Nature

The keyword Nature is tagged in the following 3 articles.

Jane Austen's Unnamed Character: Exploring Nature in Pride and Prejudice (2005)

December 12, 2011 - 5719 words | Film and Cinema »

The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice opens with sound rather than picture, but it is not the expected man-made musical score that fills the air. Rather it is Nature’s music: the song of birds, particularly blackbirds. As Lydia Martin’s article “Joe... Read Article »

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Jane Austen Literature Nature Pride And Prejudice Cinema

Selling the 'Wild': Challenges Facing Volunteer Based Conservation Projects

September 12, 2011 - 2792 words | Environmental Studies » Ecotourism

Volunteer conservation is a rapidly growing sub-sector of eco-tourism where fee-paying volunteers travel to developing countries to actively engage in conservation work (Cousins et al 2009b). As volunteers provide the labor and funding for these projects, organizations... Read Article »

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Nature Conservation Volunteering Ecotourism

Hobbes' Leviathan and Views on the Origins of Civil Government: Conservatism by Covenant

December 30, 2010 - 2552 words | Political Science » Political Theory

In his seminal text, Leviathan, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes offers what was then a radically novel conception of the origins of civil government. Hobbes’ ideas of the commonwealth are predicated upon his views of human Nature and the state of mankind without... Read Article »

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Hobbes Thomas Hobbes Political Theory Leviathan Civil Government Social Contract Human Nature