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Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Man and Icon John Wayne

a football player. Ford then told Duke to "try to tackle him" (PG) and Duke attempted it but was thrown roughly to the ground. W...

Single Bullet Theory and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

could have done the deed with a single bullet. In fact, Thomas Canning, a NASA scientist who studied the Single Bullet trajector...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

First Person Narrative Approaches in Works by Toni Cade Bambara and John Updike

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

Analysis of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

'Another on the same' by John Milton

Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...

Capitalism and Democracy

unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had not been bef...

Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller

experiences that were helpful to me that I recollect with pleasure was one in working a few days for a neighbour in digging potato...

Education in the Enlightenment vs. Classical Greek

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Ending of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

Cuban Missile Crisis '13 Days' in October 1962

door was opened, it had the potential for opening the door to other opportunistic countries as well. President Kennedy finally cam...

The Development of Utilitarianism

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Gospels Differences and Jesus

in order to give an accurate chronology of Jesus ministry, but rather to reveal who Jesus character --who he was (and "is" in the ...

JFK's Life and Political Accomplishments

Furthermore, included is an interesting photograph of Kennedy from his college days, which is very striking when one realizes that...

Christian Views on Evil

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

A Detailed Review of 2 Corinthians Chapter Five Verses 14 through21

speaking against him were false apostles. There is some question as to exactly who these false apostles are. Some scholars suggest...

Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

The Quiet American from a Critical Standpoint

much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Classrooms and the Multiple Intelligences Model of John Gardner

Howard Gardner would emerge with his theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner came up with the theory of multiple intelligences ...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...