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A Health Official’s Fight Against Smoking

since records have been made (United Press International, 2009). This is down from 21.5% in 2002 (United Press International, 2009...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

MONARCY AND FREEDOM: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

behind horrors, leading to situations in which there is censorship of the press, little education and "goodness trod under foot, t...

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

Bayesian Logic and CoffeeTime's 'Borrow Information'

houses in closer proximity to the university or financial district turn a better profit than those in more outlying locations (whi...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

God's Existence and Morality

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers

he was likely proud of his accomplishments in law, but by and large, his primary contribution include two elements: the presidency...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Consumerism Perspectives of Thomas Frank and Susan Strasser

the development and marketing of a product--Procter and Gambles Crisco, a solid vegetable shortening that went on the market in 19...

4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

Existence of God

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

America of the Eighteenth Century and the Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson

in the Virginia (Leary 42). Palladios designes were: "... inspired by the temples and villas of Ancient Rome. Palladio project...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

Toni Cade Bambara's 'The Lesson,' Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Blissful Ignorance

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Richard Valantasis' The Gospel of Thomas

in these passages. Ostensibly, this is a saying of Jesus and part of his ministry. Therefore, if one substitutes the word light to...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Kingdom and Sowell's Views on America

into two very obviously distinct groups. These groups of citizens may not have the same political party affiliation or the same ec...

An Article on Subliminal Perception Critiqued

in procedural variation. In this experiment, the researchers recruited 137 college students to listen to a tape of contemporary ja...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

Literary Representations of King Arthur's Death

the beginning, the play of the sword, and the final passage of Arthur. Malory and Tennyson: The Beginning In Malorys version o...

Necessity of Government

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...