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Martin Luther King Jr Henry David Thoreau
1,518 words
In the year 2000, one can go to most any high
school football game and observe a ritual that is
becoming more and more widespread and symbolic in
meaning to its participants. Before the football
game begins, the Star Spangled Banner is played
and sung, the flag is raised, and each schools
band plays their Alma Mater. But where in years
past there would have been a stadium-wide prayer
for the safety and happiness of players, students,
and fans, there is naught but silence. During the
few moments ...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Good And Evil
1,309 words
Marquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no
guiltier in following the primitive impulses that
govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the
sea for her waves" - La Mettrie The eighteenth
century embraced a secularized France in which the
idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the
principles by which one lived. Nature and reason
in many ways replaced God. What this change left
however, was a vacuum for the motive of morality
in society. What would compel men to behave if not
an omnipre...
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Shroud Of Turin Jesus Christ
2,091 words
The Shroud of Turin has caused much controversy in
the latter part of this century, most of it
dealing with its authenticity. It is held by many
that this is indeed the burial shroud of Jesus
Christ, and the image found on the shroud was
burned in-for lack of a better word-during the
resurrection. This subject has appeared throughout
numerous forms of media, ranging from television
specials on networks such as Discovery and The
Learning Channel, to magazines, newspapers, books
and even the Inter...
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Pleasure And Pain Pursuit Of Happiness
1,728 words
... felt, "The painful truth is that the work of
an encyclopaedists is never finished, because
facts change and knowledge expands, and because
there is always room for improvement. " For fifty
years, he did many writings on ethics. He examined
the errors in moral philosophy by four giants of
philosophy: David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart
Mill, and John Dewey. Adler reiterated his
conviction that only the ethics of Aristotle
provide reliable and pragmatic explanation to
basic moral problems. ...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Freedom Of Speech
1,786 words
... esty and unemployed welfare recipients will be
able to achieve their political goals by
manipulating local, state and national elected
officials on policies and issues that incidentally
favor them. And then radical ACLU lawyers and
liberal activist judges are eager to distort the
idea of freedom of speech to encompass lewdness,
utterances of obscenities and vulgarities in
public, nudity, hate speech, college professors
voicing anarchy, insurrection, rebellion and
class-warfare revolution and...
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The American Dream Turned Nightmare In Great Gatsby
692 words
There are many characters in The Great Gatsby
whose human values have been corrupted due to
corrupting influence of money. The attraction of
the American dream influenced the pursuit of
wealth, which corrupts the character morality. The
characters believe the American dream is nothing
else than glamorous material wealth, which in
essence will set them apart from the rest of lower
class society. The pursuit of this American dream
produced nothing but problems for the characters.
The American drea...
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Pursuit Of Knowledge Victor Frankenstein
1,530 words
PROMPT: Refer to volume one, chapter four, from
the third paragraph, One of the phenomena to the
end of the chapter. What impact does this passage
have on you and how is this achieved? This passage
is one in which Victor Frankenstein describes the
birth of his creature. Frankenstein's words and
memories reflect his feelings towards his newborn
child. This essay will examine Victor
Frankenstein's words, feelings and attitude
towards his new companion and also his creation.
Shelley uses this twelv...
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Pursuit Of Knowledge Parkinsons Disease
1,204 words
Topic: How do beliefs about the World, and beliefs
about what is valuable, influence the pursuit of
knowledge? The pursuit of scientific knowledge has
often been believed to be an exploration in which
information is gathered solely from
experimentation, but people are slow to realize
that experimentation is only one way, among a
variety of ways, in which scientists gather
information. In their pursuit of new scientific
knowledge, scientists may conduct surveys, or
build on pre-existing informati...
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Sacrificing Company Profit For The Welfare Of Society
2,855 words
Even though a companys main existence is to earn a
profit, a company that cares about the environment
is less likely to be plagued with fraud and
unethical behavior from its employees. This is
because employees become more committed to a
company who they believe is not only paying their
salary but also trying to operate in the most
environmental friendly manner as well as giving
back to the society. In this research we are going
to investigate the issues that concern the
situation that appears t...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Cross Cultural
542 words
Being a very successful psychologist of human
nature and character, David G. Myers was hailed by
many critics and readers by profound work he has
done in The Pursuit of Happiness: Discovering the
Pathway to Fulfillment, Well-Being, and Enduring
Personal Joy. Myers presented a solid professional
psychological research, analyzing different
information from various surveys and studies
covering a period more than a hundred years.
Perhaps, it was done to obtain a certain
objectivity in analysis. Howe...
