males in his discussion of robbery. The author presents data that clearly show black males disproportionately represented in arrest rates for this crime. Katz contends that "doing stickup" is a byproduct of the ethnic subculture of the streets: "For some urban, black ghetto-located young men, the stickup is particularly attractive as a distinctive way of being black" (Katz, 1988, p. 239). Here, the.."
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"Paradise Lost", 2002.
An analysis of the epic poem by John Milton where Satan is presented as a complex and intriguing entity demonstrating the seductive nature of evil.
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The paper summarizes and analyzes the poem in which Good battles Evil. The paper describes the themes in the poem and examines how Satan is portrayed. The paper shows how Eve is portrayed as weaker than Adam, and how Eve is nearly seduced by power.
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"In Milton?s expanded telling of the story, Satan and his followers intend to use Adam and Eve as pawns to get back at God for casting Satan out of Heaven into Hell. While Adam and Eve have still sinned and must be punished, God and His angels realize that Adam and Eve probably would have followed God?s command except for Satan?s interference, and reveal to Adam the eventual salvation of mankind before casting them out."
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Pre-Code Hollywood, 2002.
The portrayal of seduction, sex and morality in 1933 Hollywood.
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This paper explores the depiction of seduction, passion and female costuming in the Hollywood Production Code of the 1930 era. It suggests that although the code prohibited most sexy behaviour from women, the studios continued to fluant sex in their pictures. It also pinpoints many of the causes of the Production Code of 1934 administration, and discusses the history of the code from it's beginnings in the 1920s to its end in the 1960s.
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"?The complete spectrum of vice, not sex alone, infested the films ? an epicurean spirit of enthusiastic indulgence in activities illegal, forbidden, and stimulating,? meant that by 1930 Hollywood was in desperate need of regulation (Doherty 103). State and City censors passed legislation against certain films, beginning with Chicago in 1907, in response to public protests (Bernstein 1). Censorship boards were established to review and license moral and decent films; by 1922 six states had organized censorship boards (Jowett 25). Hollywood?s self-regulation policies functioned as a middle ground between the industry and their enemies, reform groups and state regulatory agencies (Jacobs 87). The result of self-regulation was the Production Code of 1930; a document loosely outlining the principles filmmakers should follow in order to produce moral films. Sklar writes, that the Code was written with ?the precise aim of uniting religious morality with box-office necessity? (173). This document was based on the ?Don?ts and Be Carefuls? of 1927, an earlier attempt at influencing Hollywood to include less sex and violence in their features (Vasey 104). The Code was divided into two parts; one outlining the moral vision films should contain, and the other a precise listing of forbidden material (Doherty 7). The Production Code could not have arrived at a worse possible time for Hollywood. In 1930 the studios were still making money, despite the depression, but by 1932 theatre attendance had dropped, dragging down the industry?s profits (Black 73). Their initial efforts were mainly motivated by a fear of a boycott during the worst years of the Depression, but once they realized what the audience wanted to see, they could no longer afford to censor potential box-office stars like Mae West (Cook 283)."
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"Betrayed Into Motion", 2002.
An analysis of the article "Betrayed Into Motion: The Seduction of Narrative Desire in M. Butterfly" by Tina Chen.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the article "Betrayed Into Motion: The Seduction of Narrative Desire in M. Butterfly" by Tina Chen. By analyzing the different aspects of performance perception within this paper, Chen utilizes the many aspects of theatrical critique to show Madame Butterflies deviation from common theater tradition.
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Depending on the Future, 2003.
A rhetorical analysis of Marc Stiegler's "The Gentle Seduction".
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This paper analyzes the dangers of technology as presented in Stiegler's popular short story, "The Gentle Seduction." The paper states that technology has dehumanizing and addictive properties and supports this with many quotes and analyses from the text.
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" ?The Gentle Seduction,? by Marc Stiegler paints for us a portrait of what he envisions as the world of the future. While he attempts to portray this future as bright and positive by having us relate to the protagonist who reluctantly but gradually embraces it, the reader finds instead only terror at the thought of a future wrought with increasingly dangerous and dehumanizing addictions, as mirrored by the protagonist?s actions."
