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Humanity, Values, and Valuing

Indeed, the issues behind ethics and morality are critical to defining what meaning truly represents. One who has addressed these...

Towneley Cycle's Wakefield Mystery Plays of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

eventually became an annual summer feast and dramatic event. "The Towneley Cycle proclaimed in its genesis a belief in the Christi...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

Baroque and Enlightenment Period Differences

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and 20th Century

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares the concepts of science, philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and understand...

Reality and Dreams in the Humanity of John Milton's Works

In five pages John Milton's 'Lycidas,' 'Areopagitica,' and 'Of Education' are examined in a consideration of humanity and the ten...

Humanity, the Universe and its Hierarchy

then leads to living and non-living matter. Can there be such a distinction? If all matter is the result of the interaction of mo...

Humanity and the Impact of Y2K

In four pages this paper discusses how humanity will be impacted by Y2K issues with such topics as interdependence oon others, ren...

Soils Warning Issued by World Scientists

pavement (Foster, 1998). Humankind has, interestingly, been aware of potential impacts to the worlds soils for some time. Even t...

What Life Is

In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...

Overview of Dr. Martin Luther King

In two pages the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King in terms of the civil rights movement and humanity are the focus of thi...

Vitruvian Man and Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

In four pages this paper examines these paintings' 'imperfections' and what they may perhaps reveal about the Renaissance concepts...

Competitive Tool of Education

In two pages technology and humanities education are examined from the perspective of the global marketplace with their personal b...

Globalization's Human Benefits

engineering, from the conditions of financial stability to environmental degradation, the fate and fortune of each of us are thoro...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

Threats, Conflicts, and Problems of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so...

Two Narratives on Autonomy and Fate

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Military Ethics, Haiti, and Captain Rockwood

The weight of a mans conscience can be unbearable, as was made quite obvious by Rockwoods entanglement with direct military orders...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE

such each person contributes much like the spokes on a wheel or the gears in a machine. Even emotion is regulated and defined by a...

El Llano en Llamas by Juan Rulfo

aspects of cultural discord, having so obviously addressed the inherent shortcomings associated with White Privilege. Indeed, it ...

Benevolence and Confucius

trees, grass and animals continually suffer the ravages of an uncaring population, who, in all respects, is supposed to see that t...

Propriety Rule, Socrates, and Confucius

In five pages Confucian concepts of 'man of humanity' and 'rule of propriety' are considered with the incorporation of Socrates' p...

Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

In five pages this novel and the humanity it depicts within are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Nonhuman Primates, Violent and Nonviolent Cultural Evidence

so what are they and what purpose do they serve in the survival of the species? What conclusions may be reached. All of these fact...

Humanity Formula of Immanuel Kant

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...