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Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Assessment of Graffiti Through Qualitative Research

same wavering existence. Q. Why art and not some other form of expression? A. Art is a cultural expression, one that does not rec...

Mitchell Duneier's 'Sidewalk'

him with a direct window into their respective worlds. Stupidity, illiteracy or an absent work ethic has absolutely nothing to do...

Different Types of Argument Forms

Bill Clinton says: "I am delighted that so many students are here today." Bill Clinton is a liar. Therefore, he is not delighted ...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Verses 1 Corinthians 11:23-29

of the Lords Supper (Gill, 2001). Christ Himself gave the words and actions to use in remembrance of Him and a declaration of the ...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

The Transformation of China in Modern Times

for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is to improve upon what has existed in the past. The...

Spiritual Perspectives of Native American Author N. Scott Momaday

the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...

Evaluation Theory in Academia

This 25 page paper discusses the field of evaluation with regard to academic programs. The paper includes a literature review of p...

Modernist Themes in 'Death in Venice' and 'Mrs. Dalloway' Compared

Complex inner feelings and emotions as conveyed by modernist authors Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf are compared and contrasted al...

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

Multinational Corporations and Globalization

In five pages this paper discusses how multinational corporations have been affected by globalization with The Lexus and the Olive...

Mortality and Morality in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the role of Enkidu in the education of Gilgamesh and his understanding that accepting his mortal...

Comfort and Sorrow in Book of Songs

In five pages this paper examines how these poems evoke realization of social sorrows while also considering comfort through under...

Criminals and Psychological Cognition

AND CLASS Authors Messner and Rosenfeld strive to demonstrate the inherent relationship between crime and the manner in which soc...

Analyzing Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

same time, the importance of this identification should not be overestimated; his life experiences are not limited to the expected...

High School Students and an Online Community College Creation Course

keep the audience interacting with the "product" being presented. And yet, there is a fine line to be walked not to "over-do" the ...

Frederick Douglass' Life

In nine pages the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is used to gain a greater understanding of the man behind the eloque...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Ecology and its Basic Principles

Ecology and the importance of understanding its principles are discussed in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...

Tutorial on the Dinosaur Age

animal and plant species that have formed the existing ecosystem in terms of the need to learn more about the past. this can then...

Mental States' Presence and Artificial Intelligence

In five pages this paper considers a person with an electronic brain and whether that can be regarded as possessing a mental state...

The Symbolism of Heorot Hall in the Poem Beowulf

fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...

Presenting the 'Food Guide Pyramid' to Children

a wide range of creative possibilities for designing a presentation on the concepts the pyramid presents. Planning and Designing t...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I

and the need for Gods son. Satan is not merely presented, and then dismissed, as simply an evil entity that it out to rule, but ra...

The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel

acquire otherwise. While people must join the labor force in order to accumulate money, Simmel was of the opinion that they did s...