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Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Refutations and Conjectures

to favor a theory, Popper believed, was taking the easy way out; only by finding a theorys flaws and weaknesses could it be consid...

Ford Pinto and Product Safety Management

this car alone (Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co, 1981). Mother Jones Magazine, August 1977 issue, blew the lid off of Fords deceit by c...

Aztec Conquest by Spain

goes without saying that many thousands of peoples lives were spared once the Aztec nation was forced to discontinue this ceremony...

Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom

evident. By doing this, then, she draws the reader into an inner examination of what one believes and why one believes it. One is ...

Philosophical Arguments of Lucretius

eye can see as opposed to mere speculation about what might be. Of course, objections would be other theories that for example God...

Movie Review of Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear

In six pages a plot synopsis of Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear is presented along with the argument that in addition to being...

The Importance of Good in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

mean happiness, and he endeavored to prove the good for man by first considering what is perceived as being good, discussing its c...

Justice According to Socrates and Thrasymachus

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

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...

Expression, Morality, and the 'Ethics' of Pornography

dilemma. Smut? Or Artistic Expression? Pornography, which can encompass everything from finely developed...

Goodness of Government According to Niccolo Machiavelli and Aristotle

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

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...

Sex and Gender According to Pampinea in Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Six Argument Schemas

employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...

Japanese Lost Tribes?

that appears to illustrate the story of Isaac, which is recorded in the book of Genesis in both Jewish and Christian scripture. Th...

William Rowe's Argument on Evil

by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

An Article Analysis on Video Game Playing Advantages

countrys urban children, playing "in the woods," or in the local park has become too dangerous, that it is better that they explor...

Assisted Suicide Arguments Both For and Against

same right to humans devaluing human life to a level lower than that if animals. Whereas those against assisted suicide argue that...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Amending the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

text but also encryption devices and other electronic tools, to be copied. The range of purposes that can be cited are wide and in...

Argument that Hamlet Was Not a Victim of Insanity

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

James Rachels and Cultural Relativism

within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL AND IMPACT ON MILITARY RECRUITMENT

(Herek, 2008). As a result, by 1992, the Government Accounting Office pointed out that close to 17,000 men and women were discharg...

CAFTA: PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS

with this agreement, it wont have that much of an impact; rather, other sectors, such as agriculture, construction equipment and o...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...