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Essays 1981 - 2010

Language and Thinking

A major debate for decades has focused on whether or not language shapes thoughts. Can language influence thoughts so much as to s...

Sacrificing Liberty for Security, 9/11 Restrictions

This argumentative essay states a position against the restrictions imposed under the Patriot Act due to 9/11. At the end of the e...

Homer's Iliad, A Political Perspective

This paper discusses the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon from a political perspective. Three pages in length, two sources ...

Homer's Iliad, Questions

This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...

Limiting Web Site Porn

Internet pornography accounts for $2.5 billion of the $57 billion pornography market. The Web has made porn easily accessible by i...

The Iliad and "The Knight's Tale"

This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...

Who's to Blame? Failure of the Bovary's Marriage

This essay examines the question of who is to blame for the failure of the marriage between Emma and Charles Bovary. The writer pr...

The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone

after a lifetime devoted to the pursuit of truth and virtue, Socrates, at age 70, was put on trial in Athens and charged with dish...

Acitivity Based Costing Explanation

In six pages the operation of activity based costing is discussed in an argument that it is more accurate than other methods of ma...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Mental States' Presence and Artificial Intelligence

In five pages this paper considers a person with an electronic brain and whether that can be regarded as possessing a mental state...

Novelists Will Never Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence

the realm of artificial intelligence, there are two primary theorists whose works should be explored in honing in on the major deb...

The Practice of Trying Juveniles As Adults

by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...

Friendship Poetry of Katherine Philips

Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...

Arguing in Favor of Unionizing and Legalizing Prostitution

and there is a large underground market for it. The sex industry continues to flourish despite the laws against prostitution. ...

The Acid Rain Phenomenon

of view, he or she will want to offer both sides of a debate and then show the reader why they have made the choice they have rega...

The Different Yet Similar Views of Walter Berry and Lewis Thomas

This paper examines two convincing arguments that mankind is not that dissimilar from the lower animals that live among us. The gr...

A Failed Safety Policy, Zero Tolerance

This paper presents an argument that asserts that zero tolerance policies have been ineffective in the nation's schools. Ten pages...

Medical Marijuana Debate

This paper presents an argument in favor of medical marijuana. The writer discusses the positions in this debate, both pro and con...

Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment

This essay discusses and offers an argument in favor of gun control. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

Article Criticism and Rebuttal of Marxism

Louis Blanc (1811-1882) gets the credit for the Marxist line about "from each according to his abilities; to each according to his...

Jeff Shaara's 'Rise to Rebellion'

ourselves that they were involved in some negative reality or another, wondering if the author will present this information. Shaa...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Domestic Violence, Children Witnesses

This paper pertains to domestic violence and its negative effects on child witnesses. The writer considers the issue of whether w...

Nature, Nurture, and Individual Behavior

extend their lives, and in some cases may even, in conjunction with available medicines, send the cancer into remission. Doctors c...

Spain, Crime, Employment and Education Benefits

growth. This is the case even under conditions where an educated individual must wait some time before obtaining work, which seems...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

Christianity and Constantinople Emperor Justinian

Augusta Euphemia. He had adopted his elder nephew who took the name Justinian. Justin began his reign by executing Amantius and Th...

Why the Death Penalty Should not be Abolished in Georgia

the statute was unconstitutional in its application" (p.132). There had been 5 people exonerated on Death Row in this state, but...

Review of Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism by William H. Swatos, Jr.

located not only in individual sentiments, but also in many world institutions" (Swatos 288). That globalization, fundamentalism ...