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Willa Cather and Amy Tan and Point of View

view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...

Assessment of the Breakeven Point for AT&T in 2009

need to differentiate between the fixed costs and the variable costs. The traditional approach variable costs are these are the di...

Practicality of Existentialism

if coincidences are meaningless activities created by the individual thinker who indeed creates his own universe? It is really dif...

A Review of The Presocratic Reader

Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...

Zhang Deyi's Point of View

seem to build wherever they journey. This is a rather objective notion. Clearly, this does seem to be the case today and Deyi noti...

Philosophical Similarities of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

'The Iliad' by Homer and its Major Action Points

provoke me, she with her shrill abuse. Even now in the face of the immortal gods, she harries me perpetually, Hera charges me that...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

TURNING POINT DRUG REHAB AND SOLUTION DESIGN

How Use Will Help System Analysis and Design Process As mentioned in the previous paper, use cases are ideal for determini...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Two Articles' Main Points: "Driven To Extremes" And Seasonality And Children's Blood Lead Levels"

link, with added impacts on urban childrens health (Laidlaw et al, 2005, p. 793). II. DRIVEN TO EXTREMES Human activity is...

Identity Perception and Thought According to Thomas Reid and John Locke

identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Section 9 Book II, Chapter XXVII). Yet, Locke gathered his ideas from talkin...

Pleasure According to Aristotle

In six pages Aristotle's view of pleasure in terms of where it resides within the context of a happy life is examined with the ass...

Individualism, Society, and Political Ideology According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

Turning Point of Watergate for Richard M. Nixon

In eleven pages this paper discusses the catalyst or turning point the Watergate scandal represented for President Richard M. Nixo...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of wh...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Problemata I of Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's solution to Problemata I featured in his text Fear and Trembling is discussed...

Points of Pope John Paul II's The Splendor of Truth

In five pages The Splendor of Truth of John Paul II is examined in an overview of several crucial points. There are no other sour...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Abortion from a Kantian Point of View

In this argumentative paper of five pages the Kantian normality perspective is employed to argue that abortion is not always wrong...