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Leadership Concepts

for the people. Leadership and theories of leadership have come a long way since Machiavellis time. Heider (1986) claims that lea...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

Symposium by Plato and the Concept of Love

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

Islamic Pilgrimage Known as the Hajj

(Al-Imran); Verse 97 (ICM). The Hajj is considered a fulfillment of the Fifth Pillar of Islam but is also considered as a time whe...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Eleven As Modernist Literature

suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Great Philosophers on Freedom

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

Teaching and Philosophy

addition to reviving Deweys ideas, the current revival of constructivism also encompasses the ideas of other giants of education s...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Progress and Resistance to It

reason. No one may be able to recall any specific reason, except perhaps that "things" have been done in a specific way for longe...

Values and Objectives in Architecture

be ones objectives. Consider that the architect of the Taj Mahal was not Arabic, nor shared the same religious beliefs. In this re...

Freud and Aristophanes Compared

was this very notion of instincts which led Freud to the form the idea of eros (Freud, 1989). Freud believed that all individuals...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

Feminism in the Nineteen-Thirties

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

Flawed Arguments and Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

purpose" (Cross, 2002). Opponents to same-sex marriages also oppose gay activists appeal to pity in regards to their arguments. Th...

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...

Global Management In The Military: Memo Of Transmittal

with insufficient, inoperable or undersupplied munitions created a scenario whereby every soldier who stepped forth into battle wa...

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...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

'Picturesque' Landscape as an Evolving Concept

of "picturesque", that these contradictions deviate from the more static and formal view of nature, that:...

Narrator Cassie in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

older brother, is somewhat more worldly-wise: although there is only a small age difference between the two children, Stacey is mo...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Exercise: Baseline Study

long-term - when taking on an exercise program maintain much more commitment than their counterparts who have no specific directio...

The Movie Experience

interruptions and is quite different from the theater. It is true that some people today do have very large television sets, but t...

Undermining the Kremlin by Gregory Mitrovich

this time, which includes the fears of policymakers regarding the Soviet threat, as well as their perspective on the ramifications...