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Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Church and State Views of Thomas Jefferson

believe in freeing slaves, and he was "stuck" with their decision. The student may consider the fact that President Jeffer...

Tudor Literary Tradition and Utopia by Thomas More

as long as the economy were flourishing, they reasoned they were prospering as well, so there was no need for rebellion (Kautsky, ...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Theology

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

An Article on Subliminal Perception Critiqued

in procedural variation. In this experiment, the researchers recruited 137 college students to listen to a tape of contemporary ja...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Richard Valantasis' The Gospel of Thomas

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...

Victorian England and the Rural Life Philosophy of Richard Jeffries

an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

Ethical Obligations of Humankind

repetition, thus forming a habit. In other words, the virtuous man will take pleasure in acting good because it is an expression o...

Late Medieval Period Account of Spielvogel and Utopia by Thomas More

peasantry, although far more numerous, have very few material resources and no political power at all: they have no say in the way...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Cantos 11 and 12 of Dante's 'Paradiso'

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson,' Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Blissful Ignorance

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

America of the Eighteenth Century and the Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson

in the Virginia (Leary 42). Palladios designes were: "... inspired by the temples and villas of Ancient Rome. Palladio project...

English Literature and Love from the Romantic to Victorian Eras

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

The Fall of King Arthur and His Kingdom

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

Mann's Death in Venice

of Venice? Mann wastes little time in linking Aschenbachs desire for beauty, played out mostly in elaborate fantasies, with the r...