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Essays 871 - 900

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Thucydides, Horace, and Plato on the Ancient World's Conflicts and Pressures

In five pages this report examines the similarities that exist between past and present world conflicts. Three sources are cited ...

Desalination: Making the World's Ocean Water Consumable

Within four pages, the author looks at how to make ocean water consumable and why it would benefit the world for this to happen. T...

The World's Economic Performance of 2010 with Specific Attention on Dubai and Abu Dhabi

2010 has been a general year of recovery. The general global economic performance of 2010 is discussed, considering the overall gr...

Hydraulic Fracking - Yes or Np

America's energy production system has not kept up with demand, which has led to importing more and more foreign oil. This needs t...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Disillusionment Reflected in Art Between the First and Second World Wars

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Overweight Youth

Over the past thirty years, the number of children who are overweight and obese has more than tripled. This is a very serious prob...

War of the Worlds/H.G. Wells

This essay provides analysis of War of the World by H.G. Wells. The writer asserts that Wells' perspective conforms to the princip...

Power and Pathos/National Gallery of Art

This paper describes an exhibit currently be shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibit features ancient...

Students Are Note Learning Languages

In today's global world, it is necessary for businesspersons and others to be proficient in at least one other language, yet, enro...

How to Help the Most Helpless in Sierra Leone

One of the most impoverished areas in the world, Sierra Leone is in need of what most people would consider the basic necessities,...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Overview of a Postmodern World

the later part of the 20th century as the world saw two world wars and numerous small wars such as the Korean and the Vietnam wars...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

Tsunami of December 2004 and Its Economic Consequences

a member country on their list. The tsunami affected many poor regions that relied on tourism. Some of these nations are consider...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

Treaty of Versailles and the Problems It Caused

Britain (2001). Those were the key players in the war. It was a treaty that was based on an agreement made by the "Allied Nations"...

Comparing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

from Christian forces, one of the first actions that they took on occupying the city was to allow Jews to reenter Jerusalem, havin...

Are People Better Off Today than a Century or More Ago?

may find that it was far easier to live in the past regarding our health. One author notes that a hundred years ago people gener...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Overview of the Black Plague

disease he was now apparently immune to. It is interesting and informative to note that Tuchman and Defoes work exist in very d...

New World Disorder by Todorov

the Bush regime as "of the original Trotskyist and Marxist formation", a somewhat surprising observation perhaps in view of the lo...

Boutros Ghali's Peace Agenda

the former truly reflect the latter" (Iraq : Power Sharing and Its Discontents, 2004). While difficult, this topic seems incre...

Marxism Lives On

his theory, there is more than just home ownership that is valuable. After all, a critic might contend that Marx was bent on provi...

Climate Change Negotiations and Political Posturing

they assert that "it is absolutely essential to reduce carbon emissions in developing and developed countries to 40% of 1990 level...

Terrorism The Worldwide Impacts

new hires and even for promotion within an organization in our terrorist riddled world. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (2006) warns...