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Motivations in "Mansfield Park", 2005.
An analysis of the success of Henry and Mary Crawford's seduction of Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".
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This paper focuses primarily on the methods used by Henry and Mary Crawford to seduce Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram, respectively, and why these methods succeed in some instances-and with specific characters-and fail in others. It looks at why Edmund and Fanny turn down their seducers for a more fulfilling relationship together: After being raised as brother and sister, but only sharing blood as cousins since they have an unparalleled and sincere love which cannot be found or forged outside of the family bloodline.
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"Austen creates a novel version of the morality play in which Fanny and Mary personify the characteristics with which they are associated. Fanny represents every trait that will enable Edmund to live a spiritually enlightened and fulfilling life. Mary represents material and physical temptations that frustrate and prohibit spiritual growth and development. Throughout the first two volumes of the text, Edmund symbolically leaves Fanny to pursue Mary and her overwhelming temptations: Fanny is first left to cut roses under the ascendancy of Mrs. Norris while Edmund teaches Mary to ride Fanny's horse (63-5). "
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Language of Advertising, 1990.
This paper discusses advertising, the seduction and manipulation of consumers through the written word: Symbols, color, status appeal, typeface, setting and implied messages.
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"The use of advertising to sell products has been part of man's culture since the ancient times of Rome and Greece. Today it permeates society at all levels through the medium of print, radio, television, film, video and billboard, attempting to seduce and manipulate the consumer in order to secure or make a sale. The purpose of this paper will be to analyze just what is this specifically designed "language" of advertising, its effect on the buyer, and how it utilizes such elements as the written word, symbols, colors, status appeal, typeface, setting and implied messages,
The 1986-1987 Advertising Red Book lists 3562 advertising agencies in the United States.1 This figure includes the big ten New York agencies down to the two-person shops. All handle three elements within their business: client relations, creative ... "
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Emile Zola?s "Ladies Paradise", 2005.
This paper discusses Emile Zola's novel "Ladies Paradise", named after Paris's first department store, where Mouret exerts his powers of seduction over the female customers, who are depicted as his willing prey.
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This paper explains that, with the character of Denise Baudau, a lowly worker, Emile Zola presents in "Ladies Paradise" a somewhat skewed vision of the struggle between the sexes with this protagonist ultimately obtaining her goal to marry the less than admirable but higher ranked Monsieur Mouret. The author points out that advertising in the days of this novel worked the same way as today: To create a need by implying that women have some defective quality and promising that their product will make them more beautiful. The paper relates that Zola observes that women come to equate the products with their sexuality with its sensual allure festering and growing until they become an addiction for the women that they must have the products at all costs.
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"Consequently, a raging competition ensues and the ladies compete with each other for customers and the attention of Mouret. The shop girls are forced to dress in a certain way in order to be successful, which is by pleasing Mouret and garnering his attentions. If they can garner Mouret's attentions, a shop girl will have the great honor of exchanging sexual favors for the right to do as she pleases at the department store, as Clara Prunaire does. As long as the shop girl can keep Mouret pleased, she is protected from being sacked."
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Women In The Old Testament, 1987.
Discusses inferiority of females in patriarchal tradition of Jewish narration & heritage. Exmines evil & sin, seduction, body v. spirit, subjugation, impact on Christian values, Semitic myths, wife-mother-harlot images and sexuality.
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" Men have had every advantage of us in telling
their own story. Education has been theirs in
so much higher degree, the pen has been in their
hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen, Persuasian
In his book, The Art of Loving, philosopher Eric Fromm claimed that the greatest problem with the world today was that for two or three thousand years, mankind has been worshiping the wrong god and pursuing the wrong ideals. Fromm maintained that, when man substituted God for the Great Goddess, he substituted authoritarian for humanistic values. Man's relationship to God (...)"
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