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Indian Philosophy and the Connection Between Suffering and Craving

Craving can also be related to karma, a karma consisting of bodily karma, vocal karma and mental karma, each defined below:...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Universal Truths in White Oleander by Janet Fitch

needing her mother to be there for her, both emotionally and physically. Ingrid fills Astrids mind with so much New Age theories a...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

A Common Humanity of Raimond Gaita

Recovering "Serious" Morality Because of Gaitas clear willingness to address what most would refer to as the "hard issues," it sh...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?'

This 5 page essay considers how Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass attempt to through literature chronical the struggles of th...

Relationship Between Truth and History

(which could mean anytime between the early 1990s and today, Coetzees "spare" novel (as some critics have called it) concerns Davi...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Media Distortion

to take lightly. However, it appears that those who report the news do not take into consideration the very lives their stories a...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Truth and Perspectives in Journalism

at the front page of the Independent Media Centre the name suggests that it is not going to be biased and seeks to give its own ac...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

North Carolina and Usury Laws

help at all, either. In 1978, the Supreme Court rules that a bank or other credit issuer could charge higher interest rates and fe...

Analogue to Digital Photography Shift and its Implications

point that mass production of art pieces was developed. For Benjamin, despite given the technology which provided what seemed like...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Truth, the 'Examined Life,' and Socrates

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

History as a Science

In five pages this paper discusses the science of history in a consideration of how reality is occasionally altered in an examinat...

Illusion and Truth in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

In five pages this paper examines symbolism, truth, and illusion as represented in this play by Edward Albee. Six sources are cit...

Critical Reception to Alice Adams's Fiction

In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...

Character of Mersault in The Stranger by Albert Camus

This essay consisting of eight pages evaluates the ways in which this good man is destroyed by the civilization that refuses to ac...

Various Essays on World Literature

This 15 page paper comprises a series of essays in various literary genres. Works examined include the speeches of Sojourner Truth...

Truth According to Plato in The Republic, Apology, and Crito

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

Philosophy and Morality Rhetoric in Phaedrus and Gorgias by Plato

In five pages this paper analyzes truth in these works in a consideration of the axiological, ontological, and epistemological arg...

Psychology and Scientific Materialism's Impact

In ten pages this paper discusses how psychology has been impacted by scientific materialism reliance with a consideration of chil...

Cultural Concepts from an Anthropological Perspective

a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...

The Ready Made World by Hillary Putnam

In five pages theoretical processes and truth in 'the ready made world' are examined within the context of Putnam's book which thi...

Existentialism and Phenomenology

In nine pages this paper discusses how a philosophy class would teach phenomenology and existentialist theories by answering quest...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...