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Materialism and Ethics Links

In five pages the connection between devoid morality and material wealth is examined with the argument being that pursuit of mater...

Good Mother 'Myth' Perpetuated by Princess Diana

sad. Elton John rewrote Candle in the Wind for Diana, one of her favorites, and played it at her funeral. This version was mass p...

Socrates' and Life's Objective

In three pages this paper discusses 'the pursuit of excellence' deemed by Socrates as life's goal. There are no other sources lis...

'Operation Optimize and AcuScan

of sales revenues, but the manner in which it is presented causes no one to want to cooperate. Pats assumptions include: * Kelly ...

Master's Degree in Public Administration

trends in public administration - community building and modernizing of the organization (Nalbandian and Nalbandian, 2003). The em...

Overview of a Computer Internship Essay

certain jobs, and that the workplace environment and the job focus reflect elements of personality. The personality types of job ...

Girls v. Boys and Different Socialization Expectations in an Academic Setting

male and female children. They contend that these differences are the result of differences in socialization. Observation of chi...

Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Overview of the 'New South Africa'

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

Life's Ultimate Questions by John P. Newport

The knowers reaction to truth is important, but the truth is not dependent upon that reaction" (Newport PG). Newport sugge...

Towards Universal Happiness: Issues, Insights/Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges in Business Ethics

and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....

Holton/Forced Founders

describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...

Achieving Sense of Well-Being

A relatively new branch in psychology is positive psychology. Maslow coined the name for this branch. It is a field that looks at ...

Positive Thinking: Increases Happiness

is honest with oneself and aware of the control one has over ones outlook, overcoming sadness-inducing obstacles becomes easier an...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

A Southern Leader Civil War

James Longstreet graduated from West Point where he was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry, and s...

The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

This essay addresses issues in Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" and how he perceives what is good and virtuous and the relatio...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

Summry of Jefferson Davis' Speech on Property Rights

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Sigmund Freud on Happiness

this path in the pursuit of happiness if there was no catch. The problem is, as Freud (1989) saw it was that love relationships al...

How to Live Well

however, the concept of happiness too has been the subject of considerably philosophical thought. There is even considerable cont...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Happiness

In five pages this paper examines happiness as reflected in two oppositional views presented in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...

Meaning of Grace Slick's Song White Rabbit

. . sure, Sgt. Pepper gave the Summer of Love its soundtrack, but White Rabbit melted the patchouli-scented essence of 1967 into t...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art

sometimes referred to as processes, which in their struggle and tension with one another move the Universe forward or backward as ...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Character Contrasts of Lt. Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

for after Willys suicide, the man who sought popularity more than anything else was remembered in death only by his wife Linda and...

Kantian Concept Happiness and Metaphysics of Morals

In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...