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Environmentalist Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

that covered human ecology and the so-called "deep ecology" movement. Madness and exploitation Once upon a time, according...

Nature and Cities

a decline in the quality of life. The Report The report presented by the World Health Organization argued that there is a growi...

Work's Changing Nature

and longer work hours for an expanding and urbanizing workforce. Henry Fords offer to pay workers $5 a day for their efforts in m...

Macbeth's Tragic Nature

acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

Nature, Nurture, and Individual Behavior

extend their lives, and in some cases may even, in conjunction with available medicines, send the cancer into remission. Doctors c...

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx, and a Contemporary Concept of Human Nature

the most important fact for the student to understand is what Fromm explains in the following section of Marxs Concept of Man (196...

Nature and the Poetry of Robert Frost

can pay a poet about his or her work is to say that the poetry was "felt, not just read." Certainly, such is the case with Frosts...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

Human Nature and Ethical Relationships

should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

Dante, Boccaccio, Sin, Gender, and Nature

Comedy reflects an effort to find a spiritual solution to that dilemma. Dante wrote this work -- or, in the language of the poem,...

Silas Marner's Didactic Nature

In five pages this paper analyzes George Eliot's protagonist in terms of his didactic nature. There are no other sources cited....

Old Testament God's Volatile Nature

just as many parents find they have to resort to what has come to be known as "tough love," God of the Hebrew scriptures certainly...

A Debate about the Nature of Man, Argued by Hamlet, Beowulf and Sir Gawain

The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...

Studying Gases in Terms of Nature and Experimentation

In five pages vacuums and gases and how they have been studied since the 17th century are the focus of this paper that includes ex...

Concepts of Nature and Wilderness

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

U.S. Constitution's Democratic Nature

In five pages this paper examines the federalism views of Benjamin Ginsberg and Theodore Lowi as presented in How Democratic is th...

Lord of the Flies, Human Nature, and Social Defects

In thirty pages this paper examines how social defects reflect those in human nature as depicted in Lord of the Flies by Golding. ...

Dual Natures of Christ and Christianity

In twenty pages the God and man dual nature of Jesus Christ is examined in terms of differing interpretations with questions explo...

Personality and the Debate of Nature versus Nurture

part of the child is not present, there is little a parent can do to "mold" the child in a given direction. The studies that have...

Human Nature as Perceived by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

Nature v. Nurture and Sexual Orientation

In 7 pages this paper examines heterosexuality and homosexuality differences in a sociological consideration of the age old argume...

Old Testament and God's Nature

In five pages God's nature is examined in Exodus 34, verses six and seven. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Human Nature and Ethics

In ten pages ethical development is considered within the context of human nature with an application of a contemporary situation ...

Candide by Voltaire and the Travelers in Nature

In five pages this paper assesses the relationship between the travelers and nature in the satirical Candide by Voltaire in an ana...

Transcendent Function and Nature in Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper analyzes Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth in a consideration of the t...

The Hereditary Nature of Alcoholism

Supportive Evidence For decades, researchers have investigated the causes of alcoholism; they have looked at learned behavior, yo...

Nature as Poetically Envisioned by Gerard Manley Hopkins

clear the writers intent: to demonstrate the manner by which poetry and ones life experiences are infinitely intertwined. Nature ...

Nurture, Nature, and Psychopathy

In eight pages psychopathy development is examined in a theoretical review that includes antisocial personality disorder and its o...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

The Nature of Documentaries

This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...