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The Common Myths About Kabbalah, a School of Thought in Judaism (1479 words, 5 pages)

The modern day Judaic schools of thought have, for the most part, shied away from the mysticism of the kabbalah teachings. Kaballah is the Judaic mystic school of thought that focuses on the ideas that are mostly left out from the Tanakh and Talmud such as dybbuks or golems or ... Read More

The Goals of the Early Socialists and the Illustration of Socialist Thought by Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Proudhon (321 words, 1 pages)

Early socialists questioned the structure and values of the existing capitalist organization of society. Many were called utopian socialists because their ideas were often focused on the creation of ideal societies without economic or social inequality. Other common ideas that characterized early socialists were their views on sexuality and family, ... Read More

The Conventional Thought Process in the Acts of Ryan Moats and Robert Powell (742 words, 3 pages)

Having read the story about the Football Player taking his wife to see her mother in the hospital knowing she has only minutes to live, I began to wonder how I myself would have acted if such an event happened to me. I believe that the Football Player, Ryan Moats, ... Read More

The Effects of Human Science and the Arts on a Person’s Ideas by Shared Thoughts Among a Group of People in Society (1419 words, 4 pages)

This essay will reference the two areas of knowledge, the human science and the arts to discuss how it affects a person thought or ideas are influence by the shared thoughts among a group of people. A person surrounding molds individuals behavior and what people around them consider fitting or ... Read More

An Argument Against Berkeley’s Thoughts on the Senses and Perceptible Qualities (1779 words, 7 pages)

In this paper, I argue that Berkeley does not give imagination without prior perception or sense enough acknowledgement. First, I succinctly examine his thoughts on the senses and perceptible qualities and how those senses interact with our minds. Next, I consider ideas that cannot be sensedseen, touched, heard, smelled, tasted, ... Read More

The Portrayal of What It Means to be A “True Woman” in Maria Ruiz de Burton’s Novel Who Would Have Thought It? (1373 words, 5 pages)

The True WomanGiven the wide array of female personalities in Ruiz-De Burtons Who Would Have Thought It?, the novel satirizes the notion of the embodiment of the true woman during the period before, during, and in the aftermath of the Civil War. The three women Ruiz-De Burton focuses primarilyMrs. Norval, ... Read More

The Life, Ideas, and Thoughts of Plato and Sigmund Freud (1836 words, 6 pages)

Little has been known in regard to Plato's childhood as well as hiseducation owing to limited accounts. Plato is known to have his roots fromone of the wealthiest and politically active background in Athens. Ancientsources have it that he was bright though modest boy who performed in hisacademics through contribution ... Read More

The removal of Delusion within Human Thought in Addressing the Natural Sciences in the Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason, a Book by Immanuel Kant (1461 words, 4 pages)

Immanuel Kant had a keen awareness of the schism separating the capacity of human beings to perceive the world around them and truly know about things in the world. Despite how unsettling the truth may have appeared at the time, Kant viewed the removal of delusion within human thought as ... Read More

The Author’s Lost Cuban Identity During Early Childhood in Thoughts without Cigarettes, a Book by Oscar Hijuelos (780 words, 3 pages)

For this review, I read the first chapter of Oscar Hijuelos Thoughts Without Cigarettes, which deals with the author's lost Cuban identity during his early childhood. The book begins by describing Oscars early childhood and growing up on the upper West Side of Manhattan in the early 1950s. Both of ... Read More

Understanding Availability Heuristic and How It Influence Our Thoughts About Sharks (696 words, 2 pages)

Between 1990 and 2009, there were 15,011 bicycle fatalities in theUnited States. In the same time frame, only 14 people died in sharkattacks. Despite this fact, most people are far more afraid to be killed bya shark than to ride a bicycle. This can be explained simply due to thefact ... Read More

The Transformation of Advertisements with Social Structure of Thoughts and Philosophies (556 words, 2 pages)

In the 21st century, world is rapidly progressing in the field of technology and on the other side, the moral and ethical structure of the society is slowly degrading. Business units faced extreme criticism from section of people for their profit earning motives, hampering the welfare needs concurrent to the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theory and Applicability of the Argument Presented in The Survival Lottery, a Philosophical Thought Experiment by John Harris (931 words, 3 pages)

Argument Analysis Essay 1 The Survival LotteryIn The Survival Lottery by philosopher John Harris, Harris proposes an experiment called the survival lottery, in which individuals are assigned numbers and would be drawn out of a lottery when an organ donation is needed. The people would be killed to donate their ... Read More

The Trolley Dilemma: A Thought Experiment in Ethics (642 words, 2 pages)

The trolley dilemma gives you the option of partially being responsiblefor the deaths of a single person or a group of five people. A runawaytrain is headed toward five maintenance workers on the track. You caneither let the train hit and kill the five workers or you can divert thetrain ... Read More

My Support for the North and Thoughts on the Cruelty of Slavery (580 words, 2 pages)

North vs. South or Right vs. Wrong?The Civil War was fought between the Union of the North and the Confederation of the south. The North believed that the institution of slavery should be abolished while the south believed that the southern culture should be preserved. Apparently that culture included enslaving ... Read More

The Thoughts of Offred in the Passage in The Handmaid’s Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (816 words, 3 pages)

