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Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

Putting a Price on Human Life

can we even begin to put a price on someones life? The obscene arithmetic that says Mr. Jones is worth ten times Mr. Smith complet...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Mythological Archetype and Adam and Eve

originate in the collective unconscious of the race as a whole, saying that they were "primordial images which have always been th...

North American Human Social Groupings

human beings approach all of life. Defining and describing this change precisely is not an easy task. As Laslett points out, no ea...

Overview of Social Norms

influenced by principles its members completely and accept without challenge, has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful sta...

Africa, Environment, Quality of Life, and Sustainable Development

have development a series of solutions for areas of environmental concern but plans for progress are often impeded by severe econo...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Questions and Answers Regarding Lifespan Development

4th edition by Carol K. Sigelman and Elizabeth A. Rider, there are many theories about childhood development and as such there are...

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

'The Death of the Moth' by Virginia Woolf

to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....

Picnic Play by William Inge

dreamer with no solid grounding on a collision course with Madge, the town beauty whose own discontent with the way by which her l...

Animal Testing and Ethics

have been made without the animals. Consider Dr. Thomas E. Starzl who was the first to succeed with kidney transplants (Americans ...

Madeleine Nash's Article 'Inside the Womb'

not only the mothers body but also her genetic makeup and that of the embryos father. She can hear her blood gushing through her ...

Human Behavior, Lemurs, and Gorillas

help Mother Nature propagate. Characteristic of the animals eating pattern is the manner in which they sloppily spread their food...

The Plague by Albert Camus and Human Meaning Struggles

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...

Human Nature and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

Women in Labor and Pain Control's Cultural Aspects

pain and also in how nurses from various cultures perceive the pain of their patients. As this suggests, Weber (1996) provides a c...

John Paul II's The Gospel of Life Evangelium vitae

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

Human Life and Its Origins

34). Religion offers an alternative scenario, but science has yet to come up with a logical explanation for how this new informati...

Past and Present Mount Etna Volcanic Eruptions

of a giant named Typhon far beneath the volcanos surface (Gidwitz, 2002). Whenever Typhon would try to escape, Etnas mighty erupt...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Society According to Elton Mayo

In ten pages Elton Mayo's life and writings are critically discussed with a consideration of Social Problems of an Industrialized ...

Sigmund Freud versus Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts the perspectives of Freud and Nietzsche regarding how human lives are impacted by instincts tha...

Analysis of the Happiness Concept of Saint Thomas Aquinas

wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

Life and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

In six pages this essay discusses how life themes including people finding a social niche and social animal characteristics of hum...

Walt Disney as a Role Model

His mainstay -- the inimitable Mickey Mouse -- evolved around the time of the Great Depression, when hopes of prosperity had peris...

Gun Control's Ineffectiveness

In eight pages this paper discusses how gun control legislation has been ineffective because society is the problem, not guns. Se...