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trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

only in the perception of the one who desires it....

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

his particular notions; some of these are, in brief, that every person should have equal access to basic liberties and also that s...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...

saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

This paper will also analyze whether Tacitus was correct in his belief that judiciary freedom was ruined in the presence of the em...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...