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Essays 1981 - 2010

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

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...

Employment Relationship and the Kreps Model

work and less effort, ort may be in acts of sabotage and the creation of unrest in employees. The extreme reactions may be seen wh...

Three Revolutionary Leaders Compared

lot about he character of this man who was a dominating force in the American Revolution. The French Revolution was bloodier, an...

On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Alberti

to have a grand view of the ocean. Yet, this concept is not new. the idea that location and climate were the utmost concerns emana...

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes

careful to not be blinded by the bells and whistles of technology or the "gee-whiz" factor. Instead, they must be able to determin...

Loss of Individuality and Culture Thesis of Adorno and Horkheimer

which run counter to industry standards, they state, are sadly lost in the mix of sameness. In other words, culture has now become...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

The Short Stories of Angela Carter

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

Gershom Scholem and Franz Kafka's Interpretations of Judaism

and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...

William Sidney Mount and Samuel F.B. Morse and Their Approaches to American Art

were the most significant paintings for American to know and recognize. Nearly forty paintings and two sculptures can be found in ...

'Boob Tube' as a Justifiable Description of TV

of a television they will likely watch it. In addition, when people mindlessly watch television it is more likely the case that...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century by Jacob Burckhardt

individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in ...

The Future of No Child Left Behind

performances. President Bush instituted No Child Left Behind because too many children had been falling through the cracks...

Obama's Criticism of Sarah Palin (Analysis Using the Theory of Symbolic Interactionism)

in fact clings to such things proudly. After the announcement, Barack Obama attacked Palin. From a symbolic interactionist perspec...

Future Water Shortages?

(2001) offers solace, however, with his thesis that water is in fact not only plentiful but also renewable. Lomborg (2001) encour...

Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

Argument: Taking Antidepressants Does Not Lead to Suicide

over whether or not SSRIs increase suicidality since 1990, when a paper appeared discussing "6 cases in which intense suicidal pre...

"Napster 2.0: The Cat Is Back"

in protest over threatened royalty rate increases (Munarriz, 2008). * Download sites operate "on razor-thin margins, with bandwidt...

Is the Nation State Increasingly Irrelevant in the Context of Globalization

governmental organizations as well as international organizations. It may be assumed that the issues are more focused on countries...

Entrepreneurs and Managing Big Business; Is there an Inherent Clash?

venture and assumes the risk for it" (Hyperdictionary, 2008). Timmons builds on this stating that an entrepreneur is someone who i...

Perspectives in Phonology

comes to the phonological approach to the differences between human and animal sounds, we find that at some level, we respond in t...

Smoke Detectors

charged with one plate having a positive charge and the other, a negative charge (CableOrganizer, 2008). The alarm works by ionizi...

Christianity vs. Neopaganism: The Human Condition, Theodicy and Soteriology

Christians view the human condition as being integrally tied with the fact that we were created in the image of God. While we som...

The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...