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Philosophical and Social Contexts of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...

Civic Duty, the Community, and Individualism

what could be, seeing community as important and contingent on something he calls social capital. University Professor Robert D. ...

UK Rewards and Payment Systems

that still are active, from the teachers unions and the NHS through to the fire-fighters and the policies. Moreover, when we look...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

'Irish Conversation' Metaphor and Southwest Airlines

Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...

Debate on FDR's New Deal of the 1930s

Of course, the taxes which go to Social Security are not exactly set aside for the individual per se, but people are provided with...

Three Differing Views of the Origin of Religion

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Individualism and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) attempted to foster employment while promoting environmental conservation7. Young men were r...

Individualism and Democracy

In five pages contemporary democracy is discussed in terms of how it can be threatened by radical individualism. Three sources ar...

Following Christ in a Consumer Society by Kavanaugh

thesis is credible in that it draws on concepts that many experience on a daily basis. Consumerism has wreaked havoc in American s...

Contemporary Organization and Collaborative Individualism

Until the global market took over as the key factor in business, companies were organized in a variety of ways ranging from the tr...

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and How it Might be Viewed by Sigmund Freud

would be no hope of redemption or change - precisely the atmosphere that existed in Levis account. The "eye for an eye" mentality...

Ideas from The Social Contract

of sorts, between the people and the legislators. General will, then is the majority desire for a certain way of life or course o...

Workplace Individualism and Teamwork

solve a problem, as it is the team or group that receive the praise and not the individual. It is also argued that these theories ...

Issues of Multiple Identity as They Relate to Nationalism and Individualism

both a person who is unique in his own right and a member of society. It seems that individualism as a concept...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

American Society and the Distribution of Health Care

In six pages health care system distribution in the United States is considered in a discussion of why the Clinton proposal failed...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

American Society in Three Literary Views

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Goals, Beliefs, Values, and Norms of American Society and its Subcultures

have purposefully separated themselves from the rest of society as a means by which to build a community of their own jurisdiction...

American Society and Christian Education

this issue before settling upon a concept known as "the common school," which was implemented in Massachusetts and New York during...

Trouble in American Society

is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a m...

Gender Norms in American Society

the role of aggressor. Kimmel (2000) has observed that all cultures share the concept that men and women are different, and that...

The Impact of Female Writers in Early American Society

to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

American Society, Abortion, Socialization, and the Development of Racist and Sexist Attitudes

in todays world; however, as much as humanity has moved away from racism, there has been more of a detrimental impact through soci...

Society and Politics of Italian Americans

For example, they like to focus on characters such as Al Capone instead of individuals who contributed a great deal to America and...