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PERSUADING AND EXPLAINING: OBTAINING A RAISE

An employee raise is probably the farthest thing from her mind. Heres how such a persuasion might be presented....

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Gap Customer Service and Marketing Communications

and other community events, marketing communications is another area in which the GAP can make its presence known. One way in whic...

INTRODUCTORY LETTER MODEL

This 3-page paper is an example of an introductory letter to a professor or classmates....

Organizational Responsibility and Ethics

low and they stopped taking Medicare patients (Gale, 1999). While there was a campaign for higher subsidies, nothing really happen...

Maya Art

person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...

Motivation and Turks and Caicos Islands Keynote Graduation Speech

In eight pages this paper represents and example of how to motivate graduating students with an inspirational keynote address....

Mead on Warfare

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Development of an Individual Value Framework

go beyond the generally accepted rights and wrongs, which may be taught in religions but are rarely seen within the law, such as c...

Unpopularity, Societal Disapproval and a Socratic Dialogue

David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche

from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

Hume, Kant, and Aristotle

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

Moral Philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...

Epistemology and Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

One Method for Quality Improvement

Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a statistician and was asked to help the Japanese government with their post-war census. While there, he...

Science is Freedom, Their Relationship

This essay draws on the philosophy of Kant and Fichte, and argues that science freed humanity by offering a means to understand re...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Rousseau on Sexual Equality

This essay examines the writing of French philosophy Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The writer specifically examines Rousseau's discourse ...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

The Nursing Metaparadigms/Nursing Philosophy

tree is the founding theory of modern nursing, the theory formulated by Florence Nightingale. There are three branches in this ana...

Utopian Thought and Transcendentalism

In eight pages this essay discusses the philosophy of transcendentalism and whether or not it is rooted in what is referred to as ...

Property Concepts of Karl Marx and Jean Jacques Rousseau

such "luxuries" as central air conditioning and a built-in dishwasher. Today, these items are considered essential. Similarly, mos...

Cultural Diversity/Religion in South Africa

doing, we become fully human, but that humanness is reliant on our connections with others. When these connections are good, embra...