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B. Guy Peters' The Politics of Bureaucracy

public administration a more effective field, it has also become an ever-changing one in relation to its modifying climate. One o...

Peter's Confession of Christ

was the bishop of Hierapolis and who identified John Mark as the author (Smith, 2008; NIV, 1995). Mark was also known to travel wi...

Opposing Laws Against Gay Marriage

marriage is accused of being unlike heterosexual unions apart from the gender. All the moral hypocrites who fuel the controversy ...

Peter the Great

Theodore died in 1682. The lessons learnt during this periods concern politics and intrigue. The Naryshkin family wanted Peter to ...

Hesse’s Siddhartha, A Reflection

researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...

Should Gay And Lesbian Couples Be Allowed To Adopt?

Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...

How Do You Feel About Same Sex Couples

Do you believe that being around gays or lesbians can change people and maybe even make them homosexual? Would you wear a button t...

Enlightenment Ideals in Two Films

This essay pertains to "V for Vendetta" and "Children of Men" and provides a discussion of how both films support Enlightenment i...

Aspects of Slavery

This research paper includes four short essays, which are on how slaves retained their sense of identity and community, Enlightenm...

Tartuffe by Moliere and Religious Hypocrisy

Catholics and Protestants (then called Huguenots by the French), church and state were "imperfectly and precariously united" despi...

Spiritual Journeys East and West: A Consideration of "Cold Mountain Poems" and The Divine Comedy

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

"Around the World in Eighty Days" - Colonialism and Enlightenment

infuse his novel with educational motifs, reflecting the novels thematic notion that educational and scientific advancement are th...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...

Frederick II

and Frederick II never loved her or cared about her in the least. Frederick William I died at the end of May in 1740. At that tim...

The Evolution of the Criminal Justice System

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

Parzival/Honor in the Middle Ages

honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

King George III and the Enlightenment

This 3 page paper looks at the way in which King George III was influenced and influenced The Enlightenment with interests in scie...

Raphael's Madonna and Child Enthroned

all of the figures included, with the exception of the two children. There is a little boy sitting on the Madonnas lap and another...

Enlightenment Arguments for and against Separation of Church and State

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Factors in Bringing about the Age of Revolution

and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999)...

American and French Revolutions' Similarities and Differences

come forth, but in France, the people just rocked the boat and lasting change would only come about through time. Yes, the extraor...

Progress and Ideals of the Enlightenment

and the second seeks to "alter the self-understanding of groups which have been defined in negative ways by a dominant culture" (L...

Enlightenment Philosophy and Religion

belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...