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The Reasons Cited for the Onset of World War I

Russia and Britain signed a treaty, Russia joined the Entente. Russias entrance into the war was due to this Entente and their goa...

The Conservative Movement and Judaism

Conservative Judaism has historically evolved along with its American congregations. This paper argues for a uniquely American rea...

Social Theory Application in the Polly Klaas Murder Case

The sociological reasons for committing crimes are considered in this paper consisting seven pages with the emphasis on Polly Klaa...

'Reason as the law of the World' According to Hegel

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

Robots' Limitations and Scientific Method

process of deduction occurs, reasoning progresses from the specific to the general. In reality both processes are important to th...

Europe's Witch Hunts

often in gender (Davis, 1999). It is widely recognised today the majority of those tried for witchcraft were innocent of all charg...

A Comparison of Devil In The Shape Of A Woman and Salem Possessed

of teenage girls who were having what appeared to be seizure-like attacks that initially started the witch hunt. After they thras...

Syllogistic Reasoning and Cognitive Development

In ten pages children's cognitive development is examined in terms of syllogistic reasoning through a structure of introduction, h...

Research and Obervation in the Household

The effectiveness of sound reasoning, observation and research are often overlooked. In this paper, six weeks' worth of household ...

Modularity Theory

In seven pages this paper examines the text How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Gilovic...

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

Reason and Different Views

In five pages reason as incorporated into the satire of plays by Moliere, Pope, and Swift are compared with classical heroic views...

The Fall of the Song Empire

them into thinking That this place is the other one we knew in times of peace. There is, at first blush, some validity to the as...

Why Dot-Coms Failed in E-Commerce

A paper addressing various reasons why dot-com businesses failed for a period of time. The author presents data about the number ...

Why America Should Go to War with Iraq

happened, Saddam had never been properly dealt with during the Gulf War that occurred more than a decade ago. Since that time, the...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

Why did Barings Bank Fail?

the research on why businesses fail. A study by Moulton (et al, 1996) looked to identify the reasons for business failure. This st...

U.S. Bombing of Japan

politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians ...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Administrator Dilemma

university policy that clearly states personal business is not to be conducted upon school computers. Nick had more than enough r...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Accountability of Nongovernmental Organizations

in developing nations is broad; the specific interest of a specific NGO depends on the organizations business and its goals for th...

Emergency Room and Making Ethical Decisions

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...