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An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Theme of Conflict

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

An Analysis of Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons

individually must be good for society as a whole (Hardin, 1968). Once this philosophy is adopted, its literally "every man for hi...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

Hurricane Katrina Tragedy and Race

one assumes, in moments of crisis like that that has befallen New Orleans" (Lowry, 2005). Jason DeParle sees things quite anothe...

Tragedy Associated with the Drug Thalidomide

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

January 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crash

the planes horizontal stabilizer trim shortly before the crash and had been diverted to from its initial destination of San Franci...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Defining and Applying Public Health

innovations as penicillin and automobile seat belts. It encompasses the provisions that are used to insure a safe blood supply an...

Love Defined and Described

this paper by describing what love is NOT. For one thing, there is a vast difference between physical desire and love. Physical de...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

Formalization, Complexity, and Organizational Size Defined

day across the U.S. and more than 200 other countries (Williams, UPS, 2005). The company has a fleet of more than 88,000 motor ve...

Defining Technology Due Diligence

of four teaching hospitals in San Francisco, UCSF Stanford Health Care abandoned the merger in large part because of the difficult...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

Disability Defined

lack of some ability. If we examine the Merriam-Webster Dictionarys definitions we note the following: "1 a : the condition of b...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Peace as Defined by St. Augustine

as family, friends and personal interests, such as hobbies and projects, ahead of work related issues imposed by others, people ca...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Functions of Management Defined

of task, there may be an overall strategy, but there may also be the need to plan for a specific case, the lawyers determining wha...

Teaching Virtue

who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Aristotle and Plato's Differing Views

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

Marketing Defined

100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the early 1980s, but rather reflected the i...