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Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Article on Human Rights

rights, as such, propose an unacceptably anthropocentric view of the world, which sets human beings at the top of a pyramid wherea...

Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty

light of current interpretations of the Act. The Lord Chancellor (2004), speaking in 2001, sees the Act as a highly positive addit...

Overview of Government Surveillance

this legislation, although it increasing the ability of surveillance in some situation, such as when the Office of Fair Trading (O...

Human Rights Act of 1998 and Property Law

European Court of Human Rights; Lithgow v UK, A102, 8 EHRR 329 involved property. This case was a result of a compulsory purchase...

South America and Terrorism

In seven pages this research paper examines human and civil rights oppression and terrorism in South America in a consideration of...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

Chechnya and Human Rights

2004). Their return was due to the fact that Stalin had died in 1953 and the "deportees were repatriated in 1956, and the republic...

Computer Law Understanding and the Significance of System Administrators

act maybe hard for the system administrators as it is lengthy, with 75 sections and a total of 16 schedules. However, this...

Welfare State in Great Britain and Changes

welfare are in the minority and it is viewed as being an extremely negative situation. In the United Kingdom, people live on gover...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

Importance of Controlling Population

on a global scale. Consequently, we must act both locally and globally to counteract these impacts. One of the most logical mech...

English Suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst

This research paper and one page outline details the life and achievements of English human-rights activist Emmeline Pankurst. Thi...

The Ethical and Legal Issues of Animal Rights

In fourteen pages the controversies regarding the rights of animals are evaluated with the writer concluding that they should be u...

Another Examination of Animal Rights 3

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the ways in which animals are exploited and forced to surrender their rights to which their ...

New Guinea, Nigeria, and Violations of Human Rights

won the national election (Jaffrey 36). But Muslin military forces from the North called for an annulment of the democratic proce...

'Right' of Euthanasia

In ten pages this paper examines the arguments opposing euthanasia and then vigorously supports the prace as human and an example ...

China and the UN's Human Rights Policy

signed by individual nations as State parties. In order to assess their commitments under those covenants, committees meet regula...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Latin America, Human Rights, and the Catholic Church

In eleven pages this research paper discusses Latin American Human rights, and the liberation theology of the Catholic Church. Fi...

Human Rights, Sovereignty of States, and the United Nations

1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping f...

Human Rights Organizations and Colombia

In forty five pages this research study discusses Colombia in terms of the work of human rights organizations and its negative imp...