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Is Plot a Function of Character or Is the Opposite True?

the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...

Homology

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the homology concept in a consideration of vertebrate embryos and Charles Darwin'...

A Tight Oligopoly Airline Industry Model

employ. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires not only that airlines post travel schedules, but that they adhere to ...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Should the Rich Be Responsible for the Impoverished?

at an outdoor caf? for lunch. As you begin talking, a very articulate homeless person comes up to your table and asks for money. T...

Should the US Navy Withdraw from the Island of Vieques?

The purpose here is to assess the arguments of each side. The Dispute Residents claim that the Navys use of Vieques as a...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Benefits of Adoption by Gays

interesting to see that on one denies the fact that gays just as heterosexuals will be able to provide love for the child as well...

Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and its Contemporary Relevance

he ran for mayor of New York City but lost (2001). Roosevelt would go on in politics and eventually land himself the job as the Vi...

Opposition to Islamic Beliefs

their lifetime. Presumably this requirement is for the spiritual edification of the Islamic adherent. During the ten days of rites...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

Dennis Jett's Why Peacekeeping Fails

the foreign service, originally wrote the book as a dissertation for his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of W...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Can the Issues of Human Rights Be Considered Valid?

free citizens to own and inherit property as well as to be free from excessive taxation (1997). It created the right of widows who...

Science of Sociology

the status of a full scientific enterprise. The author states that its essential flaw is its failure to accept its own limitations...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

A Privacy Issue

policy of individual rights. However, those rights, it would seem, are the very ones that are being used against the United States...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Kathleen Blee's Women of the Klan

before World War I, but by all accounts they were not as organized, nor prolific as they became after the war. Why was this, Blee ...

Plutocratic USA

than governments that are controlled by a single class, select group or single person, such as a monarch (Democracy, 2002). In lat...

John Paul II's The Gospel of Life Evangelium vitae

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

Legal Issues and E-Commerce

law is relatively simple. However, copyright law is complex, especially when applied to the Internet. II. Copyright Laws and Pro...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Democratization is Not Encouraged by Neoliberalism

has covered the globe in recent years as globalisation has increased throughout the world. Neoliberalism is the trend in the worl...

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...

The Life and Leadership of Anwar Sadat

It was early in the year 1973 when Anwar Sadat chose to go to war against Israel. At that point "he was being criticized by stude...