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A Perfect Society Essays and Term Papers
NATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNE’S THE SCARLET LETTER
Since the beginning of time, man has gathered himself in communities in order to better facilitate the needs and interests of individuals. As institutions developed to govern these communities, the idea of a “collective good” emerged. Central to the idea of a collective ...
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The Lord Of The FliesThe world had witnessed the atrocities of World War II and began to examine the defects of their social ethics. Man's purity and innocence was gone. Man's ability to remain civilized was faltering. This change of attitude was extremely evident in the literature of the age. Writers, who through ...
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Utopia Vs. DystopiaEach person has their own vision of utopia. Utopia means an ideal state, a paradise, a land of enchantment. It has been a central part of the history of ideas in Western Civilization. Philosophers and writers continue to imagine and conceive plans for an ideal state even today. They use models ...
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LyricsIn our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and
spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we
must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are
not examples for the children or ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of The Social StructureCharles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and ...
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Oedipus The KingSophocles "" is a tragic play which discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. The story of Oedipus was well known to the athenian’s. Oedipus is the embodiement of the perfect Athenian. He is self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed. ...
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Henry David Thoreau's WaldenIf I were asked who my favourite Western Zen philosopher was,
without any hesitation, I would declare it to be Henry David Thoreau.
Although he knew in translation the religious writings of the Hindus, it
may be unlikely that Henry David Thoreau ever studied the teachings of the
Zen Masters. Even ...
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Computer Crime: Prevention and Innovation
Since the introduction of computers to our society, and in the early 80’s the Internet, the world has never been the same. Suddenly our physical world got smaller and the electronic world set its foundations for an endless electronic reality. As we approach the ...
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CandideWealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most people’s lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In , wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward ...
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Spartawas a city-state in Greece on the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Laconia. This city-state was predominately a military society. City-states were independent geographical locations usually surrounded by walls with their own form of government. Because of the mountainous rugged terrain of ...
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The Evolution Of A Disc JockeyIn The Hip-Hop Culture
With the turn of the century, a musical evolution began. The phonograph was part of this musical change. It was a simple musical output device. The role of
this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the ...
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Legalization Of DrugsThe image of an egg being "our brain on drugs" is still clear to us ten years after the popular commercial was on television. Society today has accepted into its mainstream that drugs are a negative force in our society, and "the toll of drug use measured in lost productivity, in rising health ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Who Is The Greatest Sinner??
Geoffrey Chaucer once said, “ The guilty think all talk is of themselves.” In the case of Hester Prynne, a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is true. Hester Prynne is a middle-aged woman who has committed a sin in the Puritan society and is punished by the ...
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Suicide Is Not ChoosenThe intentional killing of oneself or an act that is destructive to oneself (Oxford, 919). That statement hits home with many people in this world. It is this whispered word that one parent may tell another parent how their child attempted suicide. Suicide seems to be a hushed subject that ...
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IntelligenceThe increasingly difficult life for low IQ people is not caused by high IQ people, but by other factors. Segregation and tension occur across IQ lines by the nature of humanity and not by the implications of high IQ people.
Let's face it, life is tough for everyone regardless of his or her ...
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Brave New World - Compared To Fahrenheit 451Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are two books, both of which are supposed to be set in the future, which have numerous theme similarities throughout them. Of all their common factors, the ones that stand out most would have to be first, the outlawed reading of books; second, the preservation of ...
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Social DarwinismCHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
It is commonly thought today that the theory of evolution originated from Darwin in the nineteenth century. However, the idea that species mutated over time has been around for a long
time in one form or another. Therefore, by Darwin's time the idea ...
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The Societal Implications Of "The Yellow Wallpaper"In early nineteenth century literature, women were extremely confined in their topics of writing. It was rare to see a woman write about oppression, resentment towards the patriarchal society they lived in, or their frustration over the submissive relationships that women were forced into (713). ...
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Knowledge And Technology In AConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a complicated novel that fundamentally deals with the concept of the human experience. Hank Morgan is a nineteenth century mechanic who is transported back thirteen centuries to medieval Britain, during the ...
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History Of The Far EastBuddhism came to Japan in the sixth century AD, it was the world's first religion since it originated in India and developed in China. Japanese culture was undeveloped, there was no real literature, or historical records and laws, also the arts and sciences were almost totally undeveloped ( de ...
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