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Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson,' Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Blissful Ignorance

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

An Article on Subliminal Perception Critiqued

in procedural variation. In this experiment, the researchers recruited 137 college students to listen to a tape of contemporary ja...

Richard Valantasis' The Gospel of Thomas

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

What Would Have Happened in America if William Bradford Had Not Prevailed and Thomas Morton Had?

thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...

5 Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas

be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Theories and Moral Truths

of moral realistic thought and debate. Thomas Hills "Moral Agency Presupposes Autonomy of the Will"...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

world. There was nothing that did not deserve serious inquiry. Not only did the Greek society have a curious nature, but they had ...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell

mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...

Thomas Nagel and Marilyn Friedman and the Relationship between Society and the Self

"out" group is dangerous: its members views are often suppressed (Friedman). From there its a very short jump to oppressing the "o...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

COMPARISON OF EMERSON’S AND FRANK’S IDEAS

bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." Furthermore, he writes "Trust thyself . . . accept the place the d...

1500 to 1700 Social Reform

In five pages 200 years of social reform is examined in a consideration of Sir John Fortescue's Of the Laws and Governance of En...

A Health Official’s Fight Against Smoking

since records have been made (United Press International, 2009). This is down from 21.5% in 2002 (United Press International, 2009...

Where’s That Bug?! Surveillance as Narration

the bug, and that Harry cannot find it unless he steps out of context to consider the way in which the film itself is made (Levin)...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Touching Greatness: The Central Midwest Barry Manilow Fan Club

of our heroes. Indeed, even God is given a lesser status as society reasons Him away and turns instead to science and technology....

Problems of English Society: Defoe and More

Printing, and the use of the Magnet and Compass, which we call Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but fall...

Augustine, Aquinas and Luther/Role of Government

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

Living in More's Utopia

hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. No one is except from this requirement, neither ministers nor magistrates n...

Two Native American Narratives

This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

Father of Gospel, Thomas A. Dorsey

This essay presents a detailed overview of the career of Thomas A. Dorsey, the Father of Gospel Music. Also, the writer describes ...