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Everyday Living and Zen Buddhism

and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Dialogue Between Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates on Virtue and Vice in Daily Life

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

A Critical Essay on Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'

This essay consists of 5 pages and describes this text as definitive of the cultural voic that exists in a contemporary life ruled...

Modern Life Issues and Theories of Morality

In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...

Societal Impact of Technology

the combination of industrial productivity and high mass-consumption principles. The crisis of Fordism was essentially a crisis of...

Analysis of Confessions by Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this work s it relates to Christianity and contemporary life. Four other sources...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In nine pages the metaphor and symbolism in the poem 'Snake' are discussed as well as the author's life and the perceptions of him...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Spy Satellites and Their History

(Richelson, 1997, p. 295). This laid the initial groundwork for the construction of a spy satellite, and nearly nine years later,...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Queen of Sciences' Description of Psychology

In eight pages this research paper analyzes Nietzsche's description of psychology. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

Computer Science's Shifting Paradigm

they became more common and more accessible. Shift of Paradigm A favorite saying of Mary...

Approaches to Science, Richard Pirsig's Work, and the Text Science and Its Ways of Knowing

In four pages this paper examines various scientific approaches as featured in Richard Pirsig's work and in this text. Three sour...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Cognitive Science And Information Technology

ability to outreason and outlearn their human counterparts, leaving humanity open to an entirely unknown reality if that is ever t...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

The Societal Rebuff of Anyone Different

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...

World Events, Bias, and Religious Prejudice

In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...