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Kant's 'Enlightenment' and Freedom of Speech

freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...

Areopagitica by John Milton

fashion, as they order books burned and prohibited that they "fancied not" (1025). Then, Martin the Fifth instituted the a bull wh...

Economic Freedom and Its Benefits

economic freedom and then quantify them to reflect the degree to which they are present in a given economy or market. The EFI has...

Society and Individual Opportunity

jobs, and education are just some of the areas which are affected by this practice. Given these evidences, alone, it becomes obvio...

Gods and Oedipus

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

Freedom and Nonviolence

only an autocratic state (Yancy, 1995). Mandela, of course, first advocated nonviolence as a means of affecting change in...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

Freedom Determinism More

Different theological philosophies attribute free will and freedom to different other theories. This paper explores libertarian fr...

Protecting the Public

Case study: a man was diagnosed with untreatable TB. The CDC enforced the law to isolate him, thereby taking away his freedom. Sho...

Homeland Security and the Unintended Consequences of their Polices and Practices

Any official policy or practice will have both intended and unintended consequences. This paper looks at some of the ways in which...

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, An Evaluation

This research paper summarizes the points made in relevant literature in order to discuss whether or not the Charter has succeeded...

Comments on Freedoms

This essay discusses several articles that deal with freedoms. Topics include: the responsibilities of parents, music censorship, ...

“To his Excellency General Washington” and American Liberty

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

Expression and Individual Freedom in Literature

This 3 page paper gives an example of how individual expression and freedom is shown in a few works of literature. This paper incl...

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' the Devil, and God

In five pages this paper examines 'Paradise Lost' from Satan's vantage point in a consideration of how his role was not evil but r...

Colonial and Post Colonial American Democracy

In five pages this paper examines the US independence from Great Britain in a consideration of liberty's meaning and the cost of a...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Bondage and Freedom

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

Freedom of the Press and Its Appropriateness

In four pages this report examines whether or not the First Amendment goes too far in determining what is appropriate regarding th...

Cuba and America under Bill Clinton

Politics, rather than political ideals or defense of freedom, provided the basis for a vacillating foreign policy in relation to C...

William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Freedom

In 8 pages the ways in which this postmodern novel develops concepts of mental and physical freedom are examined. There are 8 sou...

Taiwain and the Fiction of Freedom of the Press

In ten pages ths paper examines whether or not publications in Taiwan enjoy rights of freedom of the press. There arer 4 sources ...

Freedom as Conceptualized by Christianity

In fifteen pages Chapters Eight through Ten of Corinthians, Paul's first Epistle, are studied in an examination of how the Christi...

Human Nature and Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism

In five pages this paper discusses human nature within the context of Sartre's existentialism in a consideration of the contradict...

Restraint and Freedom

do my best to see to it that the people in this city run their own affairs, and are not told what to do by bureaucrats in Washingt...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Conflict Between Freedom and Order

In seven pages this paper discusses what needs to be considered when examining the conflict of freedom vs. order in this historica...

Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel on Politics and Society

In five pages this paper presents a comparison of politics and social control as conceptualized by Nelson Mandela in The Long Walk...