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Bacon and Plato - An Analysis

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

American and Greek Democracies - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...

Adult Learning Theories

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

The Cave and The Divided Line

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

The Caylee Anthony Case

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Nihilism: An Overview of Perspectives

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

Baudrillard, Plato, Sartre and Thoreau

prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...

Liberty or Death According to Patrick Henry

2004). When fighting broke out, Patrick Henry rose to the position of commander in chief of the states troops, "but he was preven...

Sam Houston According to Randolph Campbell

a lot of moral courage, he will also gain a reputation to match his actions. He will then be in a position in which he can make a ...

Human Consciousnesses According to Karl Marx

political ideas and values. It does seem to be the case that political ideas are shaped by what people already have and how peop...

Middle Class According to Benjamin Franklin, Moliere, and Voltaire

notably Charles Dickens, Moliere, and Voltaire - had decidedly different and less heroic definitions of the middle class in their ...

Shakespeare According to Samuel Johnson

the reasons he finds the writer to be so gifted. This paper explicates the Preface briefly. Discussion It must be said that Johns...

No Climate Crisis According to Author Michael Crichton

most entertaining books ever written, including Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World among others. His 2004 "tec...

Financial Performance of eBay according to the 2010 Accounts

firm has proven the effectiveness of its business model, showing it is suitable to different economic climates. 1. Introduction ...

The Laws of Change According to Obeng

The writer looks at the rules of change developed by Eddie Obeng. The laws are explained and then applied to a case study to demo...

Counseling According to Scripture

can help. Anderson points out that secular counseling is not holistic in that it does not generally include the persons spiritual...

Fitness Trends According to the ACSM

The writer looks at the 2011 survey carried out by the ACSM which is undertaken to predict the forthcoming trends in the fitness ...

Anomies According to Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton

This paper discusses typology of individual adaptations as is evidenced in the 1999 film American Beauty. There are two sources i...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

Business According to Adam Smith

Smith and his beliefs. Reading further, in particular about Smiths ideas of the division of labor, reveals a man who believes that...

Economic Analysis According to Mankiw's Ten Principles

Yet, it goes on to say that other markets, with particular attention to emerging markets, has quite the opposite experience ("A Ta...

Aestheticism According to Nietzsche and Cassian

fulfillment. John Cassian (1997) wrote extensively about this topic. For Cassian, the goals of asceticism seem to be the preparati...

Human Nature According to Confucius

those often aligned with Eastern thought. Yao & Yao (1998) write: "Here are yang and yin [two cosmic forces]: thus humans have the...

The Birth Of Jesus According To Matthew And Luke

great humility and eagerness to do as God wishes (Luke 1:39). She then travels to visit Elizabeth where she stays for three months...