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Ethics of German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

Coleridge vs. Byron

Romantic poets Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were contemporaries who viewed the world through different perspectives. Thi...

Human Contact and 'Ozymandia' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this paper presents a poetic analysis that compares its contents to human dependence in the contemporary world. The...

Perfect Society Concept and Utopia by Thomas More

In 5 pages this paper discusses whether or not contemporary society would regard More's Utopia as perfect in a consideration that ...

Classical Literature and The Role of World Leaders

This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...

Succeeding Without a College Education

the retail management ladder. Most people in the retail industry start out when they are looking for a secondary job, filling in ...

Ecology and Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

In five pages this landmark 1949 text written by the accomplished naturalist is considered in terms of the ways in which it has in...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie and Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe Compared

her. The son would have no say in the match, for this is how the marriage ritual had been performed for generations. The only qu...

Polybius's Philosophies

In five pages this paper examines the ancient Greek philosophies of Polybius and whether or not they are applicable to the contemp...

Einhard's Charlemagne

In a paper consisting of nine pages Charlemagne's contemporary world significance is considered within the context of Einhard's hi...

The Natural Philosophy of Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages Aristotle's natural philosophy is considered within the context of the contemporary world in t...

Contemporary World and Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes

In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

The Modern World and the Legacy of Antigone

In six pages the ways in which Antigone handles with what is an impossible choice and how it serves in developing true moral chara...

Modern Age and Information Renaissance

time felt that they were reviving older patterns of living and thinking that were first originated by the Romans and Greeks and th...

Changing Perceptions Regarding Nature, Animals, and Humankind

In nine pages this research paper considers the natural world and how humankind's perceptions regarding animals have changed with ...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

Quantum Reality's Eight Types

view, Everett had been trying to solve the problem as to why people see only one of the multiple states in where a particle can e...

Modern World and Marxism

the utopia that Marx sees as a communist society. Yet, the final three parameters of this human journey involve capitalism, social...

Review of William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses disease spread in a political interpretation of this book as it applies to the contemporary wor...

Susan Mattern's Rome and the Enemy Imperial Strategy in The Principate

In five pages this book is examined in an overview that wonders if the contemporary world could have such a foreign policy. Three...

Environmental Racism and Nuclear Colonialism

In five pages this paper discusses nuclear colonialism and environmental racism and the impact of technology on the contemporary w...

Alternative Learning Perspectives

In a paper consisting of ten pages alternative learning from a cultural perspective is explored as a relevant choice in a contempo...

Critical Legal Studies and Whether or Not They are Outdated

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

Natalie Merchant's Song 'These Are Days You'll Remember' and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...