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Essays 1681 - 1710

Society and Humor

Twains Letters From the Earth or John Irvings The World According to Garp. While authors have used humor to convey various points,...

Analyzing King Henry's Statement to Prince Hal in III.iii 93-96 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal was more interested in the gossip at the local taverns than he was in matters of state. Henry IVs cousin, Richard, who became...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Philosophers on Happiness

In five pages the views of Sartre, Hegel, Marx, and Plato on happiness are examined in a comparative analysis of their writings. ...

America After the Bombing of Hiroshima to End the Second World War

glance into the preceding year, into 1945. It was a glance that peered straight into hell. II. Coming Out From Under the Cloud - ...

The Decision to Drop the Bomb by Dennis Wainstock

In five pages this paper examines this text and the author's views regarding the historical weight of certain political decisions....

Constitutional Framers and Checks and Balances

The system that the Framers settled on was that which established and maintained a government consisting of three branches. It wo...

Eleven As Modernist Literature

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Teaching and Philosophy

addition to reviving Deweys ideas, the current revival of constructivism also encompasses the ideas of other giants of education s...

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Feminism in the Nineteen-Thirties

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Different Perspectives on Stephano

She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Homeostasis and Universal Intelligence

and complimentary or alternative therapies (Chang, 2001). Travelbee (2002) in particular recognizes the spiritual dimension of ho...

Inequality Origins and the Philosophies of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the origins of inequality as viewed by philosophers Karl Marx and Jean Jacques...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

Politics, Morality, Law, and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper discusses Friedrich Nietzsche's views on history for life within the context of the statement 'Life is wh...

Gift Exchange and Social Theory

In ten pages this paper examines the exchanging of gifts in this consideration of the social exchange theory from a phenomenolog...

Human Nature as Perceived by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Only after his death was it realized that much of Washingtons attitude was more like the wolf tending the sheep in a sheep outfit....

Copernican Revolution and Immanuel Kant

way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...

Bigger Thomas in 'Native Son' by Richard Wright

while contemporary critic Louis Tremaine disagreed, arguing that Bigger Thomas was, in the final analysis, a positive African-Amer...

The Pros and Cons of Abortion

in particular the capacity to feel pain; 2) reasoning, a developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems; 3) self-...