Word: inborn
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...tabula rasa: our mind starts out as a blank slate, and it's how we are reared that determines what gets written on it. Modern science, though--especially our fast-growing understanding of the human genome--makes it clear that both sides are partly right. Nature endows us with inborn abilities and personality traits; nurture takes these raw materials and molds them as we learn and mature...
Exodus believes that homosexuality is not “primarily genetic or inborn,” Davies says. “We believe that its due to emotional circumstances or traumas. I believe there are certain underlying emotional desires and needs that lead to sexual relationships.” Most of the lesbians who come to Exodus have been abused by men, and are turned off from men sexually because they view them as a threat, according to Davies. He says that “the huge majority of men” who come to them had difficulty relating...
...write and not why to write. The conclusion even explains her seeming abandonment of her theories on writing for the criticism of other works declaring that “I have learned that you cannot teach people how to write…all that is inborn, cannot be taught-but you can teach people how to read, how to develop judgment about a piece of writing: their own as well as that of others.” That idea is what separates Gornick’s book from the myriad of texts for would be writers and allows...
...they are bringing a fundamental good (love) into the world. Whether the partners in this union choose their sexual orientation or not is irrelevant to the fact that the two people love one another. (Though it should be noted that the scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that homosexuality is an inborn trait and not a choice...
...McAlester, Okla. A coal miner's son, he represented Oklahoma's Third District for 30 years until retiring in 1977 and twice stood a heartbeat away from the presidency. A pragmatist, he said, "I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy...