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Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Future Water Shortages?

(2001) offers solace, however, with his thesis that water is in fact not only plentiful but also renewable. Lomborg (2001) encour...

Entrepreneurs and Managing Big Business; Is there an Inherent Clash?

venture and assumes the risk for it" (Hyperdictionary, 2008). Timmons builds on this stating that an entrepreneur is someone who i...

The United States at the Time of the First World War

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Sickle Cell Anemia and its Biochemistry

cells which carries oxygen throughout the body, is spherical and soft and as such is ideally suited to traverse the sometimes cons...

European Historical Signficance of Herder's Outlines of A Philosophy of the History of Man and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

citizenry/monarchy relationship was, according to Burke, to secure the districts power over the people as a means by which to main...

Housing in Boston

In essence, the state is offering to take low-income residents and build homes for them where those with greater financial resourc...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

Joseph Chamberlain and William Gladstone

can be of benefit, increasing diversity and as such bettering political decision with constant challenges. It was the challenges p...

Economic Models Monetarism vs. New Classical

level and T is indicative of the volume of transactions (610). It is assumed that V is constant and T only changes slightly over t...

Issue of Date Rape

allow a date rape to happen in the first place (Teens and Date Rape, 2002). Many people, especially young adults, dont feel comfo...

2 Opinions on Globalization

remarks about Globalization in general. He states: "Globalization is a transformation of social geography marked by the growth of ...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

'The Poor' and Changing Attitudes

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was one such man and he wrote of his times, first for a renowned city newspaper (The New York Evening Sun),...

Philosophy of the Pro Choice Argument

reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...

Articles on Society and Gender

gender suspect, or at least something that does not fit neatly into the male/female paradigm. This author expresses a view on soci...

Issue of Ozone Layer Depletion

Antarctic hole had grown considerably in size and by 1999 encompassed an area equal to double the size of Chinas mainland (U.S. Ne...

Reason, Romance, and the Enlightenment

In seven pages this paper considers the seemingly opposing views of romantic emotion, reason principles, and the Enlightenment, wh...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes II

In twenty two pages pros and cons of medical marijuana usage are evaluated regarding its legal use of serious conditions with oppo...

An Article Technically Analyzing the Stock Market Reviewed

In three pages the article 'Technical Analysis Successfully Tests Old Resistance Level of Fundamentalists' that appeared in The Wa...

Banking Industry and Balanced Budget Amendment

In a report consisting of eight pages a rural bank CEO's perspective is adopted regarding issues of 1998 through 2002 economic pro...

U.S. and Capital Punishment

of a stratified society and so are economically disadvantaged. Statistics bear out that there are proportionately more minorities ...

History of the Philippines from Various Perspectives

referred to as the "ilustrados," which means the "enlightened ones" (Bunge PG). The ilustrados began to demand that native Filipin...

FDR's New Deal, Father Coughlin, and Huey Long

In five pages this paper considers the opposing views of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as represented by Father Cough...

Happiness as Interpreted by Aristotle

In seven pages Aristotle's view that happiness was a concept of being as opposed to being determined by external things is examine...

Maintaining or Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

illusion about a nuclear-free world being a safer place and start discussing the real role of nuclear weapons in the 21st century....

Arguments in Philosophy

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

Causality and David Hume

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...