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Great Lakes Region and Oil Drilling

2001). That point alone is enough to render the expedition ridiculous. For just a temporary fix, a lot of risk would be taken....

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and its Problems

his own creative energy to produce a great career for himself, but he in many ways conformed. He conformed to the needs of society...

Regulating Financial Services in E-Commerce.

This research paper addresses problems that can arise in the regulation of the on-line financial services industry. The author fo...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

Dialect Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...

Why Affirmative Action Does Not Work

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument that Affirmative Action as it presently exists does not work as the initial policy...

Bell Curve Negation and Flaws in IQ Testing

entitled "Does Welfare Bring More Babies?" All of these works caused a stir and there was an appropriate backlash. One of Murray...

Overview of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

In five pages this research paper considers embryonic stem cells and current research in this area and how it represents therapeut...

Pericles' Funeral Oration

In an essay consisting of five pages the comment that city is the best teacher of man by ancient Greek poet Simonides is examined ...

Biology and Culture

of human culture, definitional dilemmas might be simplified since primate societies are not expected to include things such as val...

Court of Law and Court of Equity

In five pages a fictitious scenario is presented in order to consider the distinction between 'law' and 'equity' court and how arg...

One Perspective on Global Warming

This comprehensive paper opposes the general thinking on global warming. Opponents to the concept are noted and arguments are disc...

Homosexuality and How It Evolved

to oppose their "lifestyle choice." Yet, with mounting scientific evidence, this cultural phenomenon of same-sex love has emerged ...

Government Sources and Humanitarian Aid

and advice. Yet, when it is a larger group, things get a bit more complex. When the people in need is a...

Organ Donation Appeals

by the patient, or in the case of trauma, by the patients family. One might wonder, if it is our built in fear of death, or super...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

The Workplace and Affirmative Action

everyone had a chance to be hired for the same jobs, and to receive the same pay and treatment as everyone else. The exploration o...

Spirituality is Not Heightened by Cultural Diversity

In five pages an article discussing cultural diversity is applied to an argument that spirituality is not heightened by cultural d...

Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

A Speech in Support of the Iraq War

the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

Dennis Jett's Why Peacekeeping Fails

the foreign service, originally wrote the book as a dissertation for his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of W...

Opposition to Islamic Beliefs

their lifetime. Presumably this requirement is for the spiritual edification of the Islamic adherent. During the ten days of rites...

Homology

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the homology concept in a consideration of vertebrate embryos and Charles Darwin'...

Is Plot a Function of Character or Is the Opposite True?

the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...

Should the Rich Be Responsible for the Impoverished?

at an outdoor caf? for lunch. As you begin talking, a very articulate homeless person comes up to your table and asks for money. T...

Should the US Navy Withdraw from the Island of Vieques?

The purpose here is to assess the arguments of each side. The Dispute Residents claim that the Navys use of Vieques as a...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Benefits of Adoption by Gays

interesting to see that on one denies the fact that gays just as heterosexuals will be able to provide love for the child as well...