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Book IX in 'The Iliad' by Homer and Arguments of Ajax, Phoenix, and Odysseus

this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

Jonathan Spence's Presentation of The Taiping Revolution in God's Chinese Son The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...

The Argument About Cloning

as well as cloning to help the infertile reproduce. There is the argument that through cloning animals for consumption great heal...

Argument Against Affirmative Action State and Federal Government Policy

the recent Supreme Court of the United States ruling that "upheld the right of universities to consider race in admissions procedu...

Basic Argument Opposing Capital Punishment

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

Explication of the Poems 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins and 'The World is Too Much With Us' by William Wordsworth

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...

An Anti Abortion Argument

the fetus is alive and growing and therefore taking it out of the mothers womb kills it. If it is living, then ending that life is...

Sensory Perceptions and Descartes' Argument

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

Team Sports Equality Argument

REQUIREMENTS The safety standards which are customary for protection of the health and safety of males in sports and competitive ...

Marijuana Legalization Supporting Arguments

it made people violent and by the 1930s, the substance was illegal in all states (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). In 1936, Po...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Argument: A President's Gender Should Not Matter

majority of Americans - over 90% in some polls - say that the time has come to elect a woman President. Surprisingly, the traditio...

Argument for Pro-Life

a woman decides this is advisable (Ponnuru 37). Whatever the rhetoric that is involved in this argument, the bottom line is that s...

The Abortion Argument

the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...

Gay Discrimination is Wrong

immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...

An Argument Against Euthanasia

only as an abomination in the eyes of God but also as a practice replete with possibilities of adverse incentives for the medical ...

An Argument for a National Identification Card

what those horrors represented. This complacency is perhaps one of our greatest weaknesses. We must remind ourselves and those t...

An Argument for Vaccination Against Cervical Cancer

eradicate them. The defense response staged by our immune system includes the production of antibodies, blood proteins th...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Argument: Blackwater Should Not Be Above the Law

women, children, civilians and anyone who gets in their way (Scahill). In Fallujah, for instance, the American commander insisted ...

Assessment of Arguments Presented by Medea and Jason in Euripides’ Medea

Medea would also benefit: "What luckier chance could I have come across than this, An exile to marry the daughter of the king? It ...

Immigration: An Argument for Stepped Up Control Policies

million in 2006 (Pastor 12). While many immigrants, Mexican or otherwise, contribute substantially to U.S. society, they also dra...

Why a Draft Should be Implemented (Policy Argument)

there are many opposed to the concept. Yet, ironically, it is for that very reason why the proposal must be accepted. That is, the...

Argument: Prayer Does Not Belong in Public Schools

a hole in that wall. The purpose of public schools is to "educate, not to proselytize" (Gaylor). Advocates of prayers in public s...

One Classic Argument from The Crito

in a different time and place and almost seems like a fairy tale. Yet, if one were to consider that Socrates was a part of a cultu...

Argument: Under International Law, the Iraq War is Legal

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...

Argument: Trade Liberalization Does Not Lead to Environmental Damage

and resource-degrading activities - such as subsidies to agriculture, fishing and energy" (Trade liberalization, 1999). The WHO a...

Argument: We Should Reduce the Use of Plea Bargaining

of the process but refute others (LaFree, 1985). Specifically, defendants that were more "criminally experienced," as well as thos...