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Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Chapter Two of Ulysses by James Joyce

Stephen in relation to the how his character was established in A Portrait. In the previous novel, Joyce pictured Stephen as bein...

Organizations, a Critique Critique of James March and Herbert Simon's, "Organizations":

that they are essentially useless in terms of instigating action because they are far too vague to be of real use. For example, h...

James S. Trefil's Theories on The End of the Universe

of generalities. We know, for example, that a train will leave the station but we do now know precisely what route it will take t...

Personal Exploration Through Biography

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

What Defines Americanness in American Literature

great master and not presented anything really new. As this illustrates, among other points, Emerson present a distinctly American...

Comparison o f William James' Verification and John Dewey's Experience and Inquiry

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

'Daedalus Myth' and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

him all his life, what he had been groomed to do. To not become one would mean breaking free and telling everyone he knows that h...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

James Conlon's Commentary on Plato's 'Scala Amoris'

individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...

Washington Community's Importance According to James Sterling Young

that is often referred to with awe and reverence. The framers are still held high in esteem. In fact, they are called "framers" wi...

Letter of James and Martin Luther

the discovery that "the just person," who is referred to in scripture (such as Roman 1:17) lives by faith and justification pertai...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

P.D. James Vision of the Future

either. Theo and Julian: Their relationship is very different in the film than it is in the book, so it depends on which one is u...

Farewell to Manzanar

She further notes how her mother worked every day and he stayed home and she was "ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, fo...

Themes of Darkness and Light in Sonny Blues

young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...

Presidential Performance as it Relates to Character

Barber makes one fact exceptionally clear. That is that the characters of the men who have held the office of the U.S. Presidency...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

Capt. Cook's Death/Sahlins-Obeyesekere Debate

the issues and points involved, this writer/tutor will offer the student investigating this subject suggestions on how this debate...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

"Federalist #10" and the 'Tyranny of the Majority' Views of James Madison

of minorities. He explains, "When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government on the other hand enables i...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

Wilson on Gun Control

as dangerous as people make out; and that incidents in which people have shot members of their family by mistake are overstated. ...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Two View of Justice Based Ethical Systems

Five (Tong and Williams, 2009). She objects to the traditional conclusion that women are not as morally developed, on the whole, a...

Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

Motivation and How it is Impacted by Emotion and Arousal

as a due date on a term paper or an unexpected phone call from a relative that is planning on making an unplanned visit might be e...

Michener’s Chesapeake

that he does not enjoy or desire. His values are apparently different than his tribes and he leaves his tribe because of the warri...

Hate Crimes Legislation

history, and how politics and media have affected it can help shed light on this relevant issue. The Hate Crimes Prevention Ac...