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Crime and Victim Precipitation

But during the 1980s, the concept of victimology and victim precipitation was attacked, especially in cases of rape, by feminists ...

Reasons for Predatory Crime and How to Prevent It

up indifferent and hostile as well (Anonymous, 1996). "Growing up in such families is like being raised by a pack of wolves," the ...

Personal Ethical Code Design

used to test ethics go to something called a lying promise. If one decides it is always right to tell the truth, what if someone i...

Theology and the Works of Flannery O'Connor

providing specific Biblical texts, which the student can readily do, we can see that her entire foundation was one that struggled ...

An Agenda 21 Overview

In three pages the UN concepts for sustainable environmental development are considered and include program goals. Two sources ar...

Sociology Defined

sociology. Sociologys most basic definition is that it is a social science that is "about" people, that it is the study of humani...

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

'Dollarization' Debate

economies, have often turned to more stable for currencies, or the assets within those currencies (McTigue, 1999). In its most bas...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Karl Marx and Economic Determinism

angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...

What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

Overview of the Generation Gap

[was] ...especially intense and disruptive" (Smith, 2000). The 1960s and early 1970s saw the division between generations was base...

Vanishing Point Film and Existentialism

on the Today show, but most will die before that time. The speedometer on the car can indeed represent life and how or why one can...

Religious Connotations of 'Just War'

with holy wars that are most familiar to Westerners are in the Old Testament. Exodus 32:27 tells of how God ordered the destructio...

Waste Land in the Works of Mason and Fitzgerald

to him. He merely knows that without his job he is lost, but he doesnt have the insight to look inward for the answers....

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

Antenna Levitation and Human Diamagnetism Gravity

Gravity and Levitation" really does exist, however, point out that when this phrase is analyzed word-by-word we have a road map to...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Multicultural Society, the Law, and Liberalism

In fourteen pages this paper discusses jurisprudence in a consideration of how contradictions can emerge in a multicultural societ...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Developmental Psychology and Adolescence

characteristic called magical thinking which suggests that there is a belief that one is magically protected from dangers and that...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Discussion of Corporate Culture

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...

2 US Supreme Court Cases on 'Life and Liberty'

terminated, or were about to terminate, such aid without prior notice and hearing, thereby denying them due process of law" (Goldb...

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and Kingship

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Freedom

man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...

Kings and Kingship in the Old Testament

repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...

Happiness as Viewed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

Analyzing the Biblical Eve

the traditional interpretation of Eve as the originator of all sin and death for the human race. However, the student may wish to ...