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Ancient Greek Mythological Heroes and Episode II of Star Wars

still just one being who is in constant struggle with his own existence. When determining who truly exercises power in an a...

Life, Death, and the Afterlife

down to fundamental postulates. When this stage in our analysis has been reached it becomes impossible to further simplify the is...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Pentagon Families and Aid from the Bureaucracy

districts near New York City for example, began to collect funds and they also rounded up needed supplies. At some point, the work...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Osmosis Defined

water supply which may be performed by their water-management system. He adds: "Evaporation from the leaves pulls water to the top...

Media Perception Differences

Okay, a few people noticed that there was symbolism that could be indicative of homosexuality and so forth. Does that make a chara...

J.S. Mill's 'On Liberty' and Abortion

issue. The extreme range of emotions that are involved in the debate concerning abortion can be difficult for the woman in a situ...

Love According to Plato

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

Private Language and Wittgenstein's Theories

green. The general assumption is that everything that is the color of a leaf is green, but the experiential views of that color m...

Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Communist Manifesto Commentary

the one thing Marx did not account for in his writings was the basic nature of Man. Perhaps he assumed, and maybe he was an optimi...

'The Country Girls' and 'The Dead'

village. Even though most of the protests...

Family Diversification and Structure Study

In five pages this paper applies theory to the changing family structure and argues that its diversification makes the concept 'no...

Twenty First Century Political Issues

when it came to abortion rights. Although the rules and laws for owning guns and having abortions exist, different ways of...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Anonymous 'The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell(e)' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

a temporary reprieve. She gave him one year and one day to determine what a woman desires. If he was able to successfully answer...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

'Nation State' Definition

the nation occupy the same area on the surface of Earth, a nation-state exists. In a multi-racial nation, fragmentation into eth...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

Mahatma Gandhi's 'Goodl Life' According to Aristotle

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

Foreign Trade Zone Benefits

tax free. Of course, it is a bit more complex than that . Under zone procedures, foreign and domestic merchandise are allow...

'Personhood' and Dolphins

learn; can retain and recall information? 9) can solve complicated problems with analytical thought? 10) has the capacity for com...

Ecological Theory of Feminism

the path has become terribly burdensome. If women are to shed their oppressed existence, then it must first be acknowledged that ...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Good and Bad, Good and Evil According to Friedrich Nietzsche

the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...

Sustaining Development and Buddhist Economics

existence (Schumacher, 1999). This is a good point. Work is produced by individuals but it often serves others outside of the comp...