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Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

Manuel Castells' IT Theory Evaluation

internet is the centre of communications and social function for society from social communications to the conducting of commerce....

Worldwide Negative Effects of Media Advances

more beneficial than the solitary activity of watching television, or have people merely altered their focus from one screen to an...

Questions on the History of China

huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...

Possibilities and Blight of Cell Phones

drunk. Some states have made driving and using a cell phone illegal, but most states do not. This professor also states how stu...

Ancient History's Contemporary Social Influence

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

Analyzing Oliver Parker's Film Version of Othello

military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...

Relations Between the United States and Japan Since the Mid 1800s

Japanese immigration to the U.S. The new arrivals were welcomed into their new country not with open arms but with rampant racism...

Voltaire's Candide, Misogyny, and Gender Bias

his audience, and this is something that will probably change the world for the better. He wants to display evil in such a way tha...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Child Molestation and Deviance

is it readily connected to the original incident. Similarly, perhaps the child grows up and engages in drug and/or alcohol abuse ...

Arguing for Aggressive Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment

1996). It is the root cause of epidemics of bronchiolitis and pneumonia and is a serious threat to life of infants younger than o...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Using Drugs and Social Deviance

who may then need assistance from the government. They put a burden on society if they steal and harm others in an attempt to get ...

Arguing Against Genetic Engineering

Even if we ignore the more controversial areas of genetic engineering, areas such as genetic engineering targeting the human...

Gay Lifestyle's Socioeconomic Costs

is done. Some might be curious about homosexual sex. In part, these explorations are encouraged by media. Jenkins (2005) charges f...

A 'Madame Bovary' Marxist Interpretation

first two or three years" (Flaubert, 1982, 4). Clearly, everything came down to money not only for Emma but for Charles as well. I...

Labor Unions and Strikes

in terms of labor unions. These individuals had to endure extremely long days in deplorable conditions. When the miners first tr...

Chinese Americans and Discrimination

that time, Chinese workers were brought in to help with the U.S. war effort (OConnor, 2004). Those that werent hired for plants or...

Early 20th Century's Neoclassical Music and its Anti Romantic Elements

codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...

A Greece Overview

During the second millennium B.C.E., these folks invaded the Peninsula (now Greece) and the Aegean islands, effectively displacing...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

An Analysis of The God That Sucked by Thomas Frank" – Impact Upon Understanding Of Or Concern About The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth

whenever a civilized society is involved. Indeed, the very notion of social justice often leads directly to social injustice, ina...

'True Story of Ah Q' by Lu Xun

In twelve pages this paper discusses Lu Xun's texts and the issues resulting in the early twentieth century Chinese society collap...

Comparative Analysis of Ancient Greek Women and Contemporary Culture

This paper examines the limitations which continue to exist in terms of women's roles in ancient Greek society and in the present ...

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

So, if our stone age ancestors did not give up their hunter-gather lifestyle and invent agriculture in order to improve their life...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Ethical Relativism

ethical actions presses one to determine if the actions are right or wrong based solely upon to what one is accustomed. This, the...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...