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A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

Works of David Carson

even know such a field as graphic art existed until he was 27 years of age and up until he became involved in art he was a profess...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

Daily Life of the Ancient Romans (Book Review)

contrast the modern day with ancient times. If he does have an argument, it might be that people are not so different throughout h...

A Review of Eyewitness to Power

A 5 page review of the book by David Gergen. 1 source....

Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation

In three pages this paper compares Market Segmentation by Art Weinstein with Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination and David...

Theodore Levitt's Marketing Imagination

In three pages Levitt's text is compared with others on the subject such as Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation and David Ogilvy's...

The Abandonment of the Jews by David Wyman

In eight pages this text by David Wyman is analyzed in terms of a discussion of the opinions expressed by the author....

Jacques-Louis David

of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...

David Auburn: "Proof"

obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

The Un-Human Enemies of Beowulf

The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The writer argues that in Fahrenheit 451, the burning of the books symbolizes the end of civilization. The writer uses the perspec...

A Human Mind Inquiry

Thomas Reid's philosophical perspectives are examined in this paper consisting of nine pages in terms of perceptual senses, visual...

Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...

History, Human Nature, and Psychology

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Thomas Nagel, Peter Unger, and David Hume on Skepticism

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

Ideas According to David Hume

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

David Hume, Atheism, and Immorality

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

Knowledge of the World as Perceived by David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...