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Essays 241 - 270

Socrates, Euthyphro and Crito

In eight pages this report examines Socrates' dialogues with Crito and Euthyphro and also examines the accusations against him in ...

Gorgias by Plato, Justice and 'the Good Life'

In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...

Leisure Pursuits, Cultural Practices, and Their Primary Motivation

In six pages this paper discusses how prestige is the motivating force for leisure pursuits and cultural practices with travel and...

The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman

politics, if at all? (Happ ppg). Folly Tuchman indicated in her book that one of the criteria for the misgovernment to be classif...

The Issue of Censorship and Applying it to Modern Literature

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the application of censorship principles to the books of J.K. Rowling. ...

Collective Action as a Form of Governance

courts cannot always be the only option. Some options include appealing to the executive branch and working with others through co...

The Hours

situation and her death. In addition, Cunningham illustrates the importance of the subject of suicide, setting the stage for under...

Understanding the City

the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dyn...

Constitutional Violations by Police

attorney, who was present by then; 4) They made an extended search of the premises, far beyond what was reasonable and necessary-i...

Wanting to Belong

hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...

Objectivity And Baconian Philosophy

mans capacity for creating deceptive notions with his Idols of the Tribe, which he attributes as being applicable only to the huma...

Fifty-Two Doctrines Explained

each chapter to help the reader discover what they have learned. There is a harmony to the book in that it begins with a discuss...

To Be (long) or Not to Be (Long)

the idea that as father and son they belong together and belong to the same family group, but at the same time, as individuals, th...

Cultural Destruction and Personal Wealth

In five pages this paper examines the social emphasis upon personal wealth and argues that this pursuit is culturally destructive....

'Pursuit of Happiness' According to Thomas Jefferson

In six pages this paper discusses how the 'pursuit of happiness' was used and interpreted by Thomas Jefferson. Three sources are ...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

Humanity and Injustice in Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills

Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills provide studies on issues of injustice and innate humanity, which shine through even ...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

Book Report on Showdown by John H. Lenihan

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

Team and Group Dynamics

The white football players talk of boycotting practice because they are certain that the black coach will not allow them to play. ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

China of the 20th Century and the Connection Between Property and the Individual

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

Overview of the 'New South Africa'

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...

Girls v. Boys and Different Socialization Expectations in an Academic Setting

male and female children. They contend that these differences are the result of differences in socialization. Observation of chi...