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thing. Yet, the end product of materialism is not just a comfortable and happy life. Many people try to keep up with the Joneses. ...
In ten pages this paper discusses how psychology has been impacted by scientific materialism reliance with a consideration of chil...
society . . . profoundly agrees with Marxs great discovery that it is social rather than individual consciousness that determines ...
"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...
become. When Western Europe eased its way into Post-Materialism, an entirely renewed perspective of importance and priority took ...
In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...
Such action will surely prove destabilizing. American capitalism impacts consumerism and materialism in another way, by lulling A...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...
the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...
In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...
an agricultural standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The farmer who slaughters and eats his cattle, including his oxen, cannot plow...
Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...
This paper suggests the relationship that has been forged in Canada with the First Nations peoples, relationships relating to deve...
a lack of movement. Families and friends can become neglected or used for competition in extreme materialism. Objects become life ...
they do? This question has been debated by psychologists, research scientists and philosophers for many years. This paper looks at...
however, the experience of individuals living under such regimes in the past may well be useful for understanding and interpreting...
notes how this continual desire to control keeps people anxious and powerless to their own misery, which is exactly why so many pe...
In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...
In five pages the connection between devoid morality and material wealth is examined with the argument being that pursuit of mater...
suitors. Interestingly enough, this particular strategy has not altered since the 1920s. Daisy is about money and the corruption...
Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...
In four pages Karl Marx's life and theories are examined within the context of such concepts as historical materialism, alienation...
were "capitalists." There was obviously trade and money and, of course, there were merchants profiting from buying and selling. Bu...
In five pages the theories of Hegel and Marx are contrasted and compared in a consideration of the absolute idealism dialect of He...
In three pages the eliminative materialism philosophy of Paul Churchland is discussed. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograph...
rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...