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Contemporary World and Class Struggle

power and cannot be equated with a salary range. The fisherman who may bring in six figures one year may never be considered a par...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Taoism and Buddhism

centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

Overview of Taoism

life" which "surrounds everyone and therefore everyone must listen to find enlightenment" (Robinson, 2003). The many gods which ar...

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

Description of Buddhism

as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Modern Day Slavery

Human trafficking is often thought of as one of the more abhorrent reflections of world history. At the most, we reason, human tr...

Reflection on The Ten Commandments

this theme forward, the next commandments lay the foundation for civilized society. The first of these social commandments is to...

Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

Modern World and Christianity

eighteenth centuries was the formulation of the additions to the doctrine of the apostles in modern times (Marty, 1959). The first...

Suicide by Emile Durkheim and its Relevance

the field of psychology has changed quite a bit and so, to speak of insanity in those terms is somewhat antiquated. Today, there a...

Civilizations of Ancient Times

extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...

An Examination of Hydroponics' Applications

support for plants. In the hydroponic environment nutrients (particularly Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, S...

Regulations and Societies in Ancient China

many boundaries imposed by the strictly regulated patriarchal society. During this time period, it was believed that peoples acti...

Alternative Learning Perspectives

In a paper consisting of ten pages alternative learning from a cultural perspective is explored as a relevant choice in a contempo...

Review of William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses disease spread in a political interpretation of this book as it applies to the contemporary wor...

Modern World and Marxism

the utopia that Marx sees as a communist society. Yet, the final three parameters of this human journey involve capitalism, social...

Susan Mattern's Rome and the Enemy Imperial Strategy in The Principate

In five pages this book is examined in an overview that wonders if the contemporary world could have such a foreign policy. Three...

Environmental Racism and Nuclear Colonialism

In five pages this paper discusses nuclear colonialism and environmental racism and the impact of technology on the contemporary w...

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...

Chi Kong Discipline

kinds of Chi which exist in our bodies: *Gu Chi (grain Chi) - generates our bodys energy(Cohen, 1999). *Kong Chi (air in lung) - e...

Taoism and Jainism

that he is a mythical character" (Anonymous Taoism taoism.htm). As for the primary beliefs of this religion we find that Tao is...

Excerpt from Euthyphro by Plato

impious act. Euthyphro replies to Socrates claiming "I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a re...

Ethics of German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie and Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe Compared

her. The son would have no say in the match, for this is how the marriage ritual had been performed for generations. The only qu...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" - Technology

is how science fiction portrays this futuristic idea. Indeed, the extent to which films and books have expounded upon the potenti...