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Teaching Creationism in Public Schools

ostensibly in the interest of superior scientific education (Boston, 2011). Often, these bills have been packaged with initiatives...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

"Some Moral Minima" by Lenn Goodman

Goodman presents challenges to relativism, which is the view that morality is relative and that ethical truths are dependent on th...

A Critique of Imperialism, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of human achievement, both intellectually and morally. This attitude is inherent in Heart of Darkness when Conrad describes the id...

The Perception of the Senses

tastes which are described appear to be experienced in similar ways. For example, those who can taste PCT1 and PROP2 all describe ...

The Individual and Society in "The Scarlet Letter"

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

Employment and the Choices of Women

The creation of an elite female population prepared for varied careers has been the result of the spread of a feminist ideal. If ...

The Jesse Logan Story

verbal assaults as the final straws that led to her daughters death. Even Cynthia Logan maintained that she had no idea that th...

Was the US Justified in Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

When the news reached America that our planes had...

Slavery in the Employment Relationship

their owners. The power all rested with the slave owners and the slaves had to endure the whims of those owners. In todays world...

Refuting the Death Penalty

of the most common reasons given to support capital punishment is the notion that executing a criminal is somehow a necessary act ...

ARGUING FOR TAX REFORM

a closer look at this. A little more than a decade ago, the American Enterprise Institute released a study pointing out that tax r...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

Michael Jackson, The King of Pop

of Pop. He wanted the title. There are musicians who are dubbed one thing or another by fans, and then, as in the Michael Jackson...

Can Women Play a Greater Role in Economic Development?

The writer considers the argument that developing countries are losing a potentially valuable resource by holding back women, prev...

DEBT CRISIS: A PERSUASIVE ESSAY

Sahadi, 2011). Adding more fuel to the fire was the fact that not all Republicans were in the "must lower taxes and raise spending...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

her text Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft takes direct exception with the story of creation in the Book of ...

Prostitution - A Utilitarian Perspective

that its legalization would produce the benefits of a safer society, increased tax revenue, and the empowerment of the individuals...

"The Dumbest Generation" - Exploring the Assumptions

writes early on that "never have the opportunities for education, learning, political action, and cultural activity been greater",...

The Trayvon Martin Case - Deconstructing Media Narratives

what began as an isolated incident in a rural town in Florida has now become an international scandal. The reason for this is that...

World War II and the Debates over Indian Independence

of whether or not continued occupation of India was well-advised. 2. The critics of British rule in India supported immediate ind...

In Defense of Religious Pluralism

of religious pluralism, and argue that contrary to the argument offered by Gavin DCosta, religious pluralism does exist and consti...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Decriminalizing Marijuana - Speaking Notes

pill form of marijuana (Brookhiser 1996, p. 27). Additionally, in countries such as the United States, where expensive health insu...

United States Should Stop Engaging in Wars

The following examination focuses on the cost of war, both in terms of money and lives; as well as the question of whether or not ...

Pro and Con: Are Professional Women 'Opting Out" of Work by Choice?

1. Strengths and weaknesses associated with the Pro side of the issue Linda Hirshman maintains that despite the increased opportu...

Discretion in Policing

must always play a part in police work, discretion is a more arbitrary practice (Bronitt and Stenning, 2011). For example, where a...

Enhancing Aboriginal Students Experience of School with the Waldorf Model

to as the Waldorf model (Grindley and Hampson, 2008). To assess how and why this model may be appropriate some of the influences t...

Overview of Food, Inc.

particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...