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Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Scientific Revolution and Government Attitudes About Science

In twelve pages this paper examines the aftermath of the Scientific Revolution as it pertains to government attitudes about scienc...

Social Paradigm for Change Represented by the Scientific Revolution

1991). This invention meant that new ideas could be readily shared, and also, that it was much more difficult to the Church to c...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

Does Science Have All the Answers?

of penetrating into the natural world; but there is no objective, certain or scientific method for setting or testing them " (Rave...

The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Scientific Revolution

to by separate from Catholicism is a significant development in human history. The Counter-Reformation, as its name implies, was ...

Scientific Management in the UK

been able to cope with the expansive growth seen over the last fifty years. In order to consider this we need to look at the compa...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

Answers to 5 Student Question on the French Revolution

It is important to remember that the American and French Revolutions occurred within a relatively short period of time. As the Uni...

Ethics and Community Policing

In order to be effective community corrections must be structured around ethical principles and police behavior must reflect that ...

The Tunisian Revolution and Marxist Ideology

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at the Tunisian revolution. Marxist theories are put forth as a way to explain the re...

Changes in Warfare During the Medieval Period

a larger and more economical fighting force; the soldiers, mainly pikemen or archers, did not require such expensive equipment or ...

Successful Communist Revolutions in China and Russia A Comparative Assessment

particular czar Nicholas II, an increasing dichotomy was created between the ruling class and the workers, and urban poverty deter...

Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin

admittedly the fossil record was far from complete, nor was our understanding of it incontestable, we began to consider a process ...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

French Revolution and Pattern of Revolution Stages by Crane Brinton

the evolution of revolutions. Firstly, an overall faith in the existing political and ruling system decreases and the intellectual...

Consequences of 1905's Russian Revolution

the power of the peasants and their growing discontent. As time passed and conditions worsened, the people continued to get les...

Comparing the American and French Revolutions in Terms of Causative Factors

reforms to France, however, it did not make France a democracy. The socioeconomic structure of pre-Revolutionary France was at th...

Criminology Foundations

the components which make up the "ruling class domination" in regards to crime and why some criminal actions come to the attention...

Active Euthanasia: Preferable To Passive Euthanasia

Terri Schiavo situation, which has once again sparked heated debate over the legality and ethical nature of euthanasia, illustrate...

20th Century Theology, Homosexuality, and the Church

tossing very divergent prohibitions under one blanket, states that godless "women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and [...

Impact of the American Revolution on the Subsequent French Revolution

In fourteen pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in order to demonstrate the differences between the American and F...

Corpuscular Light Theory of Sir Isaac Newton

In five pages this research paper considers the corpuscular light theory developed by Newton and how this formed the foundation fo...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

French Revolution from 2 Perspectives

well as the commoners demanded a constitution and a new regime in which personal rights would be respected. In discussing the cal...

Contemporary World and the Role of Classic Rhetoric

In four pages this research paper considers the compatibility of the contemporary world's technology and mass media with the class...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

French Revolution and the Application of Principles from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In six pages this essay seeks to better understand the French Revolution through an application of the theories contained in Machi...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...