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Radical Judaism

In five pages the seventh chapter of Huston Smith's The World's Religions is examined in a consideration of Judaism, prophecy, and...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850

freedom was the Mason-Dixon; now it was moved all the way to Canada. Bounty hunters took full advantage of this operation by gene...

W.H. Auden, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso

In five pages this report considers W.H. Auden's poetry line 'Art is a lie that tells the truth' within the contexts of painting b...

Four Noble Truths, Meditation, and Buddhism

In two pages the Four Noble Truths and how meditation fits into these beliefs are discussed in an examination of Buddhism, with th...

4 Noble Truths and the Doctrine of Dependent Origin

In two pages this paper examines the connection between the Buddhist 4 Noble Truths and the Doctrine of Dependent Origin. Two sou...

Philosophy Paper Sample on Junger, Zola, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche

been warriors but are now too docile for their own survival. Those who are poor are not poor because of the system, but are poor b...

Economic, Political, and Sociocultural Values in Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Animal Farm by George Orwell, King Lear by William Shakespeare

subdivide his kingdom amongst his trio of daughters, Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia based upon their protestations of love for him. ...

Elements of Screwball Film Comedy

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare and Truth Searching

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

Buddhism and the Second Noble Truth

a "thirst for something" (Samudaya, 2004). As this suggests, the Buddhist view is that the primary cause of human suffering is a...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Statesmanship in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Truth, the 'Examined Life,' and Socrates

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

The Impact of Female Writers in Early American Society

to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...

A 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' Excerpt

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

Literature, the Human Condition, and Universal Truths

themselves, Voltaires message is clear: these human flaws of vanity, fickleness, greed, and misplaced optimism will never die and ...

Justice and Truth in Death and the Maiden by Dorfman and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main c...

Indian Philosophy and the Connection Between Suffering and Craving

Craving can also be related to karma, a karma consisting of bodily karma, vocal karma and mental karma, each defined below:...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

'Cosmos' of Parmenides

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...

Media Distortion

to take lightly. However, it appears that those who report the news do not take into consideration the very lives their stories a...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Truth and Time in the Confessions of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper considers time and truth as conceptualized by St. Augustine in Confessions first 8 books. Four sources a...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...