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Taking Video Games to China

two or three weeks, so that they will get hooked" (Srinivasan, 2005). Indian programmers are indeed being "hooked" and the compan...

Athena, The Virgin Goddess

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

Gender/Sexuality in 6 Films

the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

Hindu Conceptualizations of God

This research paper/essay discusses the way the divine is conceptualized within the Hindu religion. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are t...

Dance is a Language

(Hanna 40). While many dances are narrative in nature, others are more like poetry, as they deal primarily in abstraction and meta...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Life Span, Longevity and Life Span Development

long lives, others are relatively short. This paper considers the human life span, life expectancy, human developmental periods an...

Time in Sonnet 2, Sonnet 55, and Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare

And dig deep trenches in thy beautys field, Thy youths proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totterd...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kate Chpin's The Awakening Compared

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

'Evil' Problem and Confessions of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...

Women's Role and Politics

This aids women because many do not have the means to carry their own health insurance nor do they have the ability to obtain empl...

Connection Between Politics and Ethics

individual turf without ethical concerns. Mandatory drug laws take family cars when the owners are not even guilty of a thing. Col...

Hinduism and the Concepts of Life and Death

human being itself is the Purusha and thus an infinite being. He only has to liberate himself from the bondage of Maya to realise ...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

Foucault on the Vikings 'Sex Boat Scandal'

a gay rights movement today which accentuates homosexual activity. Yet, through history homosexuality has always been with society...

Morality of the Will and the Theories of Immanuel Kant

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

Student Project on Motorbike Fabrication

project is planed so this is an aspect of the project that needs to be accepted. The project unfolded with the allocation of the...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Christology of Paul Johannes Tillich

biography provides insight as to the factors that led him toward his particular christological perspective. Biographical backgrou...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Virtue

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

Religion According to Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

The left wing, also known as Young Hegelians, emphasized the analysis of contradictions (Kamenka, 1983). The left looked at cont...

Capitalism and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

'Nature' as Perceived by Ralph Waldo Emerson

concept of viewing Nature as if for the first time, as a child does, is also emphasized, because Emerson believes that the end of ...