Morality in the Ancient Mesopotamian Saga of Gilgamesh as Translated by David Ferry) "Who is the mortal that can live forever? The Life of man is short. Only the gods can live forever. Therefore put on new clothes, a clean robe and a cloak tied with Continue Reading...
Institutions can be utilitarian, normative, or coercive ("Formal Organization Structure: Utilitarian, Normative & Coercive," n.d.). Coercive institutions are relatively easy to identify in that they have strict rules of membership and maintain ti Continue Reading...
Primordialism Ethnicity is one of the more fluid concepts in sociology because one's ethnicity is largely defined by membership in a social group. The social group shares a common background, whether through experience or ancestry and they share cha Continue Reading...
Barstow, Marjorie. "Oedipus Rex as the Ideal Tragic Hero of Aristotle." The Classical Weekly, vol. 6, no. 1, 2-4, 1912. Print. Barstow observes one of Aristotle's fundamental points in her essay, which is that "Aristotle finds the end of human ende Continue Reading...
This meant that people were no longer creating mythos, but taking the myths that had been developed earlier, with the understanding that religious myths were meant to be symbolic, as truth, rather than defining their own religious truths. Armstrong Continue Reading...
Technologies which allow the integration of power stations underground and as such reduce the damaging effects of surface coal mining (Allied Publishers) Technologies which reduce the environmental damage associated with coal burning such as fluid Continue Reading...
With this information, people can make informed decisions regarding the water they consume. Which additives are healthful? Which are not? These are examples of only some of the questions responsible consumers should have when choosing their water. R Continue Reading...
Queer Identity and Why Its Oppression Results in the Maitenance of Heteronormative Power Structures Ancient beliefs about human sexuality and hetero-normative power structure have transgressed ages and some of them are unfortunately still negatively Continue Reading...
Today's world has greatly expanded and the challenges and provocations that humanity faces are great. Starting with political and economical challenges, and continuing with social and informational challenges, these are all more vast and complex tha Continue Reading...
S. Law." Stem Cells at the National Academies. 2008. March 27, 2008. http://dels.nas.edu/bls/stemcells/ethics.shtml Thomson, James a., et al. "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells." Science Express. Vol. 318. no. 5858 Continue Reading...
The growing need for interdisciplinary education in the sciences has been recognized, as well, since students have often limited themselves to a specialized field without gaining the required skill sets to undertake broader issues. As the world bec Continue Reading...
If anything else, most animals on this planet have evolved thousands or millions of years before human beings. They are the inheritors of this planet as much as any human being. The principle of Ethology and anthropology have shown us that animals a Continue Reading...
Nietzsche would easily note that in the decades since he wrote the Genealogy of Morals, moral codes have continued to evolve, propelled particularly by the will to power. The theme of resentment can be easily witnessed in the rabid state of internat Continue Reading...
Further, Diamond's argument that agriculture inherently provides less nutrition is less valid today, when a greater variety of food choices are available. While he is correct in noting that there are global disparities in health in today's agricult Continue Reading...
old, my parents and I moved from the sprawling, suburban township of Hudson, Ohio to the village at its center, and I fell in love with small, walkable cities and towns that are built on grids. I believe that such environments promote socialization Continue Reading...
Changing Family Part I The salient features of the social problem of the changing family are these: the traditional family unit has changed drastically over the past century in the U.S. At the turn of the 20th century, two parent households were stil Continue Reading...
Freud and the existentialists are too pessimistic about human nature? Are humanistic psychologists closer to the truth, or too optimistic? According to Freud, all desire is a form of displacement. First, the young boy desires his mother. However, u Continue Reading...
Labeling Theory Criminality is an unfortunate but inevitable component of human society. As much as people would like to believe that there is a way to create a type of community that has no crime, psychologists and other experts in the field of cri Continue Reading...
S. inhabitants would be vaccinated and thus the spread of influenza mitigated. In regards to flu transmission, the virus can be transferred in numerous ways. First according to the CDC, influenza a is found in many different animal products. These p Continue Reading...
