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Controlling Nature and Humans

who perish are less suited to the environment than those who survive (Charles Darwin and natural selection, 2006). In other words,...

Behavioral Explanations of Darwin, Pavlov, Piaget, and Freud

as being a form of "wish fulfillment" (Gay, 1995, 151), contending that people dream of that which they are being deprived, i.e. m...

Theoretical Models on Personal Identity

subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...

Human Being Concept and Theory of Charles Darwin

light of Charles Lyells ideas of centres of creation, [I]n later editions of this Journal he foreshadowed his use of Gal?pagos Isl...

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

U.S. Modern Dance History

skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...

Psychological Articles Summary and Overview

author defines compromise formations as "the data of observation when one applies the psychoanalytic method and observes and/or in...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Relationships

Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...

Eudaimonism Ideal and Animal Rights

In four pages this paper discusses Charles Norton's perspectives on eudaimonism and applies them to animal rights and testing issu...

Scottish Architect Charles Renny Mackintosh

Scottish architect Charles Renny Mackintosh and his architecture are discussed in five pages with such famous buildings as the Wil...

Intelligence and Social Problems Such as Poverty

In eight pages the perspectives of Charles Murray, and author of The Bell Curve, are considered in a discussion of the relationshi...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

Examination of Charismatic Leadership

and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...

Algeria's Decolonization

In five pages Algeria's decolonization is examined in an overview of the country's eventual dependence in a consideration of Fifth...

Charles Darwin's Perspectives

This paper considers the colonialism and racism perspectives that resulted from the 'survival of the fittest' and natural selectio...

Literary Treatment of Darwinism

In ten pages this paper examines how the theories of Charles Darwin have been represented in literature in a consideration of crit...

Evidence Offered by Charles Darwin on Natural Selection

In six pages this paper discusses the natural selection theory of Charles Darwin and includes a consideration of the Galapagos Isl...

Stephen J. Gould's Darwin's Middle Road

In five pages the scientific reasoning of Charles Darwin is seen through the eyes of Stephen J. Gould in his insightful text. The...

Clara Wieland and Ellen Montgomery in Wieland and The Wide, Wide World

The novels heroine was an impressionable young girl named Ellen Montgomery, who is separated from her ailing mother and forced to ...

The Wide Wide World, Wieland, and Christianity

Carwin is only described as "dark," not Indian, and the fact that Wieland is set in the heart of civilization and not out on the u...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

U.S. Constitution and Personal Property

In six pages 'The New Property' by Charles Reich and The Guardian of Every Other Right by James W. Ely Jr. are examined in a consi...