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...difficult to describe such an experience--the diversity of beliefs about God and one's personal relationship with Him can be mind-boggling. Yet the fact that is hard to explain does not mean that one should dismiss it completely as some irrational feeling or a pattern of unusual behavior. It is wrong to completely deny the human need for guidance, one that has such an obvious and simple answer...
With the "domestication" of women, and their consignment to frequent childbearing, patriarchy was born. The cultural pattern found in so many tribal horticultural societies--including warfare, male domination and polygyny--began to take hold worldwide. By the dawn of "civilization," the venerable female tendencies Hrdy tells us are so essential to successful primate motherhood--ambition, ingenuity and sexual adventurousness--had been redefined as immoral or at least "unnatural...
...small salary, he must also assume the role of father figure for Blanche's girls and keep his own sons aware of the necessary moderation between practicality and principles. Huyssen, more so than the other cast members, creates a palpable sense of his age through body language and speech pattern. David Parker's Eugene, who seems to float through the action going on around him, doesn't really begin to develop as a character until halfway through the first act, when he begins to learn about girls from his older brother, Stanley. From that moment on, Eugene becomes increasingly more...
...that the government's crash scenarios need to cover not only a wider array of passenger sizes, but a variety of speeds, passenger positions and angles of impact. So while Friday's modification will please many DOT critics, it certainly won't placate all of them - a long-standing pattern that beleaguered transportation officials have undoubtedly learned to live with...
...said Friday's protest fit into "the overall pattern" of the group's campaign...