Essays 871 - 900
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...
usually associated with the Roman Catholic Pope, his presence does not seem to effect the laws of the government as women in Ital...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...