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People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Military Warfare Changes from the American Revolution Until the End of the First World War

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

Lands' End Acquisition by Sears

One group of 16 Lands End executives will be given bonuses that are equal to 70 to 100 percent of their salary if they stay on wit...

Followup Ending to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...

R. Kent Weaver's Ending Welfare As We Know It

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

Foner and Berlin on Slavery's End

national level and then to the local level. In this publication, Foner avoids popular rhetoric and mawkish sentimentality and cho...

Pranks of Tom Sawyer at the End of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

Massachusetts and Slavery's End

us unles it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And thes...

Ending Ambiguity in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

who will stand on her own and no longer stand for physical abuse. Her husband, however, subconsciously knows that he has no pow...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

'The End of History?' by Francis Fukuyama

end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end p...

The Development of the West End and Chinatown Communities in Boston

so-called blighted slum that the city claimed it was, the area was actually described as the "lively, working-class community of t...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

The Purpose and Reason for the End of Communism

years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...

Health Care and End of Life Decisions

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

Nursing Home Residents Suffering from Dementia and Making End of Life Decisions

rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

Quartet for the End of Time by Oliver Messiaen

friends with the three other musicians in Stalag VIIIA: cellist, Etienne Pasquier; clarinettist, Henry Akoka and a violinist, Jean...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Has the Sexual Revolution Ended?

revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...

A 'Howard's End' Marxist Interpretation

or weddings. They live on the compound or they may just visit. Howards End becomes a centerpiece for the story and is symbolic of ...

Ends and Means Justification

of test tube experiments, many drugs would not be capable of being tested in this way. This is an highly debated argument, and for...

French Films La Regle du Jeu, Zero de Conduite, Meaning and Ending

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...