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Religion and Identity

Being raised in the Christian faith there are certain principles which one takes for granted, the student might wish to expound up...

Identities in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Cloning Argument of Mary Warnock

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

Socrates and Callicles Dialogue

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

Outsiders' Role in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Perceptions and Awareness of Aesthetics

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

Social Construct of Gender Identity and Illusion

Indeed, boys tend to like football and rough house almost from birth where girls seem to mature into beings who like to talk on th...

Identity and American Assimilation in My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

the daughters have difficulty understanding their mothers past lives and their perspectives on their daughters lives. The daughter...

Hong Kong's Economic and Social Changes

Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as "mature," rather than developing. As such, their economies are well-established an...

Thematic Comparative Analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Hybridity and Creative Identity as Described in Borderlands and Toni Morrison's Sula

related to sexist elements in society. Within her work are the essential themes used in "African-American and expressive enterpris...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

Great Britain and the Debate Between National Identity and Multiculturalism

in universities" (Higham, 1999, p. 143). It is not conceptualized in Great Britain, as it is in the US as a blueprint for society....

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Literature, Poetry, and Identity Themes

an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

Examining Debates Among Competing Philosophies

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

Identity Development by Humans

In these instances, states Erikson, if the mistrust is severe enough the child will give up ever having his needs met and may inte...

Socrates' Influence

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

National Identity and How It is Constructed

relate to the historical process and detail of national identity; and those which approach the matter from a more theoretical pers...

Deaf People and Cultural Longing in Deaf in America by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries

that hearing people cannot comprehend. Their circumstances have made it necessary to develop their own form of communications. S...

Rene Descartes and Dualism

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Developmental Identity

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

Worldviews and Storytelling

their lives more worthwhile. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons account ...