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The Impacts of Caffeine on Human Behavior

11 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the impacts of caffeine on human physiology, with a specific view of t...

Themes of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Professor's House by Willa Cather and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Libertarian Manifesto of John Hospers

In four pages this report examines the Manifesto 'Each human being has the right to live his life as he chooses, compatibly with t...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Global Processes of Agriculture and Genetic Engineering

In five pages this paper argues that human beings should not be subjected to animal and plant genetic engineering to comprise thei...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...

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 ...

Compassion Ethic of the Dalai Lama in Kindness, Clarity and Insight

responds in kind (Gyatso Compassion and the Individual). It is important to understand what the Dalai Lama means by compassion. ...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Understanding Death Through Rituals

within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Yahoos in Book Four of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

considers himself to be a far more civilised specimen of the human race than the Yahoos, he cannot deny that their way of life is ...

Answering the Question of 'Who Am I?'

putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...

Science of Unitary Human Beings Theory of Martha Rogers

(Hornberger, 1998). Patterns can be altered through specific techniques. * Openness. The human and environmental systems are open....

Karl Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and Ethics

of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity--and does so in the proportion in w...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

Social Interaction and Self Preservation

cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner, are storytellers and as such they utilize this trait one of the es...

Concepts and Identity According to John Locke

the tea, thus a complex idea is "brewing." The making of the tea connects us in a unique way that is singular to the two of us. M...

Scientific Knowledge on Sharks' Attacking Humans

staying up all Sunday night and writing it, just so I didnt have to miss all day Sunday sun-burning my nose, while paddling around...

Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Fungi, Myocototoxins, and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

and mycotoxins: the latter are not essential to the life of the mould, but appear to have the purpose of giving the organism an ad...