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God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

The Transformation of Major Central Cities

7 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of major cities. This paper looks at the proce...

Concepts of Saint Thomas Aquinas

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

Justifying Moral Claims

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Compare and Contrast Two Arthur Miller Plays

This 6 page paper discusses the Arthur Miller plays Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge. The writer argues that in both...

Suicide as a Result of Betrayal and Loss of Trust

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

Politics, Organizational Culture, and Anthropology

In ten pages this paper consider organizational culture and politics from an anthropological point of view. Ten sources are liste...

Overcoming 'Tragic Flaws' and Predestination in the Beliefs of John Calvin and in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

Matthew Fox and Socrates

purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Notes

In four pages this paper examines Douglass' narrative in terms of impressing upon white readers his situation as a slave in the So...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

Age of Reason and Empiricism's Limits in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

Globalization and Prevailing Perspectives

and wrong become warped (McDermott, 1998; Beaman, 1998). Each of these changes can, to a degree at least, be associated with glob...

Classrooms, Technology, and Teacher Education

may inevitably have to use. The Problem Statement Increasingly, the use of microcomputers in the classroom setting has bee...

The 'Political Animal' Known as Man According to Aristotle

parallels between the relationship of the monarch to his people and the statesmen to the free citizen. Similarly, Aristotle also...

Contrasting and Comparing Theories of Public Education

to those in public schools, but the testing does not always bear this out. From a study of Giarellis chapter, it seems likely tha...

Central Themes of 'A and P' by John Updike

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

Psychologists George Kelly and Sigmund Freud

simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to de...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Overview of Consumer Culture

Consumer culture is the focus of this overview of eight pages that examines it from the theoretical perspectives of Veblen Thorste...

Baby Rena and Euthanasia Ethics

bears no resemblance to euthanasia, aside from the fact that both end in death. Guroians Position Guroian maintains that fo...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Property as Defined by Edmund Burke and John Locke

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

Crime 'Benefits'

fact that some individuals are more advantaged than other in regard to the types of environments in which they live. There are, i...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Japanese Historical Meiji Period

the other religions of the land. This, he believes, is a wise move, and it would seem to echo what was happening in England at the...

European Union Membership of the Czech Republic

necessary in order to meet EU requirements (Miko, et al, 1998). Meeting the environmental requirements of the EU proved to be one ...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...