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Computer Information Systems Industry Employment

in using it, and why? Seemingly any company wishing to do intense data scanning on consumers will be able to justify to their own...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

The Short Stories of Angela Carter

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

Business World and Changing Technology

In five pages corporate America is examined in view of the impact of technology changes with retail, banking, and entertainment in...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Personal Property Concepts of John Locke

In eight pages this report discusses John Locke's Second Treatise on Government in a consideration of the political philosopher's ...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

A Human Mind Inquiry

Thomas Reid's philosophical perspectives are examined in this paper consisting of nine pages in terms of perceptual senses, visual...

Albert Camus on Suicide in Myth of Sisyphus

In three pages this paper discusses how in Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus' views on suicide are expressed. One source is cited in ...

Pleasure According to Aristotle

In six pages Aristotle's view of pleasure in terms of where it resides within the context of a happy life is examined with the ass...

'Le Renegat' by Albert Camus

In three pages Camus' view of the absurdity of the human condition is explored within the context of his essay but also considers ...

Worthless 'Unexamined Life' According to Socrates

the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...

Reasons Why the US Suffered a Loss in Vietnam

against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud on Crime

In twelve pages the crime views of these three influential theorists are compared and contrasted. Thirteen sources are cited in t...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams

In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Articles on Society and Gender

gender suspect, or at least something that does not fit neatly into the male/female paradigm. This author expresses a view on soci...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

The Philosophy, Meaning, and Value of Being Good

This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...

Evolution of Evil in Christianity

How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...

Socratic Philosophy and Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

The New York Hospital Closure Controversy

The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Distortion, the Words and Actions of Jesus:

In five pages this paper discusses Jesus' belief that the law of Moses was being distorted and how this view was represented in bo...

Impact of Women in Law Enforcement

they approach law enforcement less as "control through authority" but more like performing a public service (Wells and Alt 105). ...

What is the ‘Right’ Age for Drinking?

what the right drinking age should be that usually focuses on which age an individual should be allowed to legally purchase and co...

Kinship and the Iroquois

of marriages, which are encouraged within families to ensure the control of matrilineal-defined inheritance rights, but cannot occ...