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Western Civilization of the Future

countrys blossoming authority. The two incidents that prompted such a drastic stance toward foreign policy dealt with Russi...

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Bhagavad Gita Use by Mahatma Gandhi

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

Third World Countries and Corruption

(Internet source). Even those nations which seem to receive the greatest amount of assistance from their international "friends" i...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Universality, Cultural Diversity, and Human Rights

the imposition of a single set of standards it is argued that there is a loss of cultural diversity, but it is also argued that th...

Post 1500 Culture and Character of Western Europe

which European art is typically divide provide handy "signposts" for delineating the course of development for European character ...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

State of Texas is More Western Than Southern

simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...

Western Dental Clinic and Business Information Systems

to major transportation lines, people from outlying areas also come to see the dentists. The clinic itself was founded by ...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Iranian Women

were enjoying these achievements, those who were from the traditional sector of society reacted negatively, saying in public that ...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

2000 Case of Conjoined Twins and Legal Alternatives

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

'Recipe' by Janice Mirikitani

the eye takes looses its Asian fold and looks more Western. Then Mirikitani tells how to use eyeliner and false eyelashes to hide ...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...