Essays 1981 - 2010
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...
company would earn 33 cents for each day earlier they could get the car in the customers hands. The third one, responding more q...
upon closer examination, flaws barely perceptible by the naked eye could be seen which suggests that looks really are deceiving. ...
how even liberals of the North were surprised, if not appalled, at such a union. In essence, what this film presents us with is a ...
conducting assessments of our environmental performance and taking action toward continuous improvement in all that we do (Anonymo...
from discriminatory practices in the past. The proposed hiring policy of the Kosovo immigrant is a positive action directed towar...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
of focusing on geography, products and services (ADWEEK, 2000). Kliatchko commented that Integrated Marketing Communications has ...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...
power over the peasants in order to maintain the established hierarchy. By instituting yet a second person to enforce the code of...
Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...
for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...
home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...
Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...
abolished. The law is antiquated and based upon religious concepts developed centuries before. THESIS: This paper holds that euth...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
both the keys." They begin to differ when they denote to what the keys belong. Singleton chooses to say "Fredericks heart," while ...
nature of Indian nationalism that was formulated during the colonial period (Rege, 1996). To understand the relationship between...
in the second stanza, as well as the final, "if gentle" confrontation in the last stanza (125). These vibrantly painted verbal ima...
1995). It is only partially true in the United States where there are regional differences. The major emphasis in the United State...
great extent, people still cling to religious notions. The observation made more than a century ago is still valid. Not only that,...
spirituality, the personal, the interpersonal and the public. Dorr then presents the relationship between these three categories...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...
Americans are still relatively healthy, active and capable of living independently as their "young-old age" (33). However, the eff...
In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...
(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....
the very simple reason that everyone is different. This essay looks at one theory, expectancy theory. Researchers and theorists h...