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The Justin Ellsworth Case (Analysis)

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

Robert Frost: Life and Poetry

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

Franklin and Douglass

men and the student or this writer/researcher. In relationship to the importance of these two individuals, in the history of the...

“The Interruption of Everything” and the Realities of Middle Life

first consideration at least, obsessed with little other than work and golf. Marilyns children are grown and she has little to do...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...

Philosophical Problems of Cartesian Circle

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

Gang Life Q and A

as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...

Perceived Injustice in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi

voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...

Essence is Preceded by Existence

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Philosophical Perspectives

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Justified True Belief as Knowledge A Philosophical Inquiry

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

Is There Ever a Justification for Terrorism?

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and the Moral Questions It Raises

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...