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Essays 271 - 300

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

The History of Government in Italy

of the House of Savoy became King of Italy in 1861 and Rome was incorporated in 1870 (U.S. Department of State, 2006)....

Assessing the Financial Feasibility of a New Product

total amount that it costs. To calculate this we need to add tighter the start up costs and then look at how quickly this can be e...

Plato and Gender

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

This Republic of Suffering

things as the often unnoticed reality wherein many dead were never identified. It illustrate, even, how some people were believed...

Lessons Taught by the First World War

that had to be destroyed. Smoter also wrote that Hitler that "propaganda played a large role in the German failure." He learned t...

Vladimir Zelezy and TV Nova

have helped him stay in touch with what audiences really wanted, it also gave him a platform as a face of TV Nova that facilitated...

Definitions of a Republic

what is proper and what is improper behavior. These rules evolve into laws and government evolves so that the law can be enforced...

Suetonius' Views on the Republic vs the Principate

this was simply a nicety. The Principate did not require that citizen rights take precedence in decision making and the Emperors ...

Controversy over a Name - Macedonia

The writer looks at the problems faced by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and their conflict with Greece over the name. ...

Persepolis

that is precisely what it is. Satrapi is Iranian, and her autobiography gives Westerners the chance to understand what its like to...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Canada's Monarchal Rule

large. John Hauber explains that while many Canadians feel a sense of loyalty to their queen, there have been changes in the past ...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

Democracy in Europe

and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...

Aristotle, Plato, and the Influence of Socrates

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

Middle Class Impact of the Weimar Republic

parties during the first war. This brief government was doomed to failure from the beginning, it can be said in hindsight. Consi...

Dictatorship, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy According to Plato

is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...

The Roman Shift from Republic to Empire

the will of the masses for personal gain...A citizens class was fixed by birth rather than by wealth. Patricians monopolized all o...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

Soul Concepts of Plato

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

European Union Membership of the Czech Republic

necessary in order to meet EU requirements (Miko, et al, 1998). Meeting the environmental requirements of the EU proved to be one ...