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Essays 271 - 300

Paterson by William Carolos Williams

and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...

Personification of Egdon Heath

sense perceptions. Indeed, the Enlightenment served as the beginning of unique aspirations and an original quest for truth, with ...

Human Implications of Dolphin Communication

indigenous peoples that embrace animals. Animals are also an important part of culture. Today, dogs are a part of many families an...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

God's Image and Genesis

under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...

Comparison of Plato's and Machiavelli's Concepts

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

Humanity Formula of Immanuel Kant

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE

such each person contributes much like the spokes on a wheel or the gears in a machine. Even emotion is regulated and defined by a...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Military Ethics, Haiti, and Captain Rockwood

The weight of a mans conscience can be unbearable, as was made quite obvious by Rockwoods entanglement with direct military orders...

Future of Humanity

will always be the case that one partner will dominate(otherwise there is no harmony) the personality coming out on top may tend t...

The Lack of Rights of Children due to Globalization

to be sold for the greatest amount of profit in the "First" world. According to Clifford (1994), in Pakistan, girls as young as t...

Rhetorical Statement Applied to Growing Up by Russell Baker

book Growing Up. None of us are going to be just like another. When Russell is admonished to do something with his life, to grow...

Environmental Issue Depicted in Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

that, themselves, survive because of the reefs. "Reefs need to be managed place by place, and while each place is different, what...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Life's Message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

Male Characters in The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

Threats, Conflicts, and Problems of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so...

A Common Humanity of Raimond Gaita

Recovering "Serious" Morality Because of Gaitas clear willingness to address what most would refer to as the "hard issues," it sh...

Two Narratives on Autonomy and Fate

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

Morality and Charles Darwin's Theories

which the young born to any species compete for survival is only part of his much larger concept regarding how human beings have d...

Globalization's Human Benefits

engineering, from the conditions of financial stability to environmental degradation, the fate and fortune of each of us are thoro...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

Defining Crimes Against Humanity

This paper is an investigation of how the term crimes against humanity has been defined and the extreme variability in that defini...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

NATO Just War Against Serbs

There are several issues discussed in this essay. Examples are given of cruel treatment of prisoners of war, how the Bush Doctrine...

The Wrongs of Multiculturalism

This paper concentrates on delineating the wrongs inherent in the growing emphasis on multiculturalism in Canada. Humanity as a w...