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Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

An Article Analysis on Illegal Immigrants That Appeared in The New York Times

Hispanic Center), during 2001, the "unauthorized" labor force in the U.S. totaled 5.3 million workers. Out of this were 700,000 re...

Family and Sociological Theory

made even in consideration of the fact that alternative families differ in several respects from the traditional concept of a nucl...

Free Will and Saint Augustine

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...

Candide by Voltaire Critically Analyzed

There is also a skewering of the notion that the acquisition of wealth makes all problems disappear and ensures eternal happiness....

The Living Will and Advance Directives

time during which their loved ones are kept artificially alive, or they have to face months of litigation for permission to turn o...

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...

Political and Social History of Greece

in ancient Greece comes to us through their stories, their tragedies. "Greek tragedies dealt with universal themes that are still ...

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...

Economism and Marxism's Vulnerability

own economic well being as their primary goal. Political reform unrelated to this goal should not be their concern. By loo...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Immigration Policy Proposal by the G.W. Bush Administration

20). The premise is that both the workers and their employers would benefit from such a policy (p. 20). Cooper (2004) adds that th...

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Emotions and Expressions According to Charles Darwin

biologically based phenomenon and explains why animals experience many of the same emotions that humans do. Presently, the...

Social and Medical Perspectives on Dying

would be no point where it would be judged morally justified to harvest viable organs from donors (Browne, 1983). It often gives c...

Evaluating Two Buddhism Texts

or Ego" (Rahula, 1986, p. 23). Conze s (1959) Buddhist Scriptures is another book that is rather comprehensive as well. Conze is ...

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Juvenile Corrections Facilities

Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...

A Communities of Practice The Organizational Frontier Article Analysis

to customers, create new markets, rapidly develop new products and dominate emergent technologies" (p. 2). Basically, he s...

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 ...

Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Andre Gide on Freedom

the cellars of the Vatican. Meanwhile, in the Popes place is an imposter. The Countess, of course, quickly antes up the money that...

Twenty Three Questions on International Finance Answered

The equation is Ks = Krf + B ( Km - Krf). Here Ks is the rate of return required, Krf is the risk free rate, usually measured...

19th Century Developments and the Relevance of Social Darwinism

Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present bruta...

Psychotherapy and Holistic Approaches

means by which to inevitably reach the cognition that other minds do, indeed, attain above and beyond ones own. Human perce...

Classical Sociology and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

apartment or services, they end up on the streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not ha...

Success of Armed Prophets and Grief for Unarmed Prophets

This Machiavellian concept is examines in ten pages with Moses being among the prophets discussed. Four sources are cited in the ...

Three Viewponts of Police Unions

the private sector. However, government workers and teachers would soon be recruited to the labor movement (Troy, 2000). Yet, it a...

Love Definition and Research

being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...