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Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Disintegrating Cultural Identity fo Aymara Peoples?

of society. In short, to outwardly encourage assimilation would be nothing short of advocating the quest for control. The ways i...

Psychology and Identity Approaches

people and in some way negates the assumption of uniqueness. Yet, psychologists recognize that while people are unique, there are ...

Contemporary World Search for Arab Identity

with mixed feelings. Many of the Arabs were displaced after the war after spending a lifetime building their identity in Jaffa. Wh...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Technological Connections and 'Cyberfeminism'

this Cyberfeminism, 2002). Cyberfeminism got its start in Australia during the early 1990s, when a group of artists and ac...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Immigrant Cultural Identity in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Pocho

home from school one day, looks at his house, and notes the following: "On the floor of the living room, where two of the girls sl...

The Natural by Bernard Malamud and Identity

implies that Roys tears at the end of the book signify his total defeat. However, Roys admission that he had never learned from pa...

Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Humor

literatures of the Native American Indians. There was a significant oral and narrative gamut of American culture which is both his...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Bhagavad Gita Use by Mahatma Gandhi

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

Importance of Graphic Design in Forging Corporate Identity

influential. Here we first need to what we mean by graphic art, and then at the way that modern corporate logos have developed m...

Self Identity and Nelson Mandela

quiet demeanor. And yet, this quiet, intelligent man has managed to accomplish great things in his life. He is known the world o...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

False Identities

beliefs based on which country is most dominant in the globalized society. Therefore, the strongest determines which features are ...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

The Development of Utilitarianism

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...