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Essays 511 - 540

Kant on the End of All Things and Perpetual Peace

never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

Tera Tech Case Study

pricing strategies were not sufficient to regain sales, their product was near the end of its lifecycle. In the end the company ha...

Don’t Fall Asleep Riding Shotgun

"low-beam lights also was out," forcing Smith to use his high beams "sparingly so as not to blind oncoming traffic. When the trail...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

Fascism in Italy

a journalist, teacher and soldier who "advocated extreme right-wing policies" (Mangion). Appealing to patriotism and promising to ...

Illness

During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of fa...

Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism/South Africa

"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...

Man's Fall From Grace And Consequences Of Sin

has been diverted from its supernatural end through the fault of the first parents" (The Vatican, 1986). This means that man is bo...

Global Warming: Liberal Perspective

spite of the fact that China has attempted to address its number of people, there is no denying how this huge nation requires a si...

Flawed Leaders and Passionate Women

a married man, and although his relationship with his wife Clytemnestra is deadly, he has no business bringing home the girl as hi...

The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

The Berlin Wall

in February 1959, when he talked of "settling a separate peace treaty between the USSR and the GDR" (Kirste). Although President K...

Security and Secrecy Issues Following the Cases of Wen Ho Lee and Robert Hanssen

on both morale and confidence (Meek, 2001). Mole hunting measure need to be in place. These measures can include the use of random...

Stages of Sleep

polluted with byproducts of normal cellular activities that they begin to malfunction" (Brain basics: understanding sleep, 2007). ...

Leaving Variance Analysis Behind

Walker (2005, p. 43) presents a scenario to which she applies variance analysis. Though variance analysis techniques can be used ...

“The Things They Carried”

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

Runciman: "The Fall of Constantinople 1453."

portrait of the Byzantine Empire, Runciman shows us a civilization caught in the middle of a number of forces: the Turks invaded f...

Rachel Carson's "The Obligation To Endure" - Analysis

"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemica...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Vienna and Budapest

of the Hungarian cultural assimilation of so many Jews, the very atmosphere of Budapest was different from that of Berlin, Vienna,...

Spring and Fall

and the freezing weather begins to slowly build, causing freezes at night, and generally chilling the ground on its way into winte...

"Explaining Globalization" - Review And Evaluation

Is there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday ...

The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

Nora and the "Wonderful Thing"

her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...

The Fall of Constantinople

of destruction achievable by military force" (Fronda, 2004, p. 619). This seems like a good starting place to consider why the Tur...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...