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The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

J. Baird Callicott and Environmental Ethics

necessity must be maintained by man but are not included in the overall schema of environmental ethics. This holds true because d...

Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of Duchess Narrators

In seven pages this paper examines the narrator's moral and reader influence in these works by Geoffrey Chaucer. There are no oth...

Prostitution and Perceptions of the 18th Century

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...

High School and Career Counseling

a Christian perspective, biblical references can be shown which indicate that each individual has a purpose and a destiny to fulfi...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Expression, Morality, and the 'Ethics' of Pornography

dilemma. Smut? Or Artistic Expression? Pornography, which can encompass everything from finely developed...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Obligation and Impulse in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

Bible and Myths

In five pages this paper examines the Bible's collection of moral fiction, folktales, fables, and myths. Four sources are cited i...

Analysis of Do the Right Thing

In five pages this research paper analyzes this 1989 movie by director Spike Lee in terms of the arguments presented within and it...

Films Prince of the City, Serpico, and the 'Code of Silence'

In five pages this paper examines how these films and the books they were based on feature the 'code of silence' in an assessment ...

Sexual Symbolism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...

Penance Rather Than Death in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

Two Very Different Heroes Aeneas and Achilles

ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman c...

Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and Other Works of Literature

the government offices depicted in Elena Poniatowska?s The Night Visitor. In Poniatowska?s story as well, the author is striving f...

Themes of Morality and Values in Hansberry's, Raisin In The Sun

This essay examines thematic elements in Hansberry's play, A Raisin In The Sun. The author focuses on morals and family values. ...

Medical Ethics Issues and Catholic Hospitals

In eight pages the moral dilemmas several Catholic hospitals struggle with in terms of such medical issues as euthanasia and abort...

The New Men by C.P. Snow

In six pages the 1954 text that dealt primarily with moral issues discussed by bureaucrats and atomic scientists is examined. Fou...

Communist State and Utopia by Sir Thomas More

a radical alternative to the industrial capitalism then flourishing throughout the more highly-developed countries of Europe. Thus...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

Stylistic elements in Jane Eyre

This paper looks at the use of particular stylistic elements in Bronte's novel which underpin her use of character development and...

Courage in Tellez and Hemingway as 'Comfortable Inaction'

In 4 pages free will and fate as it summons moral courage are considered in this comparative paper that includes a discussion of H...

Loss of the American Dream in Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...

Honestly Appraising Political Opposition in Binka Le Breton's A Land to Die For

Journalist Binka Le Breton's investigation into the assassination of Brazilian priest Josimo Morals Tavares consists of seven page...

Hamlet's Agonies

That is Shakespeares mystery, which he took with him to the grave. However, once the ghost...