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Odysseus and Models of Heroism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...

Galaesus and Odysseus in The Aeneid and The Odyssey

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

Humanity and Science in The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow

was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries. Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested in...

Contrasting and Comparing Theories of Public Education

to those in public schools, but the testing does not always bear this out. From a study of Giarellis chapter, it seems likely tha...

Optimism and Pessimism

people. They are likely to have a good time because they wanted to have a good time, and likely will have fun talking to people be...

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...

Kant, Saint Simon, and the Possibility of World Peace

is simply ludicrous (1983). Indeed, how can one say that there is peace when war could come about at some point? It is similar to ...

Good, Bad and Their Impacts Upon Odysseus and Gilgamesh

divine perfection, but in more human terms as a willingness to learn from ones mistakes. Human beings are not gods; they are flaw...

What Women Want in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In this simple summary we see that the Wife of Bath is saying that while women want love and they want beauty and they obviously w...

Wolfgang Mozart's Opera The Magic Flute and Its Depiction of Women

is angry she escaped and he is angry that he did not get what he wanted, sex from Pamina. This clearly establishes an attitude tow...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

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...

Comparing John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft's Ideas About Female Emancipation

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

Iron Cage Analogy of Max Weber and Bureaucracy

frustrated at the rules and regulations that are only altered at the whim of elected school board members, but in effect rarely ch...

Property Rights and the Political Philosophy of John Locke

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Human Existence, Civilization, and Philosophy According to Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud

to the fact that mitigating factors defined by either pain or pleasure in childhood often shaped behaviors in adulthood. ...

Social Capital and TV

capital. Putnams thesis is that television as a whole is responsible for the erosion of social capital, but Norris (1996) claims ...

Point of View in Amy Tan's 'The Rules of the Game' and in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

he urges Jig to have an abortion. Despite the fact that the man repeatedly says that he does not want Jig to do anything that sh...

Comparative Analysis of the Perspectives of Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf

life, that indicates women had some buried anger and resentment towards men, a sort of position that had to become strong enough t...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...