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A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of John Rawls and John Stuart Mill

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

Flawed Political Arguments in The Prince

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...

Anne Frank and Her Diary

that anyone of Jewish descent or faith were in terrible danger, yet they chose to stay, hoping that it would go away, or that God ...

Egoism and Deontology

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

Individual's Personal Duty to Country

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

Mr. V and a Nursing Ethics Case Study

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dust Bowl, and Families

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Aviation Problems involving Cockpit Motion and Auditory Perception

a handicapped capacity. The need to sense motion and sense it as quickly as possible can be said to place great demands on the hum...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

Humanism and Educational Philosophy

done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...

Twelve Step Meeting Philosophy

saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...

Mitchell Duneier's 'Sidewalk'

him with a direct window into their respective worlds. Stupidity, illiteracy or an absent work ethic has absolutely nothing to do...

Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass Lifestyles and Philosophies

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

What Soldiers Experienced During the Vietnam War

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

The Philosophy of Utilitariansim

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

Philosophies of William David Ross

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

European Countries' Differences

usually associated with the Roman Catholic Pope, his presence does not seem to effect the laws of the government as women in Ital...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

August Comte, Karl Marx, and Their Philosophies

He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...

Dave Pelzer's The Lost Boy

not large enough and therefore in these situations, generally speaking, those who abuse the system tend to sponsor or foster a gre...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Taking a Position on ''The Inequality Express' by Barry Bluestone

and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy

science or subjects in the humanities do not. Both classic philosophy and modern philosophy seem to make political philosophy a qu...