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The Merger between Thomas Cook and MyTravel

well as the acquisition of Safeway by Morrison to create a national supermarket chain. In recent months a merger that has ...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Satire, Animation & The Simpsons

willing to "deflate our most over-inflated pieties" and delight in the "demolition of our most hallowed institutions" (Turner 50)....

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

a family and part of that beautiful communion involves eating, but yet interestingly enough it is also the source of their trouble...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

Viewer Implication in the Work of Marina Abramovic

In many instances involving performance art the performer actually counts on the "willingness of audiences to participate in media...

Thomas More’s Utopia

rely on hopes and prayers for peace. If battle is necessary then they do whatever is necessary to make the battle as quick and pai...

The American Dream

and then sued the "bad" trusts that essentially took advantage of small businesses and the people (Jensen, 2007). One of these "ba...

MySpace: An Invisible World Flattener

other nations (the U.S. and Western Europe, as mentioned) are sitting back relaxed, not paying attention to the destruction of the...

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...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

Du Bois & Washington on Education

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

The Day Dixie Died

relatively focused, yet incredibly broad look at the struggles of many whites in the South in a timeframe of just a couple of year...

Should Malcolm X Be Featured on a US Postage Stamp?

not have presided over mass murder, his rhetoric caused considerable damage to the Jewish people (Elder). As a member of the radi...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

In the past, for example, a person in Bolivia could not start a company utilizing hand woven fabrics from Bali. Today, with the In...

Trial Techniques

where to go to find information. The authors also consider what they call the "trial notebook," which is a means to organize "tr...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

Mainstream America and Being African American

suburbia ideal, even though they were raised in that setting. For the African American it may be different for they may have been ...

Living in More's Utopia

hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. No one is except from this requirement, neither ministers nor magistrates n...

Columbus, More and Renaissance Thought

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Augustine, Aquinas and Luther/Role of Government

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

Problems of English Society: Defoe and More

Printing, and the use of the Magnet and Compass, which we call Modern Inventions, are not only far from being Inventions, but fall...

Are Americans Selfish?

part of a type of culture that invest heavily in thinking first about themselves and their own survival before thinking about thei...

Are Americans Selfish?

are compassionate and although they are not perfect in the handling of needy children, or needy people, they are clearly a nation ...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...