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Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

War in Literature

In four pages this paper contrast and compares how war is depicted in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vo...

JFK's Vietnam Mistake

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Happiness

In five pages this paper examines happiness as reflected in two oppositional views presented in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...

Modern World and Marxism

the utopia that Marx sees as a communist society. Yet, the final three parameters of this human journey involve capitalism, social...

Ancient Greek Mythological Heroes and Episode II of Star Wars

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

Defining a Hero

understanding how this works we present an examination of various individuals, illustrating what makes them a hero. Many argue t...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

The Love of Women Presenting A Different Kind of World

become well-known on stage in the time and place in which both of these works took place were no better than they had been a hundr...

War as a Business

There are a number of other factors that influence a war economy - and many of these are simply not predictable without knowing th...

War Decisions and the United States

to have the approval of Parliament to commit troops to a foreign country, the President of the United States does have a certain l...

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

Cold War and Great Britain's MI6 Intelligence Agency

Magazine, 2004). Furthermore, by the end of the war, American and British intelligence were involved (along with the Vatican) in r...

Cold War and Soviet Intelligence Community Success

that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...

A Review of Two Books on Poverty by Newman and Gans

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

Lack of Justification for the Iraq War

the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said: "Knowing now what I know ...

Overview of King Philip's War

they were so vastly different in how they lived and how they saw life, with many colonists believing it was imperative that the Na...

2 Perspectives on Third World Sweatshops

globalization are prompting the move of many American factors to locations outside of the U.S. borders. One of these factors in t...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...

Russian Standard - Vodka and Banking

Functional brand attributes which were communicated effectively to the customers incorporated these heritage aspects along with qu...

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Inevitability of the Cold War

the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

War Principles and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down

This paper applies war principles to Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down in seven pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....