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International Accounting Standard in Australia

The writer argues that since 2005 when Australia adopted IFRS the general standards have fallen resulting from increased complexit...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Contradiction and Inconsistency: Emerson

perhaps always live in a new day, unafraid of changing their ideals, their perceptions of those ideals, and thus perhaps appearing...

Philosophical Perspectives on Terrorism

attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...

Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

A Hollywood Marxist Interpretation

bold enough to make that first move. The cold war lasted roughly between 1945 and 1990 (Roberts, 1993). Thus, what happened is th...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Is Utilitarianism a Coherent Position to Take in Ethics?

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

Illegal Immigration and the Cuban Issue

have, in fact, moved far beyond the ideology we once cherished, the ideology we so identified with that it was engraved into the b...

Subject to None, Subject to All and Christian Contradiction

These apparently biblical contradictions attributed to Martin Luther and Paul are considered in five pages. There is one other so...

Contradictions in the Biblical Story of David

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

American Identity Concept and Benjamin Franklin

of his definition of self as it relates to Americans is scattered and often vague. Bearing this in mind we turn to the philosophic...

Poets or Writers, Realists or Romantics, Similarities or Differences?

In five pages the labeling of creative artists and its contradictions are considered in a comparative and contrasting analysis of ...

Wilfred Owen's Depiction of Death in War in 'Dulce et Decorum Est'

In five pages this paper argues that the poet's message is in contradiction to the standard notion that dying for country is an he...

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell

In five pages this controversial work and the ways the author breaks down society in terms of structure, culture, and polity are d...

Human Nature and Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism

In five pages this paper discusses human nature within the context of Sartre's existentialism in a consideration of the contradict...

Contradictions of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper compares Hegelian philosophy to Marxism in a consideration of one of Marx's theoretical contradictions. ...

The Welfare State of Today and Andrew Carnegie

In six pages the industrialist and philanthropist who did not believe in giving alms is considered in terms of his ideas, the mode...

The Lovable and Hated Alan Greenspan

colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, Colgate, Leuven in Belgium, Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Pennsylvania universiti...

Contingent A Priori Truths

or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

Direct Effect Doctrine and European Union Law

increase their participation, given the right to use community law and invoke it at a national court (Lenz, 2000). This doctrine...

Multicultural Society, the Law, and Liberalism

In fourteen pages this paper discusses jurisprudence in a consideration of how contradictions can emerge in a multicultural societ...

Approaches to Conflict Management

mind. Your opponent might change your mind. More important, if your opponent had used Rogerian persuasion on you to enlist your ...

Umberto Eco's Essay 'How Not to Use the Fax Machine and Cellular Phone'

about hearing about missed shipments and other such fleeting crises in business, and he maintains that those individuals holding s...

Thomas Hobbes' and Jean Paul Sartre's Theories

In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

Hypocrisy and Controversy Surrounding California's Proposition 187

In eight page this paper considers various cases and contradictions as they pertain to the extremely controversial Proposition 187...

The Decline of the Ming Dynasty in '1587 - A Year of No Significance'

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the contradiction between the title of Ray Huang's text and the content along with an...