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Effects of World War I

This essay discusses how the Fist World War changed different things like society of the winners and losers. The essay comments on...

Declining Roman Mores Through the Eyes of Juvenal

This paper examines the viewpoints of Juvenal as they pertain to Roman society. Juvenal writes from the perspective of his day ...

Saving the Bilby Graveyard

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

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

Beck, Giddens, and Risk Society

but also toxins and pollutants in the air, the water and foodstuffs . . . . They induce systematic and often irreversible harm, ge...

Impact of Capitalism Upon Peasants

their first contact with Europeans these people have literally been under attack. From approximately 1640 to the present date, w...

Society Does Not Exist

objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation of individua...

Jean Genet/Querelle

This discussion of Jean Genet's Querelle offers an overview of the text and addresses the author's theme, which pertain to society...

Women's Oppression in America According to Brubaker and Betsworth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Brubaker and Betworth's perspective on American society's female oppression. Thr...

Overview of Experimental Economics

In five pages the contemporary world's utilization of experimental economics is examined in this overview of its history and varie...

Literature, Society, and the Individual

taken into account. In reading works written a long time ago, such as Antigone as noted above, or Platos Republic as another examp...

Perfect Society Concept and Utopia by Thomas More

In 5 pages this paper discusses whether or not contemporary society would regard More's Utopia as perfect in a consideration that ...

Philosophical Views on Human History

In five pages this paper discusses society's development in relationship to humans in a consideration of the philosophical perspec...

Overview of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge

42,800 as classified as other races (Pearlstien). Approximately 100,700 people (Pearlstien), of several races, were from Hispanic ...

Enlightenment's Age of Reason and Thomas Paine

In five pages this essay argues in support of the effectiveness of Thomas Paine's preference for reason over supernatural faith. ...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

The Psychological, Biological, and Social Science Obstacles in Understanding Bisexuality

was not the first theorist to draw this conclusion. His friend and mentor Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928) developed the concept that b...

Enlightenment Attack of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

frightening lack of individuality. This is also exemplified in society today. Was he correct? Is the world turning the people into...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Durkheim and Dawkins

and evolve (Durkheim, 1965). He argued that society had to be present within an individual, and that religion was a way of reinfor...

Enlightenment's Importance

economy was altered. The rural landscape would be replaced for city life, something quite different from what was known. All of th...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

The Industrial Revolution in America

the world" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 550). Raw materials and finished goods could now be shipped all over the country. The Cumber...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...