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The Nature of Documentaries

This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...

Hemingway, O'Brien, and the Nature of Truth

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...

The Nature of Divorce

When looking at various phenomena in society, there are often individual and social factors at work. This paper looks at both and...

The Nature of Human Sexuality

This paper concludes that by ignoring sexual orientation, individual variation, and feelings, Masters and Johnson lack considerabl...

Intrinsic Nature of Aesthetics and Design and its Universality

This essay discusses "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs" by Michael Kimmelman, "The Boundaries of Design" by Virginia Postrel and "...

The Nature of Happiness and Boethius

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Boethius' views of happiness. Arguments for and against are made. Paper uses one sou...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

Overview of the Nature of Hittite Treaties

This research paper presents an overview analysis of the function of treaties and diplomacy within the Hittite Empire. The second ...

Child Abuse, Its Nature and History

were perceived and what sort of behavior was considered appropriate in regards to children has changed considerably over the cours...

The Tiered Nature of Pollution

Ozone, for example, is a secondary pollutant. If forms when, exposed to sunlight, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides (NOx) combine ...

IS HUMAN NATURE EVIL AT HEART

human concept of good and evil - bound by the tenets of yin/yang whereby to everything positive there is a negative, to every dark...

Gender Identity: Nature or Nurture

on triggering biological development. The researcher maintained that for males, "the biological cause of... putative homosexualit...

Human Nature and Behavior: Jews and World War II

Primo Levis classic book "Survival in Auschwitz" is an account of the authors capture and deportation to...

Man's Nature in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Ethan Brand,' 'The Birthmark,' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

Pluralism Problem and Joseph Ratzinger's The Nature and Mission of Theology

(Ratzinger 16). In other words, philosophy eschews revelation. Theology, on the other hand, is "rational reflection upon Gods reve...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

Nature and Man in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

upon human sense organs. The sights, smells, touches, and sounds of pleasurable things gives rise to appetite. Appetite gives rise...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf and the Nature of Individual Identity

that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...

Poetically Examining Nature Through Figures of Speech

now that she is gone that they will have some rest, that no one will bother them anymore, least of all their mother. And yet, they...

Nature and Biology According to Aristotle

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

Human Nature and Selfishness

that mankind is hardwired for selfishness and are a slave to these drives whether we understand or are cognizant of them in the fi...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

Man Against Nature in Lee Tamahori's 1997 Film The Edge

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

The Nature of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

is by simply watching the news. During the winter of 2001 for example, the drop in the stock market was significant and while Wall...

Human Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and Hsun Tzu

In eight pages this paper discusses man's social role within the contexts of Hsun Tzu and Thomas Hobbes. Six sources are cited in...

The Global Nature of Racism

This research paper examines racism, taking a global perspective and arguing that this is a pervasive problem that can be found an...

God's All Powerful and Singular Nature

In five pages this paper examines that the several biblical references to more than one divine entity do not in any way alter the ...

Nature of Evil in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper discusses the theme of evil within the context of this short story by Shirley Jackson. There are no othe...

The nature of Gabriele in Thomas Mann's Tristan

merchant, different than an efficient plumber, or an efficient gardener? One thing would be that he is used to getting the "mos...

An Investigation of Symbolism in the Nature of Space

Using the bathroom as a point of reference, this five page paper explores symbolism as it realtes to personal space. Four sources...