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Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Definitions

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Patons

And so, through the words of Alan Paton the reader is transported into the world of apartheid, and the grim realities that accompa...

Student Case Study on Slade

and accepted some dishonest practices, such as punching time cards for each other so that they may arrive later or leave early. It...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

PC Industry and the Dominant Threat Posed by Microsoft

among his competitors who cry foul to such underhanded strategy. The antitrust lawsuit slapped on the Microsoft Chairman and Chie...

What it Means to Be Creative

be very discouraging and lead many people to give up on a dream of being an artist or a writer or anything else that calls for the...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

Lussier and Achua's Leadership Theories

it can be said. He could tell in a fifteen minute interview whether the potential hire was going to fit well with the team that wa...

Australia and Socialism

Yet its implied here. In most western nations (especially democratic and somewhat socialist nations), its implied that when a popu...

Johnson, Plantinga, and Hicks on Soul Making and Free Will

man defines himself as moral, good, and soulful (Hick). God has defined a purpose for humanity that is essential to mans forma...

Anthony Rotundo's American Manhood

be a norm, whether one is discussing a Marmot or a Human. However, that being said, of course, there is a lot more going on in the...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Modernity and Fashion's Role

consumerism bred upon itself (Finkelstein, 2004). It attracted mainly young men who were educated by the state "into believing in...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

1840s' America and the Transition to a Regime Pro Party and Pro Democratic

place within society. Hamilton effectively summed up the Federalist viewpoint when he remarked that the countrys laws could not b...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...

Champion of Civil Rights: W.E.B. Du Bois

to the early twentieth-century social mainstream. Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaica...

Early Perceptions of Mental Illness

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

"Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

The Psychology of Human Behavior

Freedom is cherished the world over. Not all that cherish freedom, however, actually have it. Unfortunately, there is often an i...

Evolutions in Operations Management

the most efficient work methods and then organising the and controlling workers to ensure maximum efficiency (Huczyniski and Bucha...

Lessons Learned in Discrimination

weekend and told me in private that the girl was "loaded", and that her mother had given her $500 to spend on the shopping trip in...

A Scenario Analysis Using Morgan's Metaphors

are inherently composed of a wide variety of interacting systems, each of which is composed of a number of policies, processes, an...

Negotiation and Communication

a debate or argument, a useful negotiation involves the careful interplay of communication strategies, so as to facilitate the bes...

Group Work - Benefits and Drawbacks

down to discuss the material and our thoughts about it. This discussion allowed us to brainstorm, explore different opinions, and ...

Ecological Footprint - The Value of the Model

began to question my own behavior and activities in regards to how environmentally friendly they were. In other words, by calculat...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....