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equated with new technology. Still, this is an old problem. Other issues concern personal protection from biological agents. This ...
well (Bowles & Cooper, 2009). There are a variety of things that affect morale, which are pay, benefits, career development, job s...
Discusses ethics and moral behavior that needs to be considered by a military leader, especially in light of today's situations. T...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...
Net present value is a method used to compare and contrast different potential investments. The process discount future net cash ...
This 3 page paper compares commonalities between today's adult learner and those delineated by the character Jesse Hallman in the ...
This research paper/essay discusses the fact that obtaining a post-secondary degree of some nature is a requirement in today's job...
In 1980, Milton Friedman began a lecture series entitled, What is America? His focus was on whether or not today's America is the ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...