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Culture, Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

In five pages the contemporary world application of Hartshorne's centripetal and centrifugal force theories is offered along with ...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

In five pages this text is considered with the emphasis being on religious practices being studied by sociologists as a way to und...

The Life and Works of Aldous Huxley

In a paper consisting of nine pages the amazing life of this social revolutionary particularly as it relates to drug experimentati...

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...

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...

Achilles and Odysseus in A Modern Comparison

In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...

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...

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...

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...

Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

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...

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...

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...