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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Paine Compared

he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...

Assignment in Expository Writing

challenging arguments facing many people today is explaining to their family that they are gay or lesbian. This is, for the major...

Life and Works of Charles Babbage

emphasis on manufacture and engineering in that region which initiated his own interest in the subjects....

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Classical Greek Poet Homer

The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...

Extraterrestrial Life Possibility

knowledge or publicly acknowledged. The question becomes where are they? However, there are those who also believe that we are per...

Discovery and Life

health arena, creating instructional programs that help others learn more about threatening health conditions and preventative mea...

How Algebra is a Fixture in Daily Life

so the measure needs to be different. Heat is measured in temperature, There are two dimensions here, heat and time. It may be tem...

Sgt. Alvin C. York's Life

As he grew older he was also well known it seems for being something of a delinquent at times. While being very good with a firear...

Aristotle and the Idea of the "Good Life"

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard

read or write were the clergy. Shrewdly, Charlemagne realized what power the clergy held over the nobles by the sheer fact that th...

Biography of D.H. Lawrence

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

British Fashion Photographer David Bailey

prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

IS HUMAN NATURE EVIL AT HEART

human concept of good and evil - bound by the tenets of yin/yang whereby to everything positive there is a negative, to every dark...

Philosophy And Skepticism

including moral evil. Epicurus, by contrast, believed just the opposite and openly asserted how the gods have no sway over anyone...

Joan of Arc

was located within the realm of the Duke of Burgundy, but while the Burgundians were in alliance with the English, Domremy had con...

Is Hedonism The Basis For The Best Life?

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...

Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture" - Experience And Failure

have to offer (Pausch et al, 2008, p. 149). Risks are not a thing to avoid in Pauschs (2008) philosophy; in fact, taking risks i...