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Literature and Gender Issues

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of Salmon Rushdie and Conan Doyle in respect to gender roles. The concept of...

Principle of Radical Empiricism and David Hume

with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...

'Beautiful and Just Things,' 'Just' and Plato's The Republic and Phaedo

In six pages this paper discusses the philosophical distinctions Socrates made between these two concepts as presented in Plato's ...

Erich Maria Remarque and Maximilien Robespierre Compared

This research report compares and contrasts these two historic French figures. Different ideas about each of these characters are ...

The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

Mythology Functions According to Joseph Campbell

story of Demeter and Persephone expresses not only the passing of the seasons, but also the whole drama of life, death, life that ...

Double Reference Principles in the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel

In three pages examples from these biblical books illustrate double reference principles and their 4 types. Two sources are cited...

An Argument for the Clinton Health Plan

The health plan originally proposed by the BIll Clinton administration is the subject of this research paper, which argues that th...

Comic Books' Ratings Systems

In five pages this persuasive paper argues that the ambiguous Comics Code Authority needs to be replaced with a more clear and dis...

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

Im still struggling with any course material that is remotely mathematical. As always, my loves are history, philosophy and this s...

Speech and Property Issues

In fifteen pages this paper discusses intellectual property rights issues and free speech with Two Live Crew rap group and Dustin ...

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

Social Policy and its Formation

need to resolve these problems and that all values of the society can be known and evaluated (DiNitto 5). It further assumes that ...

Comparing Ideas of Mill and Nietzsche

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

Civic Duty, the Community, and Individualism

what could be, seeing community as important and contingent on something he calls social capital. University Professor Robert D. ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain and Invisible Man Compared

This research report examines these two well known works. The element of time is highlighted in analyzing these books. This five p...

Telecommuting Advantages and Disadvantages

said, reduced to wage laborers. Everything comes down to billable hours or what one has to do based on an outside agency such as a...

Colleges and the Use of Speech Codes

stiffened penalties inherent in the speech code and particularly addressed what she termed "anti-feminist intellectual harassment"...

A Fictional Conversation With Author Tom Peters

This paper provides a conversation between a professor Ralph Stacey and author Tom Peters. The author pays particular attention t...

A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, & the Advent of Gonzo Journalism

The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...

Justice as it Respects Hobbes and Plato

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

Tibetan Buddhism and Gandhi's Satyagraha

BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...

Epicurean Concepts of 'Ataraxia' and Aristotelian Concepts of 'Human Good,' 'The Best Good,' and 'Function Argument'

positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...

The Concept of 'Freedom' of Choice as Perceived by Epictetus, Epicurus, and Aristotle

be regarded as involuntary because it is not externally rooted in another person; but it is irrational and therefore not represent...

The Independence of the Central Bank

1999). Thus, the central bank is most generally more anti-inflation than democratic governments. There are both advantages and di...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Contrasting and Comparing Descartes and Locke

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...