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Inclusion and Exclusion in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

more they attempt to distance themselves from it. Richard and Bunny are not involved until Bunny discovers the truth. The group dy...

Armstrong and Descartes' Views Compared

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

Discussing the First Meditation of Descartes

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

Care of Children and Parents Who Work

felt she had no option but to take Asante with her. She left the child in the car and planned to come out periodically and check o...

Spirituality and Liberation Theology

buggy rides. In the future, people may have flying machines that make the automobile look antiquated. Yet, is this really liberati...

Identity and Class

and manual workers as a C2. Again this categorisation has attracted much criticism, and can be seen as a useful reference, but not...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Innate Principles Concept and John Locke

philosophy and political theory for the past 400 years has been incalculable. Locke and Innate Principles In the "Essay Concerni...

Gerry Spence's Justice for None

an integral part of societys framework - and nowhere is this more evident than within the justice system. Indeed, a perfect so...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

Hip Hop and American Culture

generational jargon is quite common. Each generation speaks a bit different language from that of their parents. Hip hop however i...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Intergovernmental System and Power

has continued to oversee new areas of social policy, including health privacy. The federal government continues to assert itself ...

Trade Unions from an Employer's Perspective

between the unions and the employers it has been argued was merely a symptom of the society in which the unions operated (Kessler-...

Buddhism's Impermanence Refutation

In five pages this paper refutes the notion of time's impermanence in Buddhism. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Media Moguls

profitable fashion, it has created problems as well. One of the most obvious and by far the worse of these problems is that it is...

Justice Concept

the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...

Personal Truths and Beliefs

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

Methicillin Susceptible and Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

hospital and longterm health care settings. Of those who have acquired the infection, most are methicillin resistant ((MMWR, 2001...

Legal Consent, Sex, and the Consumption of Alcohol

the sexual act did not take place. It may only mean that a very bad decision was made that has the potential to cause a great deal...

Is College Hazing a Rite of Passage or a Major Problem?

In five pages this paper examines the hazing issue from both sides with one supporting the notion it represents a rite of passage ...

Cultures That Are Invisible

In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Genders and Are There More Than Two of Them?

Of course, the authors notion at first glance appears ridiculous. Everyone in the world knows that there are two sexes. Still, whe...

Andre DuBus' 1991 'Killings'

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

Man's Final Good and Methods of Determination in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In a report that consists of five pages the notion that Aristotle considered social ethics and moral values separate is examined. ...

An Attention Deficit Disorder Hypothesis

between covert processes and observable phenomena believed to arise from such processes" (Warner-Rogers et al, 2000, p. 520). Ina...