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Morality Essays and Term Papers
The American Dream: A Bittersweet EvolutionBo Starke
Mr. Richburg
AP 11
7 February 2011
The American Dream: A Bittersweet Evolution
On July 4, 1776, Congress declared that every American citizen has the unalienable right to discover and fulfill what makes them happy in life. America’s offering of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...
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Communist ManifestoCommunist Manifesto Summary
The Communist Manifesto opens with the famous words "The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles," and proceeds in the next 41 pages to single-mindedly elaborate this proposition (79). In section 1, "Bourgeois and Proletarians," Marx ...
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Sexual Education“A mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity.” Different people will disagree about the veracity of this statement, but we know that it does not reflect the experiences of the majority of young people. Yet sex education ...
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AbortionA couple decades ago, when abortion was illegal, thousands of women died because they did not want to bear an infant and attempted to terminate the child's life by themselves or with an unprofessional approach. After 1973's Supreme Court decision, which allowed women to have the choice to ...
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My TheoryOver this semester we have studied philosophies and theories ranging from Confucianism to Darwinian theories. All and all, we have gained a better understanding of the many ways in which we can view the universe and human nature. I find myself however, asking “What kinds of things remain constant ...
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Crossing the Bridge Between Insanity and TranquillityImagine a world divided by two separate meanings, and in between the seemingly separate worlds, lies a bridge. On one side of the bridge is a land of complete insanity. A land where the inhabitants run free with a very small sense of morality. On the other side of the bridge, however, rests a ...
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Religion in Dennett's WritingsWe live in a world where people have the right to choose their own personal form of religious worship. Many people truly do believe that without the presence of religion in their lives that their life has no meaning. The writings of Dennett have both strong and weak points that I can relate ...
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Abortion Debate and MetaphysicsThe connection between abortion debate and metaphysics is very similar. Metaphysics knows about religion and spirituality and abortion debate is how abortion is morally wrong. Since metaphysics is about spirituality then abortion is wrong. Abortion debate also states that it abortion isn’t right, ...
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John D. Rockefeller, Villain or Role Model?It was the turn of the twentieth century, cities were growing, industries were developing, and the economy was booming. It was the industrial age and at a time in history when there were few governmental restraints or regulations. People with a drive to succeed soon saw a multitude of ...
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Martha Nussbaum And CosmopolitainismHumankind would be a better place if we were all just citizens of the world. In Martha Nussbaum’s “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” she argues whether children should be taught in education to be patriotic or cosmopolitan. Nussbaum’s definition of cosmopolitanism is a person whose primary ...
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HamletCharacters of
Shakespear's Plays -
By William Hazlitt
(First Published 1817)
This is that Hamlet the Dane whom we read of in our youth, and whom we may be said almost to remember in [74] our after years; he who made that famous soliloquy on life, who gave the advice to the players, who ...
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Sojourner TruthStrong, phenomenal, and courageous are but a few words that describe the woman known to the world as Sojourner Truth. While her latter life screamed triumph, the tragedies of her past served as a constant reminder of what could have been a great defeat. However, she was determined to live a just ...
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Confucianism & DaoismCONFUCIANISM & DAOISM
ESSAY 1 (ASTD-150)
During ancient China, it was mainly based on two types of traditional philosophies, Confucianism and Daoism. The religions and philosophies existed far before Buddhism which started to become known in China after the 1st AD, and then it became a ...
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Letter to BirminghamAll for Equality
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a peaceful protest against segregation. In his letter to clergymen, King conveys his resolution in changing segregation laws by using a series of rhetorical strategies, such as ethos, pathos, and logos to strengthen his ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird1.Setting
Maycomb, despite its civic importance as the county seat, is a small and stagnant town. It’s a place where time seems to stand still.
A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, ...
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Plato's ExistencePlato covers all aspects of existence. His theory of reality was a reaction to his predecessors Protagorus and Hericlitus. Protagorus thoughts expanded to thought and morality. All aspects of things are relative to the individual or a given country or society. Plato objects because it ends all talk ...
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The Image of the Divine Entity in Modern PoetryIt is in our very own nature as human beings to inquire as to the existence of beings superior to us, if not utterly perfect, then at the very least endowed with far greater qualities than us.
To begin with, in order to portray the previously mentioned facts, two modern poems have been chosen, ...
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Marie de France’s Lai, LanvalMarie de France seems to have been one of the earliest figures of feminist thinking. Within a period of conventional particularity marked by a traditional and unique literature, her writings stood out vigorously. It may be logical to think that this sparkle was the simple outcome of her sex but it ...
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Vietnam Protest MovementWhen the Vietnam War started only a small percentage of the American population opposed the war. Those who initially objected to the involvement in Vietnam fell into three broad categories: people with left-wing political opinions who wanted an NLF victory; pacifists who opposed all wars; and ...
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Feminism In DublinersJames Joyce’s book of short stories entitled Dubliners examines feminism and the role of women in Irish society. The author is ahead of his time by bringing women to the forefront of his stories and using them to show major roles and flaws in Irish society, specifically in “Eveline” and “The ...
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