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White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

Gender, Identity and Communication

intuitive sense of a subject, but keep it to himself for fear of being made to feel "girly"-intuition is after all supposedly conf...

Identity in The Maids by Jean Genet

The identity concept is explored in this analysis of The Maids, a play by Jean Genet in a paper consisting of seven pages....

Image Analysis Of Two Different Advertisements

one-way interplay between the ad and the viewer is a result of what Marx termed commodity fetishism, whereby the illusion of immed...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Ways to Improve Personal Credit (Article Review)

2006, p.44C). The article overall provides a few interesting questions about credit and does respond with general information. How...

Myers/Exploring Psychology/Chaps. 1-9

intriguing to him because of his current assignment in Iraq, as he can observe that the current criticism of the American occupati...

Myers/Exploring Psychology, Chapters 10-15

a baby to term and survive than a thin woman. Chapter 11 : Emotions, stress and health Myers begins by discussing different theo...

David Maguire/Sacred Choices

this argument on the fact federal policy on such issues as embryonic stem cell research has been decided along religious lines (Ma...

Hume's Concept of Utility

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Cultural Diversity, Racial Intolerance, and Personal Identity

In six pages this paper examines cultural diversity from the perspectives of racial intolerance and personal identity. Ten source...

'Humean' Naturalism and Wittgenstein

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

Theoretical Models on Personal Identity

subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

Is Cannibalism Ever Justified?

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

Hume's Is-Ought Problem

to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...

"Better Than Well" - America's Pursuit Of Personal Identity

transformed into a treatment. Doctors must be convinced that the problem addressed by the technology is a medical disorder (Ellio...

Hypocritical Title of the 'Scottish Enlightenment'

In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...

Edward Humes' 'No Matter How Loud I Shout : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court'

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

Time and Personal Identity

In eight pages this paper considers student faxed information regarding Barcalow's views on personal identity over a period of tim...

Overview of Continuity of Personal Identity

had before in any sense, having No! The inner man possesses "eternal life" or immortality out of which the new body arises. The b...

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Critical Essay on Hume's View of Contracts

ever voted, by a tenth part of those who were bound to pay obedience to it " (Hume PG). One can take this notion a step further an...

Critique of Llewelyn and Hume Article on How Patients Perceive Therapy

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...