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A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

The Need for Social Housing

The writer looks at the way social housing provides affordable housing in the rental market. Despite arguments that the policies ...

Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Mythos

One more type of proof has been added to Aristotle's three means of proof in a debate or argument. It is Mythos. All four are expl...

Shame and Violence

The writer looks at the argument proposed by Gilligan, that shame is the dominant cause of violence in the US. The writer argues ...

"Human Freedom and the Self" by Roderick Chisholm: An Argumentative Essay

Professor Chisholm's argument and counterargument are presented in a paper of 6 pages that ultimately supports the philosopher's c...

Social Security Privatization - The Debate

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Social Security privatization. The paper presents arguments against privatization. ...

"To Catch a Predator" and Ethical Broadcasting

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at ethics in broadcasting. Arguments are made against the broadcasting of exploitative...

Eastern Europe after WWII, Nationalism, Ethnic Violence, Anti-Semitism

This research paper considers issues such as nationalism, ethnic violence, and anti-Semitism in regards to Central and Eastern Eur...

Prochoice v. Prolife

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

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...

The Conflict between Socialism and Capitalism

It has been argued that the practice if growth and wealth creation cannot be undertaken at the same time as the redistribution of ...

Can IKEA Remain Successfully Expand into New Markets?

et al, 2011, p261). The consumer is part producer, as they do not go to a traditional furniture store to purchase the goods, but t...

Firoozeh Dumas' "Sweet, Sour, and Resentful"

example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...

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...

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 ...

Healthy People 2020 and the PPACA

Medicare and Medicaid and reforming private insurance (DeVille & Novick, 2011). For example, PPACA mandated policy prohibits cos...

Feminist Analysis and Antigone

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...