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Community and the Possession of Private Arms

In ten pages this paper considers the right to bear arms in America in a discussion of community with a comparison of the philosop...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...

Comparing and Contrasting Dickens and Carlyle

The writer compares and contrasts the novels Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle and Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens and argues tha...

The Role Player as Seen in Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull

This paper describes the concept of a role player, as demonstrated by Thomas Mann with the character of Felix Krull. This five pa...

Workplace and Genetic Testing

In eight pages this paper discusses employer use of genetic testing and the related legal, moral, ethical, and financial issues. ...

Poetry's Subconscious Impact

In 5 pages this paper examines the subconscious impact of animals in an analysis of 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop, 'The Darkling ...

Overview of the United States Virgin Islands

John is largely a national park. St. Thomas boasts a deepwater harbor. St. Croix has rolling hills. All three are special touri...

Proof Offered by St. Thomas Aquinas That God Exists

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

'The Mean' Meaning According to Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of 'the mean' is discussed in terms of a balanced universe comprised fo form and matter and the ...

'Excellent' Company's 8 Attributes

In five pages this paper analyzes Thomas J. Peters' and Robert H. Whiteman's In Search of Excellence Lessons from America's Best ...

Renaissance Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love is represented in Boccaccio's 'The First Day,' Peter Bembo's 'The Asolani,' John Milton...

Existence in the Sense of the True According to Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this paper examines such metaphysical phenomena as change, Cambridge change, real change, and existence within the c...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Friar Lawrence's Morality

In 5 pages this paper questions the moral courage of the priest featured in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. There are 4 ...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and Man versus Society

In five pages this paper discusses how in Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy thematically develops the conflict of man vs. nature....

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

The Ethical Issues Involved With Assisted Suicide

forced nutrition, and hydration. Such treatments cannot reverse a patients underlying medical problem and refusing such treatments...

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...

Bigger Thomas in 'Native Son' by Richard Wright

while contemporary critic Louis Tremaine disagreed, arguing that Bigger Thomas was, in the final analysis, a positive African-Amer...

Morality and Ethics

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Relationship Between Tazio and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In five pages this paper discusses Aschenbach's obsession with Tadzio in this analysis of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. There a...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

Two time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman reveals his talent in the 1989 book. Focusing on Israel and Lebanon in particular ...

Sovereignty and Issue of a Central Government of the United States in the 18th Century

In twelve pages the sovereignty issue is examined within the context of the theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the effec...

Asylum by Erving Goffman

In five pages this text is used in an analysis of the mental patient's moral career and medical model. There are no other sources...

Venice and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper considers the similarities between Irvin Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. ...

Declaration of Independences and Birth Rights According to Alfred Young and Thomas Paine

In 5 pages this paper examines birth rights in accordance to the articles penned by Alfred Young and Thomas Paine and expressed in...

England and Italy's Political Development

a utopian society -- represents a rational philosophy educated by science, motivated by art, and inspired by compassion. Declarin...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...