The Handmaids Tale CommentaryIn The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood depicts a dystopian society where the government not only exerts its power over peoples actions, but also attempts to regulate peoples thoughts. In Gilead, any form of defiance is putting ones life at risk. In this passage, Offred expresses her own ... Read More

My Thoughts on the Definition of Identity (671 words, 2 pages)

Identity is one of the many words that are challenging to define. It is an abstract idea and because of this, there can never be one singular definition that will be able to accurately express the true meaning behind the word. Identity means something vaguely different for every individual person. ... Read More

A Personal Review of Thoughts on a Quiet Night, a Poem by Li Po (849 words, 3 pages)

Thoughts on a Quiet NightI have selected Li Pos Thoughts on a Quiet Night as my favorite poem from An Invitation to Poetry (p. 150). I chose this poem because of its simplicity, its focus on a single objectthe moon in the sky, the subtle duality in the poem, and ... Read More

An Argument on Aristotle’s Thoughts on Contemplating the Cosmos (2694 words, 8 pages)

In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle argues that "prospering in lifeis about exercising our goodness, exercising our virtues" and that "itmakes sense for it be the exercising of our very best kind of virtue,which would have to be the virtue specific to the best part of us." Hegoes on to say ... Read More

Paul Tillich’s Thoughts on God and Being in Courage to Be (3416 words, 10 pages)

Paul Tillich was a man who some may regard as one of the most prominent philosophers and theologians of the twentieth century. His ideas primarily focus on Christian theology, and one of his most popular works, Courage to Be, talks about how God, nothingness, and humanity fit into categories of ... Read More

Philosophical Thought in Ishmael, a Novel by Daniel Quinn (311 words, 1 pages)

Ishmael not only identifies as one of the most thought provokingbooks I have read but does so in a fashion that was highly unexpected. Toexplore philosophical thought through the use of an unnamed narrator and atelepathic gorilla was as surprising as it was effective. Part of thesuccess of the novel ... Read More

My Thoughts on What It Means to Be a College Student (339 words, 1 pages)

What it Means to be a College StudentMost college students would agree that one of their biggest school-related goals is achieving good grades--or even simply passing their classes. Academic responsibility is one of the most important components of being a student. College provides infinite opportunities for growth, and it is ... Read More

A Reflection on Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life, a Book by Robert Fulghum (538 words, 2 pages)

Robert Fulghum opens his book, Maybe (Maybe Not) Second Thoughts from a Secret Life, with going back in time to an intellectual conversation he had once had with a rabbi on the summarization of human wisdom. The rabbi believes that the Hebrew term, timshel, meaning may summarizes human wisdom based ... Read More

An Analysis of a Motto from Robert Fulgham’s Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life (589 words, 2 pages)

Robert Fulghum has a thing with mottos. In another short article of his from his book, Maybe (Maybe Not) Second Thoughts from a Secret Life, Fulghum makes the argument once again of maybe, maybe not which is appropriate considering the books title. However, he makes the argument from a different ... Read More

The Thoughts of Peter Kropotkin on the Behavior of Primitive People in Mutual Aid: A New Factor of Evolution (366 words, 2 pages)

Kropotkins Thoughts on the Behavior of Primitive PeopleIn Mutual Aid A New Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin seems to be in support of the idea that humans are more inclined to work together in groups, rather than live a self-sufficient life of isolation. When speaking of the earliest groups of ... Read More

Comparing the Contrasting Views and Feelings Towards Nutrition in the Essays Escape from the Western Diet and Food as Thought (845 words, 3 pages)

The essays, Escape from the Western Diet by Michael Pollan, and Food as Thought Resisting the Moralization of Eating by Mary Maxfield could not be more contrasting essays. Pollan writes on his views and feelings towards nutrition, the Western Diet, and its repercussions. In response, Maxfield expresses her contrasting feelings ... Read More

A First-Person Point of View of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in David Adam’s Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought (1784 words, 7 pages)

Controlled by ThoughtsDavid Adams Man Who Couldnt Stop OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought provides a sweeping analysis of obsessive-compulsive disorder by not only exploring a multitude of cases, but also critiquing the way it is treated and perceived by the media. Speaking from experience, ... Read More

My Thoughts on Success and Achieving Satisfaction (550 words, 2 pages)

Success is a large area of discussion. It means so many different things to different people. The dictionary meaning of success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. I believe success is the feeling a person gets when they accomplish something they were striving for. Success could be felt ... Read More

The Critique of the Presocratic Thoughts on Medicine in Hippocrates’s Treatise On Ancient Medicine (507 words, 2 pages)

Ancient MedicineHippocrates criticizes Presocratic thoughts on medicine claiming that they are untestable and unverifiable however, his own postulate was no more or less provable than those who came before him and was based almost directly on Presocratic thoughts. In his treatise, On Ancient Medicine, Hippocrates stressed the importance of experience ... Read More

The Ban of Freedom of Thought and Intelligent Design in Schools (2132 words, 17 pages)

What if what we learn and know about everything is limited? Professors and teachers are strictly prohibited to teach approved lessons that the government has found acceptable for students to learn. Imagine an entire world out there with endless possibilities with paths that could take us anywhere we wanted, but ... Read More

My Thoughts on the Difficulties Connected with Transitioning from High School to College (871 words, 3 pages)

What you are feeling is normal.It took a while to get through my head that high school was finished. You wake up and realize it is fall. You arent going back to the hallways or classrooms you remember. You wont be greeted by familiar faces. You wont be texting the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013