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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Environment

returning home only to find his friends drunk and lost to the world. He essentially needs healing and he can only find healing thr...

Runway Clashes

flight 1736 collision on the runway at Tenerifes Los Rodeo Airport in the Canary Islands. The Flight KL4805/Pan Am 1736 d...

The Subjects of Virtue and Beauty

2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...

'The Death of the Moth' by Virginia Woolf

to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....

Scientific Knowledge on Sharks' Attacking Humans

staying up all Sunday night and writing it, just so I didnt have to miss all day Sunday sun-burning my nose, while paddling around...

Compassion Ethic of the Dalai Lama in Kindness, Clarity and Insight

responds in kind (Gyatso Compassion and the Individual). It is important to understand what the Dalai Lama means by compassion. ...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Fungi, Myocototoxins, and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

and mycotoxins: the latter are not essential to the life of the mould, but appear to have the purpose of giving the organism an ad...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Global Processes of Agriculture and Genetic Engineering

In five pages this paper argues that human beings should not be subjected to animal and plant genetic engineering to comprise thei...

Libertarian Manifesto of John Hospers

In four pages this report examines the Manifesto 'Each human being has the right to live his life as he chooses, compatibly with t...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Concepts and Identity According to John Locke

the tea, thus a complex idea is "brewing." The making of the tea connects us in a unique way that is singular to the two of us. M...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Answering the Question of 'Who Am I?'

putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...

Understanding Death Through Rituals

within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Refuting Rene Descartes' Argument 'I Think Therefore I Am'

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

'Kiss of the Lord' Sermon by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

In five pages one of these sermons by St. Bernard of Clarvaux is analyzed in terms of the monastic asceticism that is emphasized b...

Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 and its Implication on Aviation Regulations and Safety

In six pages this paper discusses aviation safety before and after the Lockerbie, Scotland crash of Pan Am Flight 103. Four sourc...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

Supreme Personal Being and Religious Experience

In five pages this paper examines a Supreme Personal Being's role in the religious experiences with beliefs addressed in the philo...