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Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Waste Land in the Works of Mason and Fitzgerald

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

Developmental Psychology and Adolescence

characteristic called magical thinking which suggests that there is a belief that one is magically protected from dangers and that...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Discussion of Corporate Culture

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and Kingship

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

Overview of the Generation Gap

[was] ...especially intense and disruptive" (Smith, 2000). The 1960s and early 1970s saw the division between generations was base...

Antenna Levitation and Human Diamagnetism Gravity

Gravity and Levitation" really does exist, however, point out that when this phrase is analyzed word-by-word we have a road map to...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Multicultural Society, the Law, and Liberalism

In fourteen pages this paper discusses jurisprudence in a consideration of how contradictions can emerge in a multicultural societ...

'Dollarization' Debate

economies, have often turned to more stable for currencies, or the assets within those currencies (McTigue, 1999). In its most bas...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Karl Marx and Economic Determinism

angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...

Sociology Defined

sociology. Sociologys most basic definition is that it is a social science that is "about" people, that it is the study of humani...

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Happiness as Viewed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

Catholic Tradition Aspects

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

Cooley's Looking Glass Self Theory

-perception. Cooleys Theory: Overview, Critiques and Assessment [The first part of the "body" of the paper should explain who Cool...

The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Jan Vermeer

its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...

Sociological Phenomena Observed

the most part, the people appeared to be upper middle class. I believe this to be true due to the way in which they were dressed a...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Freedom

man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...

US Republican Government Assessment

decentralized is the fact that politically, regions are significantly divided, so much so that election outcomes can be predicted ...

Spirituality and Liberation Theology

buggy rides. In the future, people may have flying machines that make the automobile look antiquated. Yet, is this really liberati...