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U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Race Concept and its History

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

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Examination of Charismatic Leadership

and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...

Contemporary Russia and Democracy

In ten pages Russia's attempts to establish both democracy and a free market economy are evaluated in terms of the concepts discus...

David Popenoe and Interracial Marriage

In eight pages a sociological view of interracial marriage is taken with the assistance of David Popenoe's concepts. Ten sources ...

Concepts of Empiricism and Common Sense

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

Ethical Relativism in a Critical Eye

are what make us the morally minded creatures we strive to be, although their principles are often overlooked or misconstrued. To...

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

French Revolution's Influences

In five pages this paper discusses the influences of Marat, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David and their radical concep...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

Frontier Influence on Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln

cry may have gone out -the army is coming! And in 1794, Washington order 13000 men to march into the frontier to "deal" with The ...

David's Kingdom

grass: as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endu...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

Society of Israel During King David's Rule

In five pages families, celebrations, food, clothing, and house construction are among the topics discussed in this consideration ...

Journeying into the Woods in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Wilderness Camps

This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...

A Tour of the Louvre

In five pages this research paper celebrates the passions of art and politics revealed in various displays of Romantic and Neoclas...

Controversy Over Utah's Wilderness Issue

In three pages this paper discusses the wilderness issue of Utah and its controversy. Three sources are cited in the bibliography...

Wilderness 'Environmental Management' Impact Minimalizing

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of preserving wilderness integrity in a discussion of the effects of environment...

Firefighting and Helicopters

In ten pages the wilderness and urban uses of helicopters in fighting fires are examined in terms of technology and training requi...

Literary Evidence of American Society in the Early Twentieth Century

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...

The Man Eater of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan

most content to remain as such. He symbolizes the way in which the British colonials first ventured into India as Christian missi...

The Rebellion and Absalom

helpful to examine how the Bible portrays both of these men. The story of Absalom is covered in the second book of Samuel, and beg...

Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...