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Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...

Fulfillment of Predictions Aldous Huxley Made in Brave New World Revisited

Huxley considers how the survival of a democracy depends upon frequent information exchanges, which is what made the medium of tel...

The Fluidity of Identity and Consumerism

is a stable concept; shares with a social group and influenced mainly by two variables; nationality and class, but more recent the...

Modern Day Slavery

Human trafficking is often thought of as one of the more abhorrent reflections of world history. At the most, we reason, human tr...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Critical Legal Studies and Whether or Not They are Outdated

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

Connection Between Pilot Skill and Automation

moments notice. Pilots are supposed to be able to cope with changes in weather conditions as well as to make sure that the plane i...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

In five pages this text is considered with the emphasis being on religious practices being studied by sociologists as a way to und...

The Life and Works of Aldous Huxley

In a paper consisting of nine pages the amazing life of this social revolutionary particularly as it relates to drug experimentati...

Financial Crises and Panic

virtually all Americans are well-aware of the resultant mass hysteria of the 1929 crash on Wall Street, there has not been signifi...

Culture, Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

In five pages the contemporary world application of Hartshorne's centripetal and centrifugal force theories is offered along with ...

Author Michael Crichto

In eleven pages this paper discusses the author's life and the unethical interaction between science and medicine as portrayed in ...

Future in the Present and 1984 by George Orwell

radio, and telephone, and substitute my computer for every use to which I put my TV, phone, and radio now. If I choose to have my ...

The Separatist Movement in Quebec

This research paper discusses the independence movement in Quebec, its history and origins, as well as the contemporary developmen...

The Natural Philosophy of Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages Aristotle's natural philosophy is considered within the context of the contemporary world in t...

Einhard's Charlemagne

In a paper consisting of nine pages Charlemagne's contemporary world significance is considered within the context of Einhard's hi...

Herodotus and His Contemporary Influence

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the concepts of the ancient historian Herodotus continue to influence the contemporary world. ...

Utopian Political Philosophy Criticism in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In seven pages this paper examines Chapter XV of The Prince in a consideration of how it criticizes the political philosophy descr...

Ecology and Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

In five pages this landmark 1949 text written by the accomplished naturalist is considered in terms of the ways in which it has in...

Achilles and Odysseus in A Modern Comparison

In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...

Coleridge vs. Byron

Romantic poets Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were contemporaries who viewed the world through different perspectives. Thi...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...