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David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein

was especially moved by your frustration, and the way you felt that all your education and training was useless to you in this sit...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

The Bursting Point by David Brooks

the truth. He didnt prepare the first responders for a terrorist attack. The Office of Emergency Management was a joke that day. T...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

Kingship in Israel

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

Contradictions in the Biblical Story of David

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

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...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...

Philosophies of William David Ross

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

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...

Voting and Demographic Shifts

economy grow strong and continue to flourish. Unfortunately, however, it had been throughout that part of the century that this i...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Jewish Uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943

when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Comedy and 'We' Rather Than 'I'

people in the same manner, with confidence, sarcasm, and wit. In the scene under discussion we see "the pink one" asking Psmith, "...

Post 1984 Transitions in South Africa

of having been there. This autobiography is at once fascinating and unbelievable, torturous and sometimes funny; but underneath i...

Hume’s Dialogue Updated

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Madame Butterfly and Cultural Context

while, the duplicity of each of these dichotomies becomes apparent. In fact the first direct comparison would be that of Gallimard...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

'The Looking Glass' Article by Lawrence Weschler

In five pages this report examines the article that appeared in a January 2000 issue of The New Yorker in which American artist Da...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...