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Life and Works of Agnes de Mille

ultimately offers the reader a look at a woman who would not give up and that makes it an inspirational book as well. In truth, th...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

St. Francis of Assisi

he should live a contemplative life of prayer or an active life of spreading the gospel to the world (Hammond 14). This led Franci...

Hans Christian Andersen/The Nightingale

begins by describing the elaborate, beautiful and impractical nature of the Chinese Emperors palace, which is so delicate that you...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

The Arguments For Torture; Are They Right?

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

Baudelaire In Savannah

and captivating. History indicates that this has always been true. General William Tecumseh Sherman was so taken with the city o...

The Problem of Isolation as Evaluated by Existentialist Philosophers

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

Comparing Poetry Attitudes of Aristotle and Plato

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

Democracy as Viewed by Aristotle

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

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...

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...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Kaplan, Imperial Grunts

to see Bissells point as Kaplan defines imperialism as "a form of isolationism, in which the demand for absolute, undefiled securi...

The Mean and Experience in Aristotle

works are studied to this day. They are unusually clear; difficulty in understanding may come from inept translations. This paper ...

Miller's Death of a Salesman

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...

Ancient and Modern Learning Techniques

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Character Sketch of Othello

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...