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Man In The World Western Literature
837 words
The most powerful man in the world is the one that
stands alone Throughout Western literature, one
dominate theme besides the epic tale of good
versus evil exists. This theme reaches beyond
tragedies, mysteries, and dramas because it is the
underlining theme in integral literary works that
have shaped our society from the beginnings of
civilization. The most powerful man in the world
is the one that stands alone. To have the
conviction to stand alone on an issue takes
courage, fervor, and passio...
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American Dream Great Gatsby
504 words
The American Dream, as it arose in the Colonial
period and developed in the nineteenth century,
was based on the assumption that each person, no
matter what his origins, could succeed in life on
the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort.
The dream was embodied in the ideal of the
self-made man, just as it was embodied in
Fitzgeralds own family by his grandfather, P. F.
McQuillan. Fitzgeralds novel takes its place among
other novels whose insights into the nature of the
American dream hav...
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Ethical Egoism Psychological Egoism
1,868 words
In ethics egoism entails that the individual self
is either the motivating moral force and is, or
should, be the end of moral action. Egoism divides
into both a positive and normative ethic. The
positive ethic views egoism as a factual
description of human affairs, that is people are
motivated by their own interests and desires. The
normative ethic is that they should be so
motivated. Positivist egoism: Psychological Egoism
The positivist egoist, whose theory is called
psychological egoism, offe...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby
3,774 words
Why Gatsby The Great Gatsby Why did Daisy choose
Tom in the end? ? ? In the novel The Great Gatsby,
Daisy Buchanan was faced with an enormous
decision. She had to choose between Tom; her
husband and Jay Gatsby; her lover. Gatsby seemed
to be the ideal man of his time. Fabulously
wealthy, handsome, charismatic and intriguing, he
seemed to be able to offer everything a woman
could want. All he wanted in return was Daisy? s
complete unconditional love. Tom, on the other
hand could offer Daisy money...
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Gay Or Lesbian Pursuit Of Happiness
921 words
When you are born in America or legalized as a
citizen, you are granted certain unalienable
rights under the constitution and the declaration
of independence. We are granted the freedom of
speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, the
right to vote, right to bear arms and the right to
the pursuit of happiness. But is this really the
case? Are the citizens of the United States really
as free as they believe? I say no! Today I am here
to expose a great injustice in Americas judicial
system. F...
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Life Of Frederick Douglass Narrative Of The Life
1,809 words
The struggle for freedom is one that is common
among both women and men of all races. For
centuries, humankind has used many methods to
control and enslave their fellow men and women,
one of the most common being the denial of an
education. The lives of Frederick Douglass, in
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
written by himself, and Sara Smolinsky in Bread
Givers written by Anzia Yezierska are two
excellent examples of the struggle to educate
oneself in the pursuit of freedom. While th...
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Make Them Feel Power For Its Own Sake
2,459 words
A universal definition of the word power implies
agreement about the word that does not change
according to varying values, theories, or personal
philosophies. To that end, power can be defined
as: the ability to get all you want from the
environment, given what is available. This
definition can be applied to power in any context
(e. g. , military, organizational, political,
personal, intimate, etc. ). The definition is
composed of three parts, each of which requires a
brief explanation. First, ...
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Plato Idea
2,197 words
In Greek culture around the time of Plato, the
perfect ideal person was considered. Plato? s idea
that there was a perfect world of ideas affected
this pieces subject and the subject? s action.
Many works of his time period were sculptures that
were meant to be viewed from all angles,
attempting to be a closer match to that of the
ideal. This idea that the ideal world was real and
what matter not the physical also effect the
actions depicted in many works of this time
period. Most of the works a...
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Good Or Evil Pursuit Of Happiness
2,593 words
Into the Abyss Marquis de Sade and the
Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the
primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile
for her flood or the sea for her waves La Mettrie
The eighteenth century embraced a secularized
France in which the idea of utility, and not of
salvation, were the principles by which one lived.
Nature and reason in many ways replaced God. What
this change left however, was a vacuum for the
motive of morality in society. What would compel
men to behave if no...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Confederate Troops
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The battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1
through July 3, 1863, considered by most military
historians the turning point in the American Civil
War (Johnson 84). The Battle of Gettysburg was a
decisive engagement in that it arrested the
Confederates second and last major invasion of the
North, destroyed their offensive strategy, and
forced them to fight a defensive war in which the
slowness of their manufacturing capacity and
transportation facilities doomed them to defeat
(McPherson 25). The...
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