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Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

'Victimless' Crime and Prostitution

are again those degrees where one is not sure. There are indecency laws where performers have been arrested. They went too far sex...

Poor Handling of a Public Speaking Situation

and realizing that public speaking is a "common source of stress for everyone" (Orman, 2002), I sought the training of an individu...

Seneca's Stoicism

denominator among all mortals. Growing old is an inevitable stage of life that many people fight tooth and nail; for others, howe...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Deadly Character Flaws

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

A Report on Anheuser-Busch

well for nearly a century. There appears to be no need for the company to change many of its organizational structures now that it...

United States and Ethnic Conflict

the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...

Socrates' Life and Relevance

things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

U.S. Civil Right Movement

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

Workplace Equity

workplace issues and discrimination are at the forefront. There are of course laws that protect against discrimination in terms of...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

PC's History and Impact

machine. This single piece of equipment was heralded by PC Week as very possibly being the next industry benchmark. Interestingly...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

(Anonymous Booker T. Washington ... one Americas leading educators, 1995; p. 16). This was because Washington taught a subtle kind...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Camus' The Stranger

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Wartime and Ethical Considerations

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...