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Joseph Conrad's Writings and Natural Africa's Role

to cultures outside of our own is limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the ...

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

Democracy and Education

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

Questions Regarding Personal Ethics

a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...

Did Aristotle Value Politics Less Than Materialism and Feelings?

law, and politics" (Anonymous, 2001). According to Aristotelian conjecture, those who compromise their political morality do so i...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Federalism in Current Events

nations highest court. For them, it would have been a nonsensical question. A little, or even a lot, of aid flowing incidentally t...

Happiness is a Serious Problem by Dennis Prager

1989). Competition is one of the many aspects upon which people base their happiness, a reality Prager (1999) says all but defeat...

U.S. Antiterrorism Tactics After September 11, 2001

because of the impact they have on personal freedoms. Some proclaim, in fact that such provisions are simply another excuse for "...

Comparative Analysis of Hegel and Kant

In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...

Situations in Which People Are Subjected to Different Treatment and Justice

which individuals who make larger contributions to projects also reap the larger benefits or acclimation and people generally do n...

Totalizing Theories Replaced by Postmodern Theories

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

The Happiness Key According to Aristotle

it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...

The Cultural Heritage of the West and Its Ancient Roots

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

The Issue of Equality and Efforts to Achieve Equality

be representative numbers of minorities within the results. Feminists and activist groups not only took to the equality of opportu...

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 ...

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...

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...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Comparative Analysis of Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era and Major Problems in American History Since 1945

This paper explores the concepts and themes featured in these texts in a comparative analysis consisting of four pages. Two sourc...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Human Nature and Society

This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...

Teacher or Leader John F. Kennedy

In five pages this paper considers the attributes of JFK in order to make a determination if he was more teacher or leader with sp...

First World War and Gendered War Perspectives

In ten pages this paper examines the concept of warfare in a consideration of the differing views between men and women regarding ...