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Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

Public Places and Reasons to Prohibit Smoking

heart attack, according to a landmark study of more than 32,000 women" (Environmental tobacco smoke, 2005). This study found a "h...

Argument: It is Unfair to Cut Veterans' Benefits

crackdown on veterans is the ballooning deficit, which is growing daily as the war in Iraq continues. Ironically, it is the veter...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Same Sex Marriage Argument

individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...

Stan Berenstain and the Bears

for Good Housekeeping (Martin, 2005). The inspiration for their childrens books appears to have been the birth of their son Leo; w...

US Intelligence After WWII

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

Building Utopia

i.e., stagnation; and progressivism, while its "strong on method" is unsure "what they should be educating for" (How to create Uto...

A Re-evaluation of the John Adams Presidency

The laws were not popular and while they had been reversed by Congress for the most part, or were simply not renewed, Adams was co...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

Suskind: “A Hope in the Unseen”

unfair to generalize about the response readers might have to this book, but its also impossible to resist the temptation. The ove...

The U.S. Invasion of Iraq is Justified by the U.N. Security Council Resolutions 660, 678 and 1441

Iraq refuses to comply with its obligation to implement resolution 660 (1990)" as well as other resolutions that had been passed i...

Argument: Blackwater Should Not Be Above the Law

women, children, civilians and anyone who gets in their way (Scahill). In Fallujah, for instance, the American commander insisted ...

The 1970s as a Foundation for Later Changes in World Politics

The change in terms of how the world would view the future was an important change. Since the turn of the twentieth century, there...

Trend Analysis of Wal-Mart

are presented in Table 2. Table 2. Wal-Mart Statistics Item Derivation Wal-Mart 2005 2004 2003 EPS 12 months earnings ? Number...

Licensing Your Product

and Sapsford, 2005; p. A1); Sony had given up the struggle by 1992 (Cusumano, Mylonadis and Rosenbloom, 1992). VHS emerged ...

Insurance Agencies and Sex Change Operations

(Zambito, 1995, p. C01). Gustons research has shown "that courts have forced insurance carriers to pay if the procedure is deemed...

Cell Phones for All

(22.2 million) (Largest mobile phone companies, 2006). Because there are so many plans and phones available, well look just at Cin...

Where is AI Going?

the "solutions to problems are presented as symbol structures," which as weve already seen, are physical patterns that represent a...

Bristol-Meyers and the Ethics of AIDS Research

This 3 page paper discusses the ethical implications of Bristol-Meyers’ use of African villagers in an AIDS drug testing experimen...

The Persuasiveness of Socrates in Plato's Apology

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Abolishing the Insanity Defense

suggest that its special nature puts it in a different class, so to speak, from other defenses that have to do with the causes of ...

Cloning is Not an Option

of cloning. The larger question is, should there be limits placed on science? Obviously, ethics come into play and they take cente...

Overview of Polygraph Testing

(CQT), the Directed Lie Test (DLT) and the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) (Carroll, 2005). When the CQT is used, the examiner "compa...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

Morality's Divine Command Theory

this is the case, then the moral act was morally good independently of Gods will, which is inconsistent with DCT (Holt, 2003). DCT...

Use of Cinematography in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...