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Salvation and the Old Testament

this account of Jesus ministry portrays it as a "coherent judgment comprising sin, chastisement and restoration" (Clifford and Ana...

Cisneros and Roethke

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

Functionalism and the Relationship between the Individual and Society

(Edwards and Neutzling, 2001). Radcliffe-Brown, who is probably closer to what we want to look at, studied social structure, and ...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Epictetus and Aquinas on Nature, the Universe, and God

needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...

Nietzsche's Philosophy and Essays

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

Critical Analysis of Fraser River's Descent

while in other ways in a project such as this, it could spell disaster, and very nearly did. When peoples lives are at stake such...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

Immorality of Consuming and Producing the Flesh of Animals

to light the consequences the animal kingdom suffers at the hands of man, attempting to pass along the lesson that animals do not ...

Can the Issues of Human Rights Be Considered Valid?

free citizens to own and inherit property as well as to be free from excessive taxation (1997). It created the right of widows who...

The Use of Cash Flow Statements and the Significance of Assessments

19200 Loss on sale of plant 100 R and D written back 0 Profit on sale of land 0 Stock Increase -3000 Debtors increase -7700 Credi...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

Analyzing Robert Coover's The Brother

this adds information to the reader. One of the main purposes of this is that is further aids in making the reader feel as if he ...

Corruption's Power

the worlds population. Yet, again, who is to determine what this ethical code will represent, and who is to say that all cultures...

Accounting Perspectives and Issues

first developed to be a heart drug, the well known use today, to help with sexual problems was merely a side effect, and had a str...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

Overview of the U.S. Presidency

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

George Orwell's Animal Farm as a Russian Revolution Satire

fair and easy (yet deceitful) life of communism. How does George Orwell relate all of this to animals, however? As George Orwe...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

Noted Thinkers on the Afterlife

how the individual, the personality, that is a human being is likely never to experience an afterlife. In this we see that Flew do...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Education Perspectives of Milton Friedman

private initiatives, takes money away from the public educational realm. They say that public education is in poor shape and so al...

Economic Models Monetarism vs. New Classical

level and T is indicative of the volume of transactions (610). It is assumed that V is constant and T only changes slightly over t...

Conflict v. Functionalist Theories on Poverty and Crime

also state that group sports teaches hard work and patience, working toward a common goal and submission to authority, which are a...

Intelligence Theories and Philosophy

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

Corporate Governance and Organizational Change

The Problem There is nothing new about corporate sleight of hand. It was the same force that was...