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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...

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...

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...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

'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...

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 Tausug by Thomas M. Kiefer

In five pages this research paper discusses the anthropological study of the Philippines' Tausug people as conducted by Thomas M. ...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Abraham Lincoln and Opposing Views of Him

In seven pages this paper contrasts the Confederate and Union views of Abraham Lincoln as presented in Glenn Linden and Thomas Pre...

Activity Based Cost Accounting

In a paper consisting of ten pages activity base costing is examined with the use of Relevance Lost by H. Thomas Johnson and Rober...

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...

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

Thomas Hardy's Works on Society and the Individual

In 8 pages this paper discusses characterizations, relationships, and how they thematically represent society and the individual i...

Thomas Hardy and George Moore's Victorian Fiction and Naivete

In five pages this research paper examines the naivete of the protagonists in Esther Waters by George Moore and Far From the Maddi...

Discussion of 4 Writings on Politics

In ten pages this paper discusses Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Paine's response in The Rights of Man, ...

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the Contemporary Police State

This 5 page paper argues that Thomas Hobbes' classic work Leviathan and its negative view of what he called the state of nature is...

Falsification Theories of Karl Popper

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Postscript of Author Thomas Kuhn

In 10 pages the 1969 postscript Thomas Kuhn added to his 1962 text is examined in terms of content with its 7 subsections analyzed...

Philosophy Topics

"Happiness is not mans greatest good. There are important realizations every man must make. The aim of man is the will to power, n...

Victorian Spirituality in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...

Comparison of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

In twelve pages this paper examines man's nature in a contrast and comparison of Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke...

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...