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Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Adam and Eve and Current Relevance

Bible, it is a common experience that they interpret it according to how they have been taught. For example, Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

Women of Ancient Greece and Rome

of their bodies and exercise often, sometimes along with the men, and sometimes by themselves" (Anonymous Legal Status in the Gree...

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

Tsarist Period Russian Peasants and Modern Workers Compared

slowly but surely being cast aside. It can be argued that with the weakening influence of World War I, reason and freedom stood l...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

Old Testament Covenant

deity, was the "first principle, the very foundation of the divinely willed order of things" (McCarthy 136). However, it is not e...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In nine pages the metaphor and symbolism in the poem 'Snake' are discussed as well as the author's life and the perceptions of him...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Computer Science's Shifting Paradigm

they became more common and more accessible. Shift of Paradigm A favorite saying of Mary...

Approaches to Science, Richard Pirsig's Work, and the Text Science and Its Ways of Knowing

In four pages this paper examines various scientific approaches as featured in Richard Pirsig's work and in this text. Three sour...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Queen of Sciences' Description of Psychology

In eight pages this research paper analyzes Nietzsche's description of psychology. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Cognitive Science And Information Technology

ability to outreason and outlearn their human counterparts, leaving humanity open to an entirely unknown reality if that is ever t...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Christology of Matthew Fox

and orientation. Fox argues that there is a "creation-centered spirituality" within the framework of Christian tradition that shou...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Newspapers Their History and Their Future

Newspapers have played an incredibly important role in world history. For the last five hundred years of so, in fact, newspapers ...