The Nature of Human Aggression
A Message to the Nation in Time of War
Text of president's Nov. 8, 2001 address
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mental inconsistency to repress primate dominance behavioural to exhibit pointless delinquent to inculcate pugnacity riot property affluent primate original sin to violate |
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AGGRESSION Always write an English word. 1. an attack not caused by anything done or said is an unprovoked attack. 2. something which is no longer used or out of date is obsolete 3. sich beziehen auf - refer to 4. an inner urge or force which makes you do something - drive 5. everything around you is the environment 6. überleben - to survive 7. Er soll gesagt haben - He is alleged to have said. 8. Air and water are necessary or essential or vital for life. 9. another word for to make a difference - to distinguish 10. We strive toward obtaining (getting) food. 11. Darwin wrote a famous book: "The Origin of Species "(Arten). 12. Streben nach z.B pursuit of happiness 13. Rückzug - withdrawal 14. Aplace which offers you protection e.g. a hut or house is a shelter 15. If you destroy something you are destructive 16. Leistungsdruck - pressure to do well 17. The separation of husband and wife is a divorce 18. to hurt - to injure 19. Something very foolish is a folly. 20. You end your life by committing suicide 21. giftig - poisonous 22. Human beings, apes and monkeys are primates 23. Vorherrschaft - dominance 24. Aufruhr - riot 25. Something which belongs to you is your property. 26. This is a further (weiteres) detail. 27. Drogenmissbrauch - drug abuse 28. Your grandparents and great grandparents are your ancestors. 29. something is with little or no sense, it is pointless 30. a person, especially a young one, who commits a crime is a delinquent Why is it a difficult task to write about human aggression? It is difficult to write about human aggression, because it is such a multi-facetted topic. In the first place, the meaning of the word has changed within the last 2000 years from simply "to approach, an approach" to an "unprovoked attack". Furthermore you can look at it from different sides: a biological and a psychological one. Finalyl, there are so many forms from "biting your fingernails" to "commiting suicide". These are only a few aspects making it difficult to write about aggression. |
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commit suicide regard as the failure, to fail to/the blame survivor to survive the survival human dignity worth doing something Jewish the loss, to lose loose rather than Christianity to/the attempt
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fraction the threat, to threaten the hint to fit in artist poet musician to/the increase to/the decrease to outnumber the/to volunteer to convert the belief(s), to believe frequent crisis, crises (pl) injury, to injure |
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treachery gruelling (AE) to /the sacrifice to forego obligation impregnable to sneak up feat deception to administer perpetrator to resort to the/to conquest vengeance |
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