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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Significance of the Work Concept

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

American Society Problems

of Navajo and Zuni reservations and this is widely seen and known by most. And, it seems that no matter how educated they become, ...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway's We Were Soldiers Once… and Young

battalion (2/7) in order to hold off the plentiful Peoples Army of North Vietnam (PANV). The following morning, the Peoples Army ...

Edna Bonacich, William Domhoff, and Karl Marx on Class Conflict

it (the bourgeoisie) (Tucker, p. 472). Furthermore, the bourgeoisie "cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instrume...

Satanic Cults

the Supreme Court sees it, Satanism is a religion ("High Court," 2005). It does appear that one mans cult is anothers religion, bu...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Corporate Environment and Illusion

In sixteen pages the assertion of corporate greed is examined from both sides with environment, ethics, and the notion of greenwas...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

The Embracing Defeat of John Dower

more familiar, suggesting that the people are not in control and the dictatorships is military style. In other words, force is use...

Senility and Aging

allowing the elderly to stay mentally alert is: "a sense of belonging and purpose"...

Disagreeing with the Assertion That Modern Latin American Neoliberalism Results in Democratization

that the concept of democracy is conspicuously absent from this equation. By its very nature, neoliberal policy is responsi...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

Identity in 'The New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster

to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

A Vietnam War Overview

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

Justice Concept

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

Personal Truths and Beliefs

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

Methicillin Susceptible and Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

hospital and longterm health care settings. Of those who have acquired the infection, most are methicillin resistant ((MMWR, 2001...

Legal Consent, Sex, and the Consumption of Alcohol

the sexual act did not take place. It may only mean that a very bad decision was made that has the potential to cause a great deal...

Trade Unions from an Employer's Perspective

between the unions and the employers it has been argued was merely a symptom of the society in which the unions operated (Kessler-...

Buddhism's Impermanence Refutation

In five pages this paper refutes the notion of time's impermanence in Buddhism. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Student Influence Exerted by Teachers

day out. At the very least, teachers spend anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes with a particular student in the classroom. In many case...

Media Moguls

profitable fashion, it has created problems as well. One of the most obvious and by far the worse of these problems is that it is...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Should the Rich Be Responsible for the Impoverished?

at an outdoor caf? for lunch. As you begin talking, a very articulate homeless person comes up to your table and asks for money. T...