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Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Mass Transit Industry and Organizational Communications

up to an hour, if not more. As a result, many people are moving from the suburbs and back into the city core, where they get rid o...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Meaning and Philosophy

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

Time and Philosophy

When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Research on Emotional Intelligence

the researchers original model and that proposed by Goleman. For instance, she points out that Mayer and Salovey focused on the fl...

Gender Roles and Bureaucracies

the claims of equality it may be in the name of efficiency that sex is driven out of the workplace (Schultz, 2003). The associat...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

Ethical Implications of Abortion Health Care

abortions were categorized as being either therapeutic (legal) or criminal (Aries, 2003). Therapeutic abortions were only cases i...

Plato and Eternity

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Erik Erikson's Theories and What It Means to Be an Adult

human beings into jeopardy. Thus, adults have a responsibility to use their ability for higher reasoning and abstract thought to p...

United Kingdom's Internal Labor Market

labour, but does have do some similarities, however it appears to depart from the central market in behaviour characteristics. The...

Discussion of Corporate Culture

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...

Vanishing Point Film and Existentialism

on the Today show, but most will die before that time. The speedometer on the car can indeed represent life and how or why one can...

Success of Armed Prophets and Grief for Unarmed Prophets

This Machiavellian concept is examines in ten pages with Moses being among the prophets discussed. Four sources are cited in the ...

Three Viewponts of Police Unions

the private sector. However, government workers and teachers would soon be recruited to the labor movement (Troy, 2000). Yet, it a...

Love Definition and Research

being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Economic Effects of Balance of Payments

on the economy, its hoped that a better understanding of how the U.S. handles capitalism abroad can give a good idea of how well (...

Economic Growth and Innovation

of laundry detergent. Levitt (1986) used the railroad industry in the US as his example. Railroads began to decline when t...

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and Kingship

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...