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Essays 511 - 540

Americanism

statement also embodies that characteristic which is most American. The American is one who wants the best that life has to offer....

Virtual World and Electronic Commerce

quite sophisticated and "a large number of potential users may interact with each other" (Shen, Radakrishnan and Georganas, 2002; ...

Kantian Philosophy and Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction

lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

Classical Sociology and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

apartment or services, they end up on the streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not ha...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Economic Growth and Innovation

of laundry detergent. Levitt (1986) used the railroad industry in the US as his example. Railroads began to decline when t...

Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Free Will and Saint Augustine

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Edward Said's 'Self' and 'Other' Concepts in an Examination of English as a Global Language

have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is t...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

Concept of Quanxi in Wild Swans by Jung Chang

quanxi that allow them to distinguish between actions that are virtuous and those that are dishonorable within the scope of this t...

Capitalism and Citizenship

leaders (1995). Of course, one has to pause and notice that this is not equality. It means that only the men ruled. Although it wa...

Paradox of American Power by Joseph Nye

States as well as increased saturation of the Soviet Union with propaganda and goods. In other words: containment. This idea of ...

Military Courts and Justice

people do not commit more crime but rather they are perhaps caught more often when they do. In other words, a white man is less li...

The Concept of 'Freedom' of Choice as Perceived by Epictetus, Epicurus, and Aristotle

be regarded as involuntary because it is not externally rooted in another person; but it is irrational and therefore not represent...

Humility in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and i...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

The Happiness Key According to Aristotle

it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...

An Overview of International Trade

foreign currency. This will be in terms of the wages that are paid to the workers, the income it creates with the other inputs tha...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

The Architectonic Spaces Theories of Architect Dom Hans Van Der Laan

Van Der Laan was a Benedictine monk who lived from 1904-1991. He was born in Holland and both his father and several of his broth...

Great Britain's Asian and Black Culture

comparison, not just with mainstream society but with their better-off brother and sisters" (BBC News, 2000). According to Profes...

'The Epic of Gilgamesh' Heroic Analysis

which features the exploits of a heroic protagonist, is used. Although it was Homer who popularized this literary form with his p...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris

just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...

Race Concept and its History

that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...