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Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Terminally Ill Assistance and Euthanasia

a matter that is automatically seen as euthanasia. If we consider the case of Diane Petty we may see why it was that she sought t...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism Chapter 4

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

Kirby J and Unlimited Power Decision Granted

is certainly out of line with the mainstream of constitutional theory as applied in our courts" (Lexis, 2002). The arguments put ...

Encouraging the Development of the Internet in Developing Nations

Business moves more quickly than at any other time, and it is essential that remote sites be in contact with each other, with corp...

Pros and Cons of Abortion

the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...

Can the Issues of Human Rights Be Considered Valid?

free citizens to own and inherit property as well as to be free from excessive taxation (1997). It created the right of widows who...

Science of Sociology

the status of a full scientific enterprise. The author states that its essential flaw is its failure to accept its own limitations...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

A Privacy Issue

policy of individual rights. However, those rights, it would seem, are the very ones that are being used against the United States...

Accounting Dichotomies

date by the time they are read. Therefore, there is an importance that these need to be understood and be set by standards. Howe...

In Support of Gun Control

would indeed reduce the number of deaths due to guns and would eliminate much of the violence in this country. In order to fully ...

Plutocratic USA

than governments that are controlled by a single class, select group or single person, such as a monarch (Democracy, 2002). In lat...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Kathleen Blee's Women of the Klan

before World War I, but by all accounts they were not as organized, nor prolific as they became after the war. Why was this, Blee ...

Justice in the United States

However, this is an exaggeration, surely, as there has been a precedent for this type of secret military trial. It occurred in 194...

James Rachels and Cultural Relativism

within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...

Japanese Lost Tribes?

that appears to illustrate the story of Isaac, which is recorded in the book of Genesis in both Jewish and Christian scripture. Th...

Marriage and Changing its Legal Definition

marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same commitments, or that there is an inherent wrongn...

Patriarchal Societal Aspects of Great Britain

of this imagery at both a conscious level as well as a sub conscious level within society is expressed in the way the image of the...

Griffith v. Valley of Sun Recovery, Inc. Appeal Sample

succeeded only in waking the entire neighborhood. During the second attempt, a neighbor of Williams produced a shotgun, which Will...

The Social Equalizing Factors of The Black Plague

and as a result those that were well took advantage of the situation and demanded higher wages. When the landlords refused to meet...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

Free Market and Competition

to a consensus as to how resources are distributed and the kind of commodities which are produced and sold. Consequently, the mark...

The Workplace and Affirmative Action

everyone had a chance to be hired for the same jobs, and to receive the same pay and treatment as everyone else. The exploration o...