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Latin American Revolutions and Marxist Thought

broke from capitalism (Townshend, 1996). The other way of thinking was that it would be possible for Socialism to succeed in Lati...

American Political Thought: A Look at the Presidency of Ronald Reagan

did. He was so confident in his vision, that people automatically would trust in the things he said. In reviewing his stint as pr...

Beowulf, Tempest, Don Quixote/Their Lasting Appeal

size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

U.S. and Thoughts on the Great Depression

period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...

Article Analysis on Begley's Wired for Thought

understanding of difficult physical concepts. For instance, Begley notes that a baby seeing something suspended in mid-air will be...

Reviewing Stuart R. Schram's The Political Thought of Mao Tse Tung

several changes put into the text with the benefit of hindsight. The reason for this was the first version appeared outdated after...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

Romance and Epic in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of Lancelot and Guenevere' and 'Beowulf'

1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...

Types of Threats in Confessions by Augustine, Apology by Plato, and the Epic 'Beowulf'

adversely influencing the minds of young boys. Augustines autobiographical Confessions ponders the external social threats of sex...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Self and Suppressing Black Feminist Thought

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

Social Work and the Importance of the Christian Thought

as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...

U.S. and Schools of Economic Thought

and that and other factors were wreaking havoc on the national economy. It was the position of John Maynard Keynes that gov...

U.S. and Influential Schools of Economic Thought

Thought Schools of Political Economy Neoclassical Schools Alternative Schools Thematic Schools Pre-Classical Anglo-American Heter...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

The Political Thought of Machiavelli

that what is done is not as important as the character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. At the same time, unlike a preach...

Major Schools of Thought Regarding Personality

In four pages the primary theories regarding personality are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Personality and its Various Schools of Thought

Freud, then, believed that there are substantial elements of the personality that are shaped by genetics and substantial elements ...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Did Descartes Question His Own Thought Process?

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

Hamlet: Thought, Feeling, Action

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

Hesse’s Siddhartha, A Reflection

researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...

"Sling Blade"

boy who have taken him into their home, and he grows ever intolerant of Doyles inhumane behavior - the same behavior he endured hi...

Relationship Between Baconian And Cartesian Philosophy During The Scientific Revolution

his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...

How Does A Particular Intentional Mental State, Such As A Belief Or A Desire, Come To Have Its Particular Content?

To conjure a concept is to bring about thought; however, the question as to where and how that thought originated continues to be ...