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David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

Social Inequities According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Eugene O'Neill

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Dictatorships and Foreign Policy of the United States

its right-wing allies, "he may be a son-of-a-bitch, but is our son-of-a-bitch" (Schmitz 4). Schmitz traces the origin of this ch...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau and the Time Concept

He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...

Philosophies of William David Ross

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Voting and Demographic Shifts

economy grow strong and continue to flourish. Unfortunately, however, it had been throughout that part of the century that this i...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Jewish Uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943

when David was witness to Goliaths rantings, David offered to fight the Giant in order to allow victory over the Philistines (The ...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

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...

The Thematic Element in Art

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

Edmund David Cronon's Black Moses The story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

between the races worsened in the 1920s" (pp. 64). Information from the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Associatio...

Perfection Seeking in Literature

Using these two authors as our information base, we might say that one, in light of our life today, chose an unrealistic goal. The...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

Things in Perspective

The writer discusses Albert Borgmann and David Strong's perspectives as they relate to the mankind's devices. The paper is five pa...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Economic Contributions of Theorist David Ricardo

In six pages the contributions of theorist David Ricardo to economics and contemporary thought are examined. Ten sources are cite...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Miracles According to David Hume

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

Mind Philosophy

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

How America's Schools Cheat Girls

The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...

Canada as a Multinational Entity

This five page paper investigates the friction in play between French Canadians and those of English descent. The paper relies ex...

Multiculturalism and David A. Hollinger's Postethnic America

with whatever non-descent communities are available and appealing to them" (p. 116). Hollinger calls such a vision "postethnic" t...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...