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Essays 1471 - 1500
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
from the perceived "productive worker" to the now retired idle person. This time of life can be even more traumatic than adolescen...
as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...
with his daughters, who think hes gone off the deep end with grief. She becomes his companion, gives him a reason to get out of b...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...
from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...
playful" by groping the private parts of women, are no longer able to get away with such behavior. Yet, the society has gone furth...
issues concern youth and the treatment of youth as adults. Acknowledging that there is a difference between youth and adult offend...
science or subjects in the humanities do not. Both classic philosophy and modern philosophy seem to make political philosophy a qu...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
seem to discuss how she is a gift perhaps, sent from some higher power. This would indicate that she is perhaps thought to be beau...
possessed a higher IQ and the ability to reason. With this discovery, Singer writes, the line between a divine being and the lesse...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
most fledgling state prior to stamping them from reality. Many theories have been presented to explain Hitlers actions but ...
intellectual movement in its early days, it is increasingly becoming divided into different factions which have a direct relevance...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
their social philosophies interact with Austens novel. Sense and Sensibility "In an age which extolled the virtues of expressi...
It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...
common people school education, which used to be privilege of ruling class...Confucius advocated a set of moral code on basis of f...
that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...
He also speaks in considerable detail of their personal habits, which he apparently finds both appalling and fascinating. Interest...
in the total population and the population of working age: Iwata states that "It will diminish to about 40 percent of the current ...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...