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Expanding Global Supply Chains into New Markets

convergence. There are also other factors are work, increased costs of transportation and concerns regarding the damage of global ...

Unequal Pay For Women In American - Gender Wage Gap

59.2% 1971 59.5% 1981 59.2% 1991 69.9% 2001 76.3% 2004 77.0% Notice that women earned 63.9 percent of what men earned in 1951; t...

Role of Biblical Criticism/Luke's Gospel

for this reference becomes clear, as Luke is writing "in a social context where marriages arranged for socio-political benefit bet...

Marriage of the Same Sex

and even to couples who remain celibate within marriage. The multiple exceptions listed effectively refute the power of this argu...

Bell Curve Negation and Flaws in IQ Testing

entitled "Does Welfare Bring More Babies?" All of these works caused a stir and there was an appropriate backlash. One of Murray...

Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In six pages this paper supports the legalization of marijuana sale by prescription in the U.S. for serious medical conditions wit...

Legalization of Pornography

In six pages this paper discusses pornography legalization by looking at the argument from both sides and ultimately refuting its ...

Change According to Aristotle

In five pages the argument that Aristotle's notion that change is in all things is refuted by an examination of death. Two source...

Persuasive Essay on Abortion Rights

Wade, was in the middle of this important case which determined that women do have a constitutional right to an abortion (111). Wh...

Article Criticism and Rebuttal of Marxism

Louis Blanc (1811-1882) gets the credit for the Marxist line about "from each according to his abilities; to each according to his...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

Socrates' Arguments in Phaedo by Plato

soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...

Christianity and the Wrong Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...

Opposing the California Death Penalty

In five pages this essay refutes each of the arguments posed by proponents of California's death penalty. There are four bibliogr...

Perspectives on Rationalism and Society

to devise her answer. What is arguable is not whether reason exists, but whether it is good. Is reasoning better than acting upon...

Constitutional Rights and Roe v. Wade

In eight pages this argumentative essay examines Roe v. Wade with such topics as refuting arguments, social benefits, original dec...

Argumentative Essay on God's Existence

any scientific evidence to prove that a higher power created the universe. It is, most likely, as with humans, a product of evolu...

Argument Against Divorce

In five pages this essay presents arguments against divorce, refutes them, and then introduces a marriage license concept that wou...

How No Contest by Alfie Kohn Demonizes Competition

In five pages this opinion paper refutes Kohn's argument that competition is evil and unavoidable. There are no additional source...

How Growth is Promoted by Increasing Minimum Wage

This argumentative paper consisting of eight pages discusses how raising the minimum wage makes sound economic sense by refuting c...

Arguments for Making Ballroom Dancing an Olympic Sport

In five pages the high degree of skill involved in ballroom dancing is included in an argument that it qualifies as an athletic sp...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

PHILOSPHY AND THE CONCEPT OF REALITY

Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Did Descartes Question His Own Thought Process?

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

Opposing Prayer as a Public School Practice

conscious of the inevitable conflict between religion and the state. For that reason, they endeavored to keep the two as separate...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...