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The more strongly an individual is engaged (i.e., involved, occupied, fully engrossed) in an activity, the more intense the motivational force experienced. Engagement is of great importance to attain and motivate in order to reach a goal. Engagement serves as intensifier of the directional component of the value experience.
Schopenhauer believed that while all people were in thrall to the Will, the quality and intensity of their subjection differed: Only through the pure contemplation . . . which becomes absorbed entirely in the object, are the Ideas comprehended; and the nature of genius consists precisely in the preëminent ability for such contemplation. . . .
Throughout the Revolutionary War, the engrossed copy was moved with the Continental Congress, [34] which relocated several times to avoid the British army. In 1789, after creation of a new government under the United States Constitution, the engrossed Declaration was transferred to the custody of the secretary of state. [34]
With his 9-year-old son as crew, a 429-mile tour of English canals occupied June and July 1947, including stops to repair the boat's diesel engine and to continue the conversion work. In 1948 he was again drawn to emigrate to Africa (this time to Southern Rhodesia ), where he was engrossed in building up yet another farm when he met his death ...
The artist depicts Barbara imprisoned in her tower but engrossed in her reading of a book with her back against a large open fireplace. Her brown hair is unbound and falling to her shoulders. She is seated on a wooden bench draped with deep red velvet cushions. She wears a sumptuous green dress lined with heavy angular folds.
'Sacrifice' provided a gripping hour filled with laughs, heart, emotion, twists and a game-changing final moment that was as shocking as it was visually cool. I've still got to pick my jaw up off the floor with those closing moments, after having been engrossed in the entire hour.
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.
James Winthrop was the son of physicist John Winthrop, Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, and his first wife Rebecca Townsend.His mother died when he was quite young.