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Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Global Warming

they have "no intention of doing anything of the sort" (Adler, 2007, p. 45). Another important milestone that Adler describes is...

Substance Dualism: Descartes, Spinoza and Berkeley

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

"Option Four" By Ramesh Ponnuru: Review

plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...

The Global Warming Debate

unfreezes and temperatures climb. Alaska appears to be on a direct and damaging collision course with time, inasmuch as its entir...

Cloning and Stem Cell Research: Ethical Dilemmas

of an action, but there is no obvious reason to suppose that intentions, but not motives, are especially strongly connected to the...

Capital Punishment: Morally Acceptable And Effective Crime Deterrent

far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...

The Red Sea Crossing

history text. Intermixed with Old Testament recounting of events in the history of the Hebrew people are directions for "religious...

The Debate Regarding Scientific Progress

the first who heralded with major changes. His revelation that it was the sun, not the Earth, that was the center of the universe...

The Language of the Abortion Debate

rhetoric can go a long way to change opinion (Bailey, 2002). They realize that if they use religious verbiage, it will only have a...

Plato's "Gorgias" - Positions Of Socrates And Callicles

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

Stem Cell Research: Wave Of The Future

acceptability; however, this is not enough reason to postpone the favorable results that have already been discovered as the ethic...

Establishing An Independent Palestinian State: For And Against

operates as a member of the global community. Clearly, governance serves as a significant component in conditions necessary for a...

Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...

Debating Shoeing Horses

Australian researcher Dr. Chris Pollitt demonstrated in 1993 that the "application of shoes resulted in a visible dramatic reducti...

Nurses & Liability Insurance

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

The Purpose of Life and Personal Fulfillment

didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

Saying Goodbye to Debate Class

chore. It is these assignments that have held the greatest lessons, however. These assignments that superficially seem so ...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

Giuliani Campaign/Immigration

of the McCain-Kennedy bill that is currently being debated. Current status of political controversy concerning immigration Mr. G...

In the Environment Have Aesthetics Become More Important than Overall Environmental Development?

Cumberland News, 2005). Additional concerns surround the impact of the wind turbine proposal, a proposal that includes turbines u...

US Debate Concerning Immigration

conglomeration of "ideological white supremacists, armed border vigilantes, nativist think tanks, political action committees, and...

The Corn Laws Debate.

dominated parliament" (Irwin, 1989, p. 41). With the rise of the middle class, the Laws "came under attack from manufacturing inte...

Brainstorm Café; Executive Summary

sold. The caf? will have its own in house bakery providing the food so that there is the assurance a constant provision of fresh, ...

The Debate about Predatory Lending Laws

some examples and the Republican/Democrat dichotomy is a generalization. That said, the model provides a sense of where the people...

The Argument About Cloning

as well as cloning to help the infertile reproduce. There is the argument that through cloning animals for consumption great heal...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

Modifying Behavior and the Debate Regarding Rewards and Punishment

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...