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Meaning of 'Social Accents'

was used by the first editor of the English Pronouncing Dictionary and the model of pronunciation that he preferred (Tench 107). T...

Iraq and Democracy

a lot. Lives were lost in the struggle. Some do not think it was worth it. In understanding democracy and the process of democra...

Free Will, Concentration Camps, and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells abou...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

The Matrix and Meaning

and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

Begging and its Meaning in Elective Affinities by Goethe

seen in a negative light. In the work by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe entitled Elective Affinities there is a sense that begging is...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Meaning

Friday. (Gleefully) Check coming tomorrow , huh?" (Hansberry 8). Ruth simply replies, "You get your mind off money and eat your br...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

'Live and Let Live' and Stephen Carter's Etiquette of Democracy

social theorists for over a century. Perhaps one of the best approaches to addressing the concept of democracy, though, came not ...

What Writing Means to an Individual

difficult or confusing, perhaps largely because of how writing is taught and how structuring sentences can become almost scientifi...

Search for Tomorrow Soap Opera and What is Meant by the Plight of the Heroine Joanne

law. Joanne, the protagonist, had endured a lifetime of woe, beginning with the death of her husband. The widow was seemingly man...

Islamic Jihad and What It Means

possible to see even though war may be inevitable in some circumstances Muslims should not be those to start the war, as seen with...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Dahl, and Joseph Schumpeter on Democracy

In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...

Meaning of the Lyrics 'America the Beautiful' by Poet Katherine Lee Bates

(Nash 12C). At the time of her composition, Bates had traveled to Colorado with an expedition to climb up the 14,000-foot-plus Pik...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Meaning of Patriotism

positive and gratifying experience for citizens, who feel indebted to their country for receiving such blessings as freedom, secur...

Fashion: A Means of Expression

Many may argue with this, claiming not everyone cares about what they wear as a form of presenting ones identity. Yet, even those ...

Distribution of Wealth and Democracy

1929. While profits soar, wages have steadily decreased and workers systematically laid off. The United States is predicated u...

Database Directive Implementation of the EU and the Sui Generis Right's Meaning

EU has led the rest of the developed world in examining individuals privacy issues in our electronic age. The result of this lead...

Meaning of Hate Crimes

are placid and do nothing, allowing these they of crime to continue. If we consider the way that those in society are...

European Union and Democracy

In 5 pages democratizing the EU is examined in terms of its progress pertaining to public participation in the process, informatio...

Psychology and its Meaning

a cause and that the cause of a particular reaction could be interpreted through deductive reasoning (Psychology, 1993). Other phi...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Courage, the Theory of the Mean and Aristotle

of any specific society which destroyed the identity of justice and morality as one with the state. Obviously, such thinking serve...

Meaning of Terrorism

style. Terrorism according to Laqueur In his book, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, writer ...