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Essays 211 - 240
with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...
Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...
of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...
Freedom is cherished the world over. Not all that cherish freedom, however, actually have it. Unfortunately, there is often an i...
This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...
with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...
speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...
to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...
In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...
This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...
This paper examines human society organization in this overview of social institutions, pluralism and elitism differences, case an...
and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as...