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1. The methods that a community devises to perpetuate itself come into being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that that community perceives as essential.
2. All communities seek to perpetuate themselves. They apparently do so by preserving their cultural legacy. But when they don't have the ability to preserve all the aspects of their culture, they choose those aspects that they perceive as essential. Thus, although many diverse methods come into being to serve this purpose, they all share one common feature.
3. Moreover, I can feel strong emotions in response to object of art that are interpretations, rather than representations, of reality.
4. The sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.
5. The sex ratio which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted will be favored.
6. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novals, bring to our attention in the process some fascinating and little-known words like James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
7. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors' charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theories.
8. The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1980's that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the United State since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier — that is the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system.
9. The appreciation of traditional oral American Indian literature has been limited, hampered by poor translations and by the difficulty , even in the rare culturally sensitive and aesthetically satisfying translation, of completely conveying the original's verse structure, tone, and syntax.
10. A very specialized feeding adaptation in zooplankton is that of the tadpolelike appendicularian who lives in a walnut-sized of smaller ballon of mucus equipped with filters that capture and concentrate phytoplankton.
11. They were fighting, albeit discrectly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical philosophy and they envisioned their work as contirbuting to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics.
12. Yet Walzer's argument, however deficient,does point to one of the most serious weaknesses of capitalism - namely, that it bring to predominant positions in a society people who, no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards, often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration.
13. Friedrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated from the "social, legal, and economic subordination" of the family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole female sex into public industry".
14. The crrelation of carbon dioxide with temperature, of course, does not establish whether changes in atmospheric composition caused the warming and cooling trends or were caused by them.
15. Although many of these historians have accepted the earlier assumption that loyalists represented an upper class, new evidance indicates that Loyalist, like rebels, were drawn from all socioeconomic class.
16. Because the potential hazards pollen grains are subject to as they are transported over long distance are enormous,...
17. In order to understand the nature of the ecologist's investigation, we may think of the density-dependent effects on growth parameters as the "signal" ecologist are trying to isolate and interpret,...
18. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, nconduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.
19. Under the force of this view, it was perhaps inevitable that the art of rhetoric should pass from the status of being regarded as of questionable worth (because although it might be both a source of pleasure and a means to distort truth and a source of misguided action) to the status of being wholly condemned.
20. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally that hostility between recognizable classes cannot be legitimately observed.