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Life and Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In five pages this research paper explores the early 19th century philosopher's life and approach to philosophy with emphasis bein...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

US Foreign Policy, National Security & Terrorism

as "not free" (Eland 38). It is therefore simplistic to think that terrorist leaders, such as bin Laden, would close up shop due t...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Greek Funerary Vase/Krater ca. 750-735 BC

base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Divorce in America

hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...

No More, No More by Daniel Walker

express themselves on a wide range of topics, which included such issues as moral justice and the nature of community. For example...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Spielberg/Amistad

of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...

Ezra 9:10-14

written, i.e., which one came first (Davies, et al x). This aspect of scholarship is complicated by the fact that both books were ...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

History Plays of William Shakespeare

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

Women and Orgasm

orgasms or pleasure had been routinely ignored. For many years it was routinely believed that there was no biological reason for a...

Historical Overview of Radio

the German physicist, Heinrich Hertz, discovered radio waves. They were seen as "a form of electromagnetic radiation with waveleng...

Golf Course Designs Compared

options in regards to moving land. Many of the courses which were developed in the 19th century have since undergone several modif...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Parabolas and Hyperbolas

cutting the cone is angled, the ellipse produced will be correspondingly more elongated, up to the point where the curve is no lon...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Significance and Historical Accuracy of the Book of Exodus

Genesis and Exodus compiled these texts during the Persian Period of Israelite history (or later0 and, therefore, "had virtually n...

Examination of Domestic Violence

establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, ...