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Soul Theory of Plato Featured in The Republic, Phaedrus, and Crito

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

Summaries of Plato's Dialogues Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and Euthyphro

pious is to act like him, and not tolerate any ill act. Socrates wants more detail. Euthyphro says that what pleases the gods is ...

Citizen Duty According to Socrates in Plato's Crito

In five pages this report considers Socrates' belief that an individual's foremost responsibility is to the state. There are no o...

Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinematic Poetry

This in-depth research paper puts forth the argument that the films of director Andrei Tarkovsky are best seen as cinematic poetry...

Metaphors in 'Oresteia' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument presented is that metaphors especially bird metaphors are employed to represen...

Themes of Bood and Evil in The Bible, Crito, and The Oresteia

This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...

Virtue and the Good Life According to the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

so morality, for Aristotle is defined by mans choices towards ethical virtue (1098a16). In Book II of "Nicomachean Ethics," Ari...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

Why Women Stay with Their Abusers

And another tells how widespread it is: 31% of American women, that is nearly one-third of all women, report that they have been p...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Lack of Tolerance in Moral Principle Illogic

In four pages this paper examines the tolerance that is sadly lacking from most moral principles with a discussion of illogic and ...

Rules of Investing

In six pages with an outline of one page also included the traditional rules of wise investment are considered with the argument p...

Faith or Reason in Belief in God

In five pages a dialogue between two people is explored with one who argues that a person believing in God must possess good reaso...

The Problem with Statistics

it by the size of the population. In some instances this may be a useful statistic, but it can be misleading. For example, when lo...

Why Should a Trailer Mounted Fire Unit be Replaced?

with an understanding of how to deal with five in the environment, and their ability to think quickly and react in the appropriate...

Kant’s Format for Argument

an author chooses to present his arguments can have an impact on how easy (or difficult) it is to understand him. This paper consi...

Tuition Reimbursement

It is for purposes of attracting new employees, retaining the old ones, and simply improving the worth of the workers that firms s...

Mockingjay

She is constantly confused by what she should do, considering she has ultimately been controlled by the Capitol for her entire lif...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Drilling for Oil

American dependence on foreign oil, there is a cost to the environment. Further, the threat of an oil spill is also an issue. Alte...

Narrative Complexity in Popular Entertainment: Does TV Make Us Smarter?

opens his argument with the claim that the majority of todays popular television shows utilize a form of narrative complexity that...

Cultural Acceptance of Controversial Images: An Ethical or Aesthetic Concern?

to believe that the American character is typified by a na?ve sense of exceptionalism, we, as a culture, continue to be mired in q...

The Views of the Principate in the Works of Tacitus

Augustus self-aggrandizing propaganda (Elsner, 1996, p. 14). Augustus had successfully brought together many of the forces that c...

"The Bluest Eye" and Standards of Beauty

animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...

The World Trade Organization and Appeals Criteria

What can be appealed? How does one distinguish between issues of law and issues of fact? Can factual...

Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

Analysis of Rene Descartes' Two Meditations

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

'The Case for Materialism' by Richard Taylor and 'Why I Am a Dualist' by William S. Robinson Critically Analyzed

In nine and a half pages the relevant points of each article are considered in terms of arguments and pespectives with these findi...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

Erik Olin Wright's Marxism After Communism

In five pages this paper examines the points the author makes in this text and evaluates the effectiveness of his arguments. One ...