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Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

The Russian Revolution Historical Milestone

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

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, ...

Analyzing the Video The Miracle of Life

Each transition flows seamlessly into the next. Clearly, the main point of this video is to detail the development process, and...

Transforming Knowledge and Effective Writing

reader, but it is not likely if the writing is dry or bland. One has to wonder weather or not bland writing is sufficient or just...

Tibetan Buddhism and Gandhi's Satyagraha

BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...

Bill Clinton's American Images

there are different views and images of America. Many take their images from their childhood. What is it like to grow up in Americ...

Nature and Biology According to Aristotle

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

A Position Paper on Montaigne and Descartes

little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...

Comparing Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince with Thomas More's Utopia

or socialism. More realized that it would be hard to find an established model to point to and so he created his own. More explain...

The Anti-trust Exemption in Baseball

most, if not all their careers (Sensenbrenner, 2001). Back then, baseball could be considered in "dire financial straits," and 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...

Promotion by Favoritism

Go and Kleiner use the example of promotions given to employees with "organizational connections" (Go and Kleiner, 2001). In such ...

The Independence of the Central Bank

1999). Thus, the central bank is most generally more anti-inflation than democratic governments. There are both advantages and di...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

On Loving God By Bernard Of Clairvaux

loving God for our own sakes but then, we are able to love God for Himself. Question: Does Bernards work support the notion that...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

"Indian Givers"

would be hard to take in everything at one sitting (Moyers, 2002). Weatherford claims there are literally no areas of modern civil...

Why Samuel P. Huntington's Paradigm is Accurate

Civilizations, Huntington (1998) provides a great deal of insights. He writes: "The weakening of the states and the appearance of ...

Literacy Development in Young Children

any other surrounding circumstances. The difference between a clause and a sentence is subtle, but the meaning and the approach ca...

The Case of the Solar Trash Compactor

already. The market is large, in 2000 there was a total of $1.2 billion spent on trash receptacles, and in 2001 $2.1 billion was s...

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

Myth According to Barthes

are added to language everyday. It helps to note also that fashion designers often take new trends from the street--such as the ba...

Contrasting and Comparing Descartes and Locke

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

Marx's and Plato's 'Just' Society

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Public Space and the Media

seems to think, were sorely left out of the equation when Marx had developed his theories. Frighteningly enough, Habermas foretol...

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...