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Happiness, Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotle

not likely to live a pleasant life unless you practice moderation; the Epicurean philosophy was an argument for a traditionally mo...

Sexuality and Differing Gender Perceptions

Womens magazines are not the only entity attempting to homogenize the male/female experience, however. Numerous...

Survey Questions on Corporate Governance

CWM approach is common in "Continental European and Japanese equity markets" (Eiteman, Stonehill and Moffett, 2001; p. 7), but is ...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

Perception and Logic in Philosophy

conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...

Comparing Siegfried Kracauer's Reality to Arnheim's Perceptions

he sees and thinks of his grandmother and has nothing to do with the present moment until the grandmother speaks (Widoger 22-23). ...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

How the Angel Was Perceived by the Townspeople in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

The Central Ideas of David Hume

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

Immunizations, Current Knowledge, and Mass Media

reported unusually harsh outbreaks of influenza and the potential for harm, increases in the pursuit of immunizations in young chi...

Importance of the Trials of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

reflect upon. That is, at the time, there was a significant fear of communism. Many can look back to the Second World War when Hit...

Overview of Jungian Psychology

brought to mind and also repressed memories (Boeree, 2002). It can be argued that part of the problem in Jungs recognition or the...

Skiing and Snowshoeing Sensory Perceptions

friends; the sound of the skiers whooshing down the hill; the sound of cars moving up into the parking lot; the sound of bus tour ...

Mental Illness Attitudes in a Correlational Analysis

social distance. The researchers found that individuals with some knowledge of mental illness were more likely to apply stereotyp...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Marketing and Advertising in the Media

marketing as these are my preferred brands. The advertisements of this type may not be the trigger of the initial desire for these...

Market Perception Diffferences in Hong Kong and London Regarding Levi Jeans

to China, a country that supplies a great deal of textiles to the world. However, when we look at these two markets, there may b...

U.S. Democracy and Worldviews

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Perceptions of Administrators and Faculty Regarding Distance Education

limited instructional support to faculty in distance education. 3. Faculty members are concerned about the availability of instruc...

A Consideration of Alternative Dispute Resolution

parties to decide what the resolution of the dispute will be; mediation is a form of negotiation (Marcellino, 2004). Arbitration...

American Democracy Legitimacy and Global Perceptions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...

Gender and Portrayal by the Media

to see such subjects as homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism, and transgenderism. These are concepts that run counter to ou...

Adolescent Psychology and Family Dysfunction

alcohol or substance abuse, and suicidal ideation, it is important to assess some of the views of maternal attachment, the impacts...

U.S. History and the Definitive Component of Race

reveal that there are others involved in slavery at the time. Hoffman explores the concept of white slavery. The notion that there...

Organizational Systems of the McDonald's Fast Food Chain

The idea of serving food very quickly was fairly new at this time. Other burger joints saw food made to order. The ideas of fast...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Industrialization and Charles Dickens' Hard Times

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

Media Relations and Public Perception

in Chicago. These exhibition are a success as a result of the attendees that are attracted and the exhibitors that want to attend ...