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Literary Application of Rene Descartes' Method

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

General Thomas Gage: Profile

of England (The American Revolution, 2007). Before the American Revolution he lived in America and was there when legal acts wer...

Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

Intelligent Design and Aquinas

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

Gospel of Thomas

there, but the Kingdom of the Father is spread out on the earth and men do not see it." A short parable occurs early in Thomass ...

Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Hobbes, Knowledge And The Constitution

significant reason society is its own opposing force. Moreover, subjects of the omnipotent Leviathan are morally responsible for ...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Tom Paine: Common Sense

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

America's Enlightenment

In five pages this paper considers America's Enlightenment era in a consideration of the Revolutionary War and such important thin...

America's Enlightenment and Pre Revolutionary War Periods

thought as Puritans came to America. Prior to the Revolution such ideals come through in writings by infamous Americans. For examp...

First World War According to Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen

In five pages this paper compares the views of the First World War that are presented in The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy and Dul...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and Its Conclusion

In five pages this paper argues in support of the inevitability of the novel's conclusion because of the emphasis on Maggie and To...

Pros and Cons on the 'Inevitability' of Poverty

This paper evaluates the statement that poverty is not an inevitability in an assessment of pros and cons. Six sources are cited ...