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"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

Analysis of Three Cognitive Processes

are all familiar with different learning styles but the theories discussed take this further. Gardners multiple intelligences prov...

Cyber Bullying

properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...

The Moral Hijacking of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Populist Sentiment

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...

Williams/Jim's Predicament

the central square of a small South American town," where twenty Indians are about to be executed by government soldiers in order ...

Anecdotes and the Recognition of Psychological Theories

adhering to rules and norms, and ultimately to a level at which one recognizes universal principals and can engage in ethical deba...

"Dangerous Liaisons" and Moral Justice

a duel with Danceny which has been orchestrated by his nemesis Merteuil, and she in turn has her reputation and physical beauty de...

Just Hypocrisy in Pisan and Machiavelli

student explore the profundity of the ideological shift represented by de Pisan and Machiavelli. To be certain, the advocation of ...

Assisted Suicide - Taking a Contrary View

issue that has the potential to affect all of us. Recently, this issue has come under the spotlight with several media sources run...

Feminist Analysis and Antigone

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Moral Values in Judaism and Christianity

ethically necessary to offer the right of sanctuary to individuals who are fleeing political oppression (Voice of America, 2009). ...

Sigmund Freud v. Erik Erikson

Eriksons theories emphasize that "identity formation" is a life-long process that occurs on what is largely a subconscious level (...

Moral Foreign Policy Difficulties and 'Just War' Theory

given and part of that speech includes the following observation: "For centuries, philosophers and theologians have grappled with ...

Moral Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...

Ethical Validity of Conscription

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

Plato's 'Gyge's Ring'

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Judiciary Function Theories

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

Moral Education by Laurence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan

Morality (age 4 - 10) - This is when moral value resides in what the person needs and wants for himself (Laurence Kohlberg, 2002)....

Professional Counseling and the Value of Morals

last thing they want to think about is whether or not their therapist is going to take advantage of the situation. However, as wi...

Beck, Wright, Sowell, Berger, and Courtwright Idea Connection

attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Nursing Ethics in December 2002 AORN Journal

Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...

Exotic Dancing and Moral Nihilism

who has decided to take up smoking, go for an extended trip to the country, or fix dinner. "What I relate," Nietzsche wrote in The...

Kantian Concepts of Morality

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...