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Rhoads' The Economist's View of the World

flexibility in economics, and again, he includes a blend of other social sciences, demonstrating that economics is inextricable wi...

Is the Weinberger Doctrine Clauswitzian?

by many as a valid model with which to consider the Clausewitzian relationship between wars political aims and its military means"...

Human Nature According to Confucius

those often aligned with Eastern thought. Yao & Yao (1998) write: "Here are yang and yin [two cosmic forces]: thus humans have the...

A Response to Thoreau: “Conscious Endeavor”

The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...

One Classic Argument from The Crito

in a different time and place and almost seems like a fairy tale. Yet, if one were to consider that Socrates was a part of a cultu...

Themes in Trainspotting and St. Urbain's Horseman

can all kick the habit. It is this hope that perhaps propels him to continue on. It seems as if Rents is walking a tightrope betw...

Living Simply: Emerson and Thoreau

complexities that can be lived without. This sort of perspective is further seen in a statement in his work wherein he sta...

Socrates and Machiavelli Compared

do not justify the means. It is what a person does-his actual acts-that is most relevant. For example, in Crito, Socrates argues t...

Considering Affirmative Action

ever wanted to be considered part of mainstream America, "they needed to gain access to all aspects of society through pressuring ...

An Analysis of Frederick Douglass' Narrative

criticized. People like others to agree with them, and so, disagreement is disheartening. In the end, people conform in order to b...

Investment Risk and Beta

shareholders can be enormous. By definition, the movement of the market is 1.0. Beta provides reference to that movement a...

Satire and Irony in Political Literature

nineteenth century. Here, Marx in some sense provides a sense of irony. Marx & Engels (1998) talk about a "great battle between pr...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

Noble's Opposition to Technology

as email. This all saves time. Long gone are the two necessary carbon copies that the typists painstakingly created and filed and ...

I Believe the Children are Our Future

and each successive generation projects shades of the generation with which they were raised. Examples to prove that the children...

Jesus Christ Versus Mohammed

move allowed him to lead a life of leisure rather than one of hard work and he spent a great deal of time "in religious contemplat...

A Critique of the Utopia in the Voice of Machiavelli

course, many will argue with this precept, suggesting that the people should rule regardless. Yet, I believe that the people would...

Kant's Interpretation of Jealousy

more righteous than if one was merely envious of anothers success even if the successful person had done nothing wrong. Of course,...

Donald Trump as a Leader

and TV star, most people are either enemies, bastards, sleazebags or stone-cold losers" (Fitch, 2006; p. 56). Those for whom he h...

The Age of Bede (Chapter Analyses)

lived varied but the author is specific in providing the details: "For just as those who beget children by carnal generation must ...

Denton's Open Ended Questions (Reaction Paper)

follows: "Open-ended questions power academic and social learning. Such questions encourage Childrens natural curiosity, challengi...

Martin Luther King's Ideas About Love

to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding good will as expressed in the Greek...

Brooklyn's Lower Class as Depicted in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

This 6 page paper provides quotes and an analysis of three characters in this thesis paper that focuses on social stratification. ...

Writing Style in Malika Oufkir's Stolen Lives

concur. The audio version of this book is read by Edita Brychta. In Publishers Weekly, Andriani remarks: "Brychtas suave and subt...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

Gender in All Quiet on the Western Front

is fantasizing about sex. All Quiet on the Western Front is an older but expressive work that captures the problem of war through...

Narration and Storytelling

Since the very beginning of human civilization, Story Telling has been an integral part of it" ("Narration: First person vs. Third...

British Telecom; Advertising So the Audience Understands the Message

of campaigns aimed at gaining the attention of the mass market, from the cartoon bird Buzby in the 1980s, the use of Maureen Lipma...

Do Projects Fail because of People and Communication?

of a single or single set of objectives, rather than an ongoing repeated process. For example, planning the building of a structur...