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Acquisison of Language and B.F. Skinner's Operant Behavioral Theory

In a paper consisting of five pages B.F. Skinner's major arguments regarding verbal behavior are examined in terms of their implic...

Federal, State, and Local Environmental Laws

air pollutants, Canada, Japan and several European countries followed suit, as well (Anonymous PG). However, in spite of the sign...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Women and Their Religious Ordination

take pleasure in the marital act; that killing infidels was a way to salvation; that taking interest on a loan was forbidden; that...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophical Views of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...

Immanuel Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

Justice and Injustice in The Republic by Plato

means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...

Sun Significance in The Republic by Plato

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

Sociology of Religion and Emile Durkheim

In six pages Durkheim's sociological arguments regarding religion are considered and then opposes his social practice enactment th...

Head Start Importance

In ten pages this research paper examines Head Start in an overview of its history as well as pro and con arguments regarding the ...

Freedom and America

allow their child to be refused medicine that would save their lives if they are of a religion that insists on such action. This n...

Should There be Legalization of Same Sex Marriages?

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Controversy of Cloning Human Beings

this kind of assertion is challenged by medical interests, including corporate interests and the views of medical professionals, w...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Human Cloning

the one is more credible than the other in that it relies on fact rather than opinion. The paper concludes that given the moral a...

The Peloponnesian War as Described by Thucydides

At the beginning of this extended speech, the representative from Corcyra prefaces his narrative of events with an appeal that is ...

Pluralism Problem and Joseph Ratzinger's The Nature and Mission of Theology

(Ratzinger 16). In other words, philosophy eschews revelation. Theology, on the other hand, is "rational reflection upon Gods reve...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

Employment Drug Testing

based on a contractual agreement for economic means and the obligations only reach as far as what is agree upon in the contract of...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Fate and Fortune

that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them; and because of this they would have us believe t...

'Of Identity And Diversity' According to John Locke

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

A Business Ethics Case Study

going through a predecessors files, he discovers a secret internal report about the companys new drug Colstop. This drug, introduc...

Letter of the Law and Freedom of Speech

as the first amendment freedom of speech. The last fifty years have seen case after case weigh heavily the question of censorship ...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

Ontological Argument on God's Existence by Rene Descartes

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Economic Growth and Inventions

1836. The beginning of this coincides wit the revival of the economy and the return to prosperity. The end of this increase is see...

Global Politics, Imbalance of Power, and Theories of Neoconservatism and Neorealism

that we must act not only to preserve world peace but to aggressively protect our own integrity. Kagan (2003) contends that the U...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...