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God's Existence According to Swinburne

a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

Mockingjay

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Truth According to Plato in The Republic, Apology, and Crito

In eight pages this paper analyzes how Plato's methods as they involve truth are considered in an examination of this trio of dial...

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 ...

Justice Theories of Plato in The Republic

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

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...

Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

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). ...

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...

Profiling & Terrorism

criminal profiling, law enforcement personnel use characteristics associated with a particular crime or group of crimes to develop...

Rene Descartes/Proving God Exists

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

Synthesis, Analysis of 3 Public Policy Articles

which specifically examined why theories pertaining to foreign policy change had received little scholar attention. Holsti focused...

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...