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Noncharitable Association Gifts

the laws differ based on whether that organization is a charity or a non-charity. An unincorporated association, in the m...

Essays on Economic Topics

rational minds could control the situation for the common good (Kleisen 07B). Studies by the World Bank and other academic groups...

British Workforce and the Growing Participation of Women Since the Second World War

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

How Social Interaction and Social Structure Shape Personal Experiences

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

Three Theories on Aging Compared

different aging theories, i.e., what causes the aging process. Three such theories are discussed in this essay: The Wear and Tear ...

Issues of First Amendment Law

In the first of these cases, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, a trash hauler in Kansas had his contract terminated because...

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Free Will

the elimination of evil is indeed a good thing, no matter how it is arrived at, the truth according to Burgess is that oppressing ...

Free Market, Private Property, and Freedom of the Press

paper is to explore that complex relationship as it falls under the liberal philosophy, that great tradition epitomized by such ph...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Free Will and the Future

determine their own choices, as opposed to being automatically programmed for response. The concept of a rational society, in whi...

Free Will and Fate

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

Foner and Berlin on Slavery's End

national level and then to the local level. In this publication, Foner avoids popular rhetoric and mawkish sentimentality and cho...

North and South Equation and Globalization Essays

is at a slower pace it is more rural. Due to this, it seems that education is better up North as well. This situation exists for ...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

Characters and Their Motives in Oedipus

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

Were Adam and Eve Influenced By the Snake or Free Will?

God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Conscience, but they did not heed his admonition. Convinced by the serpent th...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Free Market and Competition

to a consensus as to how resources are distributed and the kind of commodities which are produced and sold. Consequently, the mark...

Global Free Trade, WTO, and GATT

in effect. The relative attractiveness of foreign goods to U. S. buyers, and of U. S. goods to foreign buyers, depends in part on...

NAFTA's Impact upon Mexico's Prosperity

In five pages this paper discusses how prosperity in Mexico was not achieved as a result of the North American Free Trade Treaty. ...

NAFTA's Environmental Policy

In twelve pages this paper considers the North American Free Trade Agreement in terms of the environmental concerns that resulted....

Freedom of Speech According to Duke University Professor Stanley Fish

In twenty one pages this paper critiques Professor Stanley Fish's views on freedom of speech as expressed in There's No Such thing...

Determinism and Free Will

In a paper consisting of five pages the extent of free will in light of behavior determinism is assessed. Two sources are cited i...

1800 Great Britain and Imprisonment

In five pages this paper examines how capitalism influenced the system of punishment in Great Britain at the beginning of the nine...

An Examination of Nozick and Rawls Theories

In this paper of five pages the free market entitlement theory of Nozick's is compared and contrasted with John Rawls' notion that...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

'Obligation of Promises' According to David Hume

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

Coimparative Analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

was a perfect way for Wilde to successfully lampoon the British aristocracy. The sophisticated farce enabled Wilde to fulfill a l...

Tariffs, Exports, and Imports

with Canada. The same period represented direct investment of Mexican and Canadian goods into the United States as being thirty b...