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Essays 1861 - 1890

Salt on Food and the Nature v. Nurture Argument

their salt intake so as not to further complicate the situation, which is clearly indicative of a nurturing response to the natura...

Thematic Analysis of ' A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns

very difficult emotion to describe or explain. This is why Burns used the elements of nature in order to detail what love was, wha...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

Literature and Nature Images

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

Similarities between the Reigns of Stalin and the Tsars

Stalin was so determined to control the socialist culture because he did not want to create any potential opposition to his rule. ...

Early Greek Philosopher Parmenides

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

The Transformation of Cairo into its Modern Counterpart

20 pages and 10 sources. This paper provides an overview of modern Cairo, a city that is completely modern in so many ways, but h...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

Is It Possible to Be Born a Criminal?

strange and terrible" (Lanier and Henry, p. 94). Interestingly, this theory was supported by sociologist Richard Dugdale, who art...

Ernest Hemingway's Respect for the Outdoors Reflected in His Writings

In eight pages this paper examines how the outdoors are represented in Hemingway's writings and the conflict between man and natur...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Environmentalist Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

that covered human ecology and the so-called "deep ecology" movement. Madness and exploitation Once upon a time, according...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

Nature, Nurture, and Individual Behavior

extend their lives, and in some cases may even, in conjunction with available medicines, send the cancer into remission. Doctors c...

Trophy Hunting Curtailing

which supports mans medicinal, food, companion and entertainment needs. However, in spite of all the various ways animals serve m...

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx, and a Contemporary Concept of Human Nature

the most important fact for the student to understand is what Fromm explains in the following section of Marxs Concept of Man (196...

'True West' and 'Madame Butterfly'

relatives urge her not to marry, for she is nothing but a geisha girl and does not have the respectability to marry. She insists h...

Capitalism and Labor

In five pages capitalism and labor are examined through the perspectives offered in E.P. Thompson's 'Time, work-discipline and ind...

Child Abuse Cycle

In twelve pages the cyclic nature of child abuse is examined in terms of causes, influences, prevention, and treatment with UK and...

'State of Nature' According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

Tragic Hero Analysis of William Shakespeare's Richard the Second and Prince Hamlet

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

Nature and Treatment of Suicide

of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or major depressive episode at some point in life" (Anonymous, 2001). Depression of...

Theories of Sigmund Freud

In eight pages the famous 'Dora' case of Sigmund Freud is discussed in an examination of human nature with a consideration of his ...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...