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'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"beetle" and the "moping owl." The narrator walks beneath "rugged elms," where the turf is rounded into "many a moldering heap" (...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Analysis of John O'Brien and Herbert Lovett's 'Finding a Way Toward Everyday Lives'

One of the first things that struck this writer in this work was the following: "Too often, however, the inertia of service system...

Geishas

Arthur Golden and then a major motion picture. In 1992, Golden traveled to Kyoto and interviewed Mineko Iwasaki, a legendary, reti...

Scientology and Its Impact on Actor Tom Cruise

its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

Comparative Analysis of Philip Levine's 'Animals are Passing From Our Lives' and Charles Simic's 'Butcher Shop'

Contrasts and comparisons of these two poems are drawn in this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Mike Rose and Young Children's 'Possible Lives'

In five pages this paper examines public education's future and children as perceived by Mike Rose. There are no other sources li...

Themes Present in the Writings of Tomas Rivera

Him, which has serves as "one of the most important works of literature dealing with the Chicano experience in the United States" ...

Putting a Price on Human Life

can we even begin to put a price on someones life? The obscene arithmetic that says Mr. Jones is worth ten times Mr. Smith complet...

Williams' Glass Menagerie/Role of Illusion

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

Allocating Medical Resources in the U.S.

allocated according to need and funds are obtained according to the ability of people to contribute? The answer is more complicat...

Trial by Jury - Inefficient and Biased or an Essential Check on Legislative Power?

principles within a constitution (Conrad, 1998). There has been long term support for the use of juries; in 1953 The Royal Commiss...

Elisha and the Romans

As a Driven Leaf. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of a real person, Elisha ben Abuyah, an early Talmudic scholar w...

Mohammad and Jesus

of God were those of the Old Testament, then came Jesus, whom they consider to be another divine prophet, and then Mohammad, the l...

Seat Belts

"People have long debated whether seatbelt failure problems should make us avoid wearing seat belts altogether for a safer driving...

Augustine Wept for Dido

text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...

Abortion as a Woman's Right Regardless of Circumstances Involved

In this paper consisting of five pages the abortion argument is framed around the book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives' by Jonatha...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera

This paper analyzes Marquez's novel with a focus on whether or not the love he writes about is worth waiting an entire lifetime to...

Comparative Analysis of Canadian Religious Minorities

on similar fundamentalist Christian beliefs, there are marked similarities between the roles that these communities assigned to me...

Aristotle on Inanimate Objects and Living Things

In five pages this paper examines Aristotle's perspectives life in a consideration of his concepts of living things and inanimate ...

A Poetic Explication of 'The Paper' by Merwin

In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...

UK's The Millennium Dome

In 7 pages this paper examines the construction and costs associated with the Millennium Dome in the UK in a consideration of whet...

Budgetary Controls and the Savings They Represent

ascertain in controls may be seen as const effective in controlling a budget we first need to proceed with consideration of what w...

Cybercrime, Privacy, and Security

(McCarthy, 2000). In 1995, there were 8,806 arrests for identity fraud, in 1997, that number rose to 9,455 (McCarthy, 2000). The t...

Lives of Seagulls

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the lives of seagulls in a consideration of their life span, feeding, characteris...

Charlemagne's Life from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the views of Charlemagne's life presented by Notker the Stammerer and by Einhard ...

Global Economy and Worth of Entrepreneurs

In thirteen pages this paper considers the worth of entrepreneurial endeavors not only within their own countries but globally wit...