Desire to Attend MIT Why I Desire To Attend MIT "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are" (Reagon, 2010, ¶ 1). Challenges in life have helped me not only discover who I am, as the Continue Reading...
Narrative Analysis Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees and Angela Carter's "The Company of Bees" both feature adolescent female protagonists who escape from a patriarchal world of poverty, abuse and oppression, although the young women end Continue Reading...
Overall, Foucault uses a blend of historical analysis and philosophy as his primary method to answer questions about modern societies. The primary evidence Foucault uses to justify his comments about human society is how sexuality was viewed in cla Continue Reading...
The Italian cities prospered from the transport of Crusaders. Trade passed through Italian hands to Western Europe at a large profit that created a commercial power, which served as the economic base for the Italian Renaissance (History World Int., Continue Reading...
" Too, if language affects place, and place affects language, the one cannot escape Cather's great admiration for the complexities of nature. The future, Cather's Alexandra knows, is with the land, with seeing the complex interaction (what we would c Continue Reading...
Wakefield's daughter becomes a powerful character in the film because she proves to her father that the war on drugs fails to address the root cause of addiction. Traffic therefore addresses several separate but interrelated issues: addiction, orga Continue Reading...
Environmental Philosophy The first Grays arrived in 2010, but they did not come en masse until a century later. The initial group of twenty brought with them a plethora of testing equipment from their home planet and took with them a total of two th Continue Reading...
com). Pricilla Dean, despite her odd and some might say crooked features and curvy figure, had an interesting though brief career offering audiences a unique and fierce performance in Outside the Law in 1920 (Stanford.edu, 2011). It's rare nowadays Continue Reading...
Karl Marx is one of the most interesting philosophers of the 19th century, and his teaching have contributed immensely to the discussion of political organization for the past 150 years. The social conditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth cen Continue Reading...
Political Economy of Global Environmental Problems: With the increasing globalization measures, there are various environmental problems that have continued to affect the entire world. These global environmental problems have affected almost every s Continue Reading...
One of the most striking parallels between society in Malachi's time and today's world is expressed in Chapter 3, verse 15: "now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape." The arrogant am Continue Reading...
Mudra did not act according to this principle when he ignored the warning signs of Daniel's condition. The best course of action would therefore have been a focus on beneficence/non-maleficence rather than upon respect for autonomy. Daniel's age is Continue Reading...
There are further characterizations of God's perfection as a deity, and these include: (1) infinity; (2) unity; (3) simple; and (4) divine. These characteristics, identified by Toner, are evidences that show how monotheism as an idea differs from du Continue Reading...
It is this activation of the sleeping animal life-force, and its conjugation with the higher human intellect which idealizes aspects of life, which gives passion its unique power and generativity. It is vital to clarify this core essence by compari Continue Reading...
Generation Transmission of Culture There are a number of ways that a culture may be transmitted to the next generation such as influences from family and parents, religion, and community. This works intends to explore the generation transmission of Continue Reading...
Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dogmatism, Intolerance to Difference, and Magic Realism: A Critical Analysis of a Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez, well-known Colombian novelis Continue Reading...
role of Islam as a unifying force Perhaps more than any other religion in the world, Islam has put to work its less obvious sense in order to unify the peoples sharing the same belief. Through its art, its common language and its judicial system th Continue Reading...
Security and Co-Operation in Europe The topics before the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) are: Combating Human Trafficking; Supporting Post-Conflict Stabilization and Institution- Building in Kyrgyzstan; and Energy Suppl Continue Reading...
Motivations for Pursuing a Career in Medicine It is in my opinion that people strive and compensate for what they perceive they do not have: one tries to gain strength to overcome his or her weakness. My motivations for pursuing a career in medicin Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies Author and speaker Brian Tracy says that people do not make decisions rationally, or logically. He believes that individuals make decisions emotionally, and then only seek to justify them on a rational, logica Continue Reading...
Dadaism During WWI, two artists, the German Hugo Ball and his future wife, Emmy Hennings, emigrated from Munich, Germany, to Zurich, Switzerland. Here, they opened Cabaret Voltaire in February 1916, in Spiegelgasse, 1, in Zurich. Other immigrant art Continue Reading...
