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The Nature of Divorce

When looking at various phenomena in society, there are often individual and social factors at work. This paper looks at both and...

Value of College Education

This essay identifies the benefits of higher education to the individual and to the society. The writer comments on the necessity ...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

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...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Sweatshops

world. Soon after the turn of the century, and after the Triangle Factory fire, a lot has been done to assure that safe conditions...

An Individual's Negative Navy Experience

received my first paycheck, I was stunned. Id expected taxes to be taken out; what I hadnt expected was that other things would be...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Exploring Transsexuality and its Modern World Implications

issues involve health and human welfare, paternity and maternity claims, and military and personal-identification regulations amon...

Philosophers of the Romantic Age

philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...

Restrictive Society in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper discusses the restrictions 19th century society placed upon individuals within the context of these liter...

Morality and the Devil

instead. The point is that you can commit those acts if you are willing to pay the established price. Are you willing to do what...

Individual and Societal Effects of Organized Crime

corruption is seen as nothing more than the standard way of operating various government agencies. Most of the former Eastern Blo...

Examination of Cocaine and its Effects

In five pages this report examines cocaine in terms of its effect both on the individual as well as society. Seven sources are ci...

How Anorexia in Featured in Texts by Cathi Hanauer and Margaret Atwood

In five pages anorexia as reflected in My Sister's Bones by Hanauer and The Edible Woman by Atwood are compared and contrasted in ...

Human Nature as Perceived by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper discusses Friedrich Nietzsche's views on history for life within the context of the statement 'Life is wh...

The Overworked American by Juliet Shor

In six pages this paper discusses the massive increases of the American workload and its effects upon society and the individual. ...

The Handicapped Individual's Societal Role

The writer examines the factor of self actualization within the life of a physically disabled person and how these individuals can...

Social Structure and Personal Ethics

aids in the survival of that society. However, from a moral standpoint, societies have frequently endorsed institutions and behavi...

US and an Individual's 'Right to Die'

In seven pages this paper presents the argument that all individuals regardless of whether or not they are suffering from a deadly...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

Arab Social Attitudes About Handicapped Individuals

In eight pages this paper considers how developed nations regard the handicapped in a discussion of how the Arab society differs i...

A World Literature Philosophy Symposium

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

Suppressing the Individual in Works by John Brunner and Margaret Atwood

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which society suppresses the individual as represented in Brunner's 'The Sheep Loo...

Analytical Overview of Utopia by Sir Thomas More

both Baker and Bruce, More is not always consistent in the framework which he sets up for his imaginary society. Bruce addresses h...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

Social Order and Organized Crime

In sixteen pages this research paper discusses how social order was destroyed by organized crime groups throughout history with so...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

others), Mill recognized that mans relationship of the benefits of his actions necessarily related to the ability to weigh the pos...

The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor

In eight pages this paper discusses Taylor's work and agrees with his assessment of the individual in society particularly in term...