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Essays 271 - 300

Theories Regarding Power and Knowledge

In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...

Democracy and Latin America

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

Internet Research on 1996's The Communication Decency Act

the World Wide Web. In some cases the information required is easy to locate - in this instance, for example, the CDA is a popular...

Finding Ways to Fight Terrorism

the acts and (2) why they commit the acts. It was one of our own citizens who planned and executed the Oklahoma City...

J.S. Mill's 'On Liberty' and Abortion

issue. The extreme range of emotions that are involved in the debate concerning abortion can be difficult for the woman in a situ...

Anti Terrorist Legislation of the United Kingdom

strongly by Cohen (2001). He notes that...

2 US Supreme Court Cases on 'Life and Liberty'

terminated, or were about to terminate, such aid without prior notice and hearing, thereby denying them due process of law" (Goldb...

Mill, Marx, and Shelley on the Acquisition of Knowledge

they will assume that the only way to live is the way in which they have been living. Marxs examination of capitalism may be, t...

Political Society's Objectives in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

Department of Homeland Security Establishment

services to all those individuals who could use a hand up. The effect is bigger, more intrusive government. Both parties h...

Liberty Principle of John Rawls

is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...

Government and its Purpose

and the death penalty should be outlawed and that murdering animals should also be against the law. These are really the only conc...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Case Study Analysis of Freedom of Speech

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

Antiterrorism and Human Rights

against terrorism per se may still be in favour of what he terms extreme action. For example, the bombing of civilians by the Alli...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

Contemporary Relevance of the 'Social Contract' of Jean Jacques Rousseau

nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "so...

Philosophical Works of J.S. Mill

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

Human Nature and Comparing Mill and Marx

his time, and advocated many changes which he thought would make the world a better place but which were certainly not in keeping ...

Utilitarianism Act and Rule in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...

Rapid Change in Works by John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Mary Shelley

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Young Societies and On Liberty by J.S. Mill

a society as being "mature" enough for liberty. The principal point of Mills essay is-- in reference to Western societies-- is th...

Comparison of Marxism and the Liberty of Jean Jacques Rousseau

and remain as free as ever (Rousseau, 1762). Again, it is impossible for the government to impose restrictions and expect the obed...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...