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Government Authority

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller

hand, does not accept the fact that Rockefeller was a benevolent, conscionable businessman. At a time when business was literally...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

The Short Stories of Angela Carter

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Gertrude in Hamlet and Jocasta from Oedipus Compared

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Analyzing the Theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Sovereignty of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's Concept of the Majority

with "the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government." While his major focus is the framework of justifiable and workable...

'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Solving the Problem of the Homemaker in Feminist Culture

most comfortable for her. This is true whether an individual woman chooses to take work outside her home as the CEO of the worlds...

Comparative Analysis of Robert Nozick's and John Rawls' Justice Theories

In five pages the economic justice theories of Robert Nozick and John Rawls are compared and contrasted in terms of their similari...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the American Dream, a Critique of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” and Truman Capote's “Breakfast at Tiffany's”

Gatsby, and in Truman Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys, first published in 1958. Both define the American Dream as the exclusive pro...

Charlemagne's Life from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the views of Charlemagne's life presented by Notker the Stammerer and by Einhard ...

The Philosophy, Meaning, and Value of Being Good

This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...

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. ...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Critical Views of William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Comparing Siegfried Kracauer's Reality to Arnheim's Perceptions

he sees and thinks of his grandmother and has nothing to do with the present moment until the grandmother speaks (Widoger 22-23). ...

Choice Making and McTeague by Frank Norris

to make choices based upon the priorities of others rather than their own priorities. There are so many pressures from so many so...