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Forms and Recollection in Phaedo by Plato

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

Economic Growth and Inventions

1836. The beginning of this coincides wit the revival of the economy and the return to prosperity. The end of this increase is see...

Whistle Blowing Cases

(Nyberg, 2003). However, when we learn that the claim was made with a demand for $45 million the integrity appears to lose...

A Sample Appellate Brief Case Study

In six pages this paper presents an appellate brief sample that is based upon a student supplied New York case study of search and...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

Was Eliminating the Glass Steagall Act a Good Idea?

have addressed, Glass-Steagall served to establish financial regulations on banks, namely deposit insurance and a separation of co...

Gun Control Support

teachers for nothing more than the thrill of the act has parents and administrators up in arms (Problem 2). Out from all the bloo...

Comparing the Self-Portraits of Female Artists Kathe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Paula Modersohn-Becker

been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...

Single World Government Pro and Con

of World Government" was the only way "peace and justice will be guaranteed" (West Point, n.d.). A world government would bring ab...

Peter Singer's Practical Ethics Analyzed

for this thesis by first indicating that if we have concern for other humans that is non-dependent on their abilities, race or int...

Pacifism versus Just War

nature of war in relationship to what may be perceived by some as the just nature of the terrorist acts waged against the United S...

Comparing Chloe and Daphnis to Callirhoe and Chaereas

Daphnis." Their attraction for each other occurs only when each of them is confronted by new circumstances -- Chloe by the sight o...

A Case Study Featuring AcuScan, Inc.

to make the August launch date but without the required funds. This is both logical and emotional. The logic is based on Pats info...

Clash of Civilizations by Huntington

ethnic cleansing" (Huntington, 1998, p.35). To this author, the world is changing and the fact that terrorism has risen is simply ...

Semantics and the Contributions of Professor Beth Levin

After presenting the main research discussed in each paper and the authors suggestions, this paper will then briefly assess the so...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

Reasons to View the Movie Titanic

state. The fact that the beginning and the end of the story discuss this and use it as a foundation for the story offers the viewe...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

A Business Ethics Case Study

going through a predecessors files, he discovers a secret internal report about the companys new drug Colstop. This drug, introduc...

Divorce's Impact on Children

the authors cited believe that divorce, in and of itself, causes major emotional breakdowns. Psychologist Gary Neuman, for ...

Legalizing Abortion

are not right to lifers, the idea that someone is not born would immediately prompt the idea that the individual is not a person. ...

Exploring Transsexuality and its Modern World Implications

issues involve health and human welfare, paternity and maternity claims, and military and personal-identification regulations amon...

'Of Identity And Diversity' According to John Locke

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

Cynthia Hoehler Fatton's Women of Fire and Spirit

in a different context. There is the need for a point of identity in any relation for those following, something that they can r...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Philospher David Hume

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

Immanuel Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

Hume and Descartes Compared and Contrasted

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...

'Self' and Existence

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

Questioning the Existence of God

from the known. Unless God is already known, logic is of no use. Having discredited all rational arguments for and against the ex...