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God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Good Taste and Art According to David Hume

In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...

'Obligation of Promises' According to David Hume

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

David Chu's Nautica International Retailers

The picture for Nautica continues to look rosy. The merger upped Nauticas generic channel management strategy by opening up distri...

David Ives' One Act Play Sure Thing

such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...

Medieval Households by David Herlihy

lacked a concept of the coresidential, primary descent group, he used literary texts and census units. For the emergence of the c...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

David C. Berliner, Bruce J. Biddle, and James Bell's The Manufactured Crisis

tests." They also point out that the SAT test only verbal and math skills and is no longer enough of a base to determine the appr...

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...

April 1862 New Orleans Blockade by Union Captain David G. Farragut During the US Civil War

In ten pages this paper examines this Civil War blockade and what it strategically represented to Northern troops. Eight sources ...

Critique of David H. Bayley's Forces of Order Policing Modern Japan

A critique of this 1997 text revision is presented in five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

Causal Relationships and David Hume's Critique

In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...

'Promise of Technology' in David Strong's Crazy Mountains

In five pages this paper presents a summary and analysis of 'Promise of Technology' and also offers the opposing position of Alber...

David Mamet's Oleanna

In five pages this essay probes the different levels of Mamet's play and how he uses the egotistical college professor John to pre...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Trans Civilization and Trans Ecological Routes Article by David Christian

In two pages this Journal of World History article is discussed in terms of its emphasis that the silk road trade routes of Africa...

David Sculpture of Michelangelo

in a singular manner also. Interpretive: The "feel" of this whole work is one of resting power. The artist has captured the imag...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

David Stoll's Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

In five pages this paper analyzes Stoll's text in terms of the author's point of view and the debates that continue to linger rega...

Henry David Thoreau and the War in Iraq

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Failure of the Israeli-Palestinian Summit, Camp David, 2000

in an article by Jeremy Pressman. He says that most people believe that "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made a generous offer t...