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Slavery According to Henry David Thoreau

2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

Poverty and Economic Equality According to W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and C.Wright Mills

even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...

Best Companies According to Fortune Magazine's '100 Best Companies to Work For'

annual report on the "100 Best Companies to Work For" reflects the concerns and values common among adult employees of all ages. ...

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

Leadership Qualities According to Schwarzkopf, Pagonis, and Drucker

for leadership in logistics in the Persian Gulf would be the utmost importance. He entrusted Pagonis for the job, and he came thro...

Predestination and Free Will According to St. Augustine

That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Property According to John Locke

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...

Law Enforcement Personnel Personalities According to Skolnick

to come up with a working personality to describe the police officer (1966). In other words, there are certain attributes that one...

Working Poor According to Beth Shulman and Barbara Ehrenreich

addresses in her book, which also deals with the plight of the working poor. Like Ehrenreich, Shulman argues against American soci...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Slavery According to Sterling Stuckey and Ira Berlin

order to illustrate why each authors particular perception is more accurate than the others. Utilizing the principles of historic...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

Dreams and Infantile Sexuality According to Sigmund Freud

humankind has devoted centuries to finding an explanation for the phenomenon of dreaming. Ancient man no doubt perceived dreams a...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Individual and Social Order According to Sigmund Freud

is less than advantageous for the individual. In better understanding this element, or connection, we present the following excerp...

Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of John and Mark

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice According to Martin Luther King Jr., Cicero, and John Stuart Mill

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

Barriers According to Gender

do not get the appropriate help they may need in respect to learning disabilities and things of that nature. Kleinfeld (1998) repo...

Imperialist Rome According to Classical Greek Opinion

one that was organic and holistic in which philosophy, politics, and literature were considered . . . Imperial Rome would prove th...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

Education's Worth According to the Elitists

Platos works. Indeed, those who go to college are more educated than those who do not. That is true to some extent. At the same ti...

Synthetic A Priori Knowledge and Aesthetic Taste Judgments According to Immanuel Kant

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...