Search results for "Human figure" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Stewart and Reid insisted that human knowledge of particular causes ... Stewart proposed that the human psychology could be studied, not in ...
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  • was an essential and undeniable aspect of human nature and that benevolence ... characterizing it as beyond the sphere of human intellect and therefore incomprehensible ...
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  • the government for failing to implement human rights provisions of a number ... and Nelson Mandela. He became a leading figure in the Velvet Revolution ...
    14 KB (2,056 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
  • nonetheless provided a positive image of human society and social action ... in 1932, who became a distinguished figure in the philosophy of mathematics. ...
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  • to transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption. Food processing ... by the tractor, has practically eliminated human labor in many areas of production ...
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  • for creativity that are to be found in human nature. ==History of the ... naval officers and recruits; the authority figure was perceived to be less ...
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  • David and the other psalmists. No Hebrew figure ever descended into Sheol ... the power of death' (Heb 2:14). In his human soul united to his divine ...
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  • of the poem, most controversially, a figure of Christ is seen in the ... Pushkin, whom he believed to be an iconic figure capable of uniting White ...
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  • As with many Greek deities, Poseidon was depicted as a lascivious ... and his status as a relatively uncommon figure in extant Greek mythology ...
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  • However, Ravana was a tragic figure who engendered his own demise ... on a series of campaigns to conquer human and celestial beings alike ...
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  • Lewis, usually seen as the central figure in the movement, had been ... I era novel, Tarr (set in Paris), and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising ...
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  • ** Black-figure ** Red-figure ** Severe style ** Classical ** Kerch style ...
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  • The river has played a significant role in human history by supplying the ... its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the figure rises to 90 percent of the ...
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  • the face itself. Where a two dimensional figure can appear to follow the ... Human beings have a great amount of bias towards seeing faces as convex ...
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  • – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ... heritage, present essential truths about human nature and right and wrong ...
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  • Yan Clan") which dealt not only with human relations and self-cultivation ... only nine years old, and without a father figure to guide or support him, ...
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  • highlighted the essential precariousness of human life. Like the "Lost ... Bérenger is a semi-autobiographical figure expressing Ionesco's ...
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  • or malevolent, evil-doers dangerous to human beings. Like many similar ... Goblins are grotesque fairies that can range from dwarf height to ...
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  • they natural phenomena, classical texts or human interactions) was said to ... ... In this traditional paradigm, a figure achieves prominence not from ...
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  • kill a person. In metaphorical resonance, human beings readily succumb to ... thumb|right|200 px| Gorgons. Attic black-figure lekythos, ca. 530 B.C.E.]] ...
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