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Evolution, Dinosaurs, and Birds

in the mountains of China, at the margin of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, and in the sweltering jungles of Laos and Thailand (...

Montclair, New Jersey's Municipal Demographics

In six pages this typical suburban U.S. town is examined in a consideration of its municipal demographics including its geography,...

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

Thomas Shadwell and John Dryden's Attacks Represented by the Character 'Mac Flecnoe'

In five pages this paper reveals how Dryden's character development of Mac Flecnoe is a scathing attack upon one of his contempora...

Marxism's Contemporary Relevance

In five pages this paper discusses Marxism and its sociological and economic concepts with social stratification, capitalism, alie...

Human Nature According to Edmund Burke and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper discusses human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke in a consideratio...

Discrediting the Predictions of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how historians and contemporary history have combined to discredit the global revolution predict...

The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

In eight pages this text is considered within the context of contemporary capitalist society. There are no other sources listed....

Max Weber and Karl Marx on Capitalism

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...

Poverty and the Social Theories of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx

In fourteen pages this paper evaluates the applicability of the sociological perspectives of theorists Marx, Weber, and Durkheim t...

Alienation and Anomie

In five pages contemporary relevance is considered in a comparative analysis of the alienation concept of Karl Marx and the anomie...

Moral Development Theories and Childhood 2

In twelve pages the moral development theories of Carol Gilligan, Piaget, and Kohlberg are supported in a contemporary literature ...

How to Get Along With Difficult People by Florence Littauer

side of life and can be overly critical of others. Not surprisingly, it is not unusual for this to lead to a tendency toward depre...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Roman Government

This paper considers the need for evolution in Rome’s government. Caesar Augustus was particularly successful in adjusting for co...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Economic Understanding in the 21st Century

even now leading to a resurgence in the popularity of Keynesian economics. In addition to this influence upon economic thought an...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Goldthorpe v Logan - An Examination

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Goldthorpe v Logan. Contract law in the contemporary sense is examined through this...

Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...