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Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Aestheticism According to Nietzsche and Cassian

fulfillment. John Cassian (1997) wrote extensively about this topic. For Cassian, the goals of asceticism seem to be the preparati...

Immigration In The US Colonial Era

French Huguenots, African slaves, Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.v South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and M...

Marx and Mill

be necessary to take over these assets by making "despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois p...

An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer

classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...

Gender and Society

violence is a concern. The idea that men batter women and vice versa is disturbing. Yet, Kaufman (1985) argues that when a man be...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

Legal Issues & IEPs

an IEP. First of all, the IEP must include statements that offer an overview of the students current level of academic achievement...

Kant’s Categorical Imperative

right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

Sergei Eisenstein Film Form

The writer examines the ideas Sergei Eisenstein presented in his book Film Form, and argues that the ideas are extremely creative....

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Debates During the Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment

with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

The Idea of Thought According to Descartes

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Learning And Education/Transformative Approches

adult education today is a descendant from the progressive or liberal way of thinking (Boughton, 2002). Liberals, such as Earsman ...

Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

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

Beck, Wright, Sowell, Berger, and Courtwright Idea Connection

attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...