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Contributions of Philosopher William James

universe as heartily to assent to the evil that seems inherent in its details?" (Thought & Character, Volume I, Perry, 322) (Shull...

Woodrow Wilson's Designs on D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation'

In an argumentative essay consisting of 6 pages it is asserted that Wilson believed this racist film would serve to combat imperia...

Acquiring Virtue According to Aristotle

In four pages the ways in which Aristotle believes virtue is acquired within the perspective of prudence as discussed in his treat...

The Feminist Works Of Virginia Woolf

This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...

The Rights and Wrongs of Censorship

In a paper consisting of five pages art censorship is discussed in terms of its rights and wrongs along with the conformity of man...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

Post Civil Rights Movement and Black Leadership

In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...

Magnificent Disappointment by C. Mervyn Maxwell

a captain, before returning home to his family. Miller was never truly comfortable with skepticism and in 1816, he returned to his...

Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Thurgood Marshall

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

The Historical Roots of the Impetus for the Declaration of Independence

This six page paper traces the impetus for the U.S. Declaration of Independence to the Magna Carta and to the Bible itself. The ...

The Assimilation of the Irish

to make new lives for themselves after leaving behind all they had ever known, being fully aware upon leaving that they likely wou...

Contemporary History, the Jews, and Zionism

Brandeis, and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The conference is scheduled to reconvene in Jerusalem May 18-21, 19...

Absence of Facial Expression in Tony Morrison's Novel Beloved

This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...

'Is America Falling Apart?' by Anthony Burgess

In five pages Anthony Burgess's attempts to answer this question in an insightful article along with the reasons why he might beli...

Napoleon as Seen by Felix Markham

This paper provides a reading of Felix Markham's book, Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe. This five page paper has no addition...

Seeing Voices A Journey Into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

In two pages this text is examined in a brief overview that focuses upon its portrayal of the social acceptance of the deaf commun...

Standing Buddha Statue Seen on a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art VII

In about three pages reaction and analysis to this fifth century Indian statue are presented. There is the inclusion of a black a...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Motifs of the Sea and 'Seeing'

In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

The King as Seen by Aristotle and Aquinas

The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....

The Idea of Security as Thomas Hobbes Would Have Seen It

This 10 page paper explores how Thomas Hobbes ideas might be applied to the problem of modern security. The bibliography lists 4 s...

Socrates as Seen Through the Eyes of Plato and as Presented in Phaedo, Protagoras, and Meno

In three pages this paper discusses how Socrates can be studied by reading the dialogues of his most famous student. There are no...

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

of the world around them and little visual evaluative tools, but over the course of just the first few months, this young child is...

What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan

In five pages this paper reviews the text written by a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. One source is ...

Turn of the Century Feminism as Seen in Chopin and Woolf

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

Seeing Macbeth Through Machiavelli's Eyes

In six pages the Machiavellian approach is applied to Macbeth and examines the Lord and Lady's actions in comparison with Machiave...

Female Coming of Age as Seen in West Indian Literature

family life. Annie John can be seen as a typical; adolescent, not only of Antigua or of West India, but of adolescents as a whol...

A Review of Marling's Book, As Seen on TV

ODonoghue, who collects paint-by-numbers pictures, calls them a "great metaphor for life in rigid MeCarthy America. You stayed in...

Morality As Seen by Austustinians and Thomists

Thomists and Augustinians are concerned primarily with issues of morality. This paper examines the two theologies and how they vie...

Drawbacks of Narration As Seen in Two Works By Conde and Carpentier

and an unquenchable desire to portray her inner pain, Conde favored a more simplistic approach to convey the immense pain and suff...

Seeing Rent Control from Both Sides

In five pages this paper examines the rent control argument from both sides and advocates a government agency to control high rent...