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A Discussion on Bauman’s Notion of Death as the Other of High Modernity (2594 words, 4 pages)

We humanise mortality by viewing it as a set of problems, we seek an enemy and kill it, we turn to projects that we can handle and there by attempt to give ourselves a sense of mastery over reality Bauman (1992) This essay will attempt to discus Baumans notion of ... Read More

The Notion of Justice in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (933 words, 2 pages)

by Hooman Keshavarz Hedayati Hooman667675yahoo.com Five hundred years ago when a group of hard working people, who mostly left their homeland because of injustices and in equanimity they experienced by the Church of England migrated to America to start a new life with justice and freedom of religion. This group ... Read More

An Argument Against the Notion That the Australian Youth is Apathetic (961 words, 2 pages)

If you believed everything that you read in the corporate media then you would think that all young people are apathetic and that Australian youth are the most apathetic in the world. This is what two recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald allege. "Young people nowadays are simply not ... Read More

An Argument in Favor of the Notion That Violence in Media Causes Youth Violence (1696 words, 3 pages)

The first-ever Surgeon General's report on youth violence was recently released by Dr. David Satcher, a Clinton appointee who still holds his position in the Bush Administration. The report hardly made a ripple in the public debate, but what caught my attention was the press reports regarding what wasn't in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Notion of Life on Other Planets (996 words, 2 pages)

Jesica Peratt 10 7-99 Do Green Martians Really Exist? Do you ever wonder if there is life on other planets? Im referring to little green bodies walking around with six eyes, two heads, and drool escalating from their mouths. As a child I use to lye in bed and imagine ... Read More

Exploring the Notion of Civil Disobedience (836 words, 1 pages)

The topic I have chosen to discuss is as follows Examine the assumption, made in the Crito, that "one should never do wrong in return, nor injure any person, whatever injury one has suffered at his hands" within the context of civil disobedience. I will show how civil disobedience must ... Read More

An Argument in Favor of the Notion That Violence on TV Makes Children Aggressive (866 words, 1 pages)

Extensive viewing of violent programs on television can lead to aggression in children. Children watch an average of three to four hours a televison a day. Television is a powerful influence in shaping behavior and developing value systems. It may lead to a gradual acceptance of violence, imitation of violence, ... Read More

Defining the Notions of Sex and Gender (498 words, 1 pages)

Sex and gender both classify an organism, but in different ways. Sex is what defines organisms as female or male on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions. Gender defines the sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture, of an organism. Whereas sex just looks primarily at ... Read More

An Argument Against the Notion That the Protestant Reformation Was Primarily an Economic Event (548 words, 1 pages)

The Protestant reformation was a time when Martin Luther, a theology teacher and concerned Catholic, began speaking out against the Church. His primary discrepancy was with the indulgences that they were selling. By speaking out against the Church Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Church. The German princes that gave ... Read More

A Description of a Notion of Dysfunctional Families (1004 words, 3 pages)

Dysfunctional Families The term "Dysfunctional Family" to me means (very basically) a family that is impaired in its functioning, but still operates as a family, with the inherent love underneath all the neuroses and abnormalities. Dysfunctional families seem to have become the norm I believe. Part of the reason for ... Read More

An Analysis of Fascinating Aspects of the Notion of the Supernatural (576 words, 1 pages)

Do I Believe In The Supernatural? As yet I do not truly believe in the supernatural, but I would like to. I do not have a religious background and have yet to experience anything personally that would convince me of its existence. On the other hand, I would like to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Notion of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (905 words, 2 pages)

Can Money Buy Love? What is the American Dream, and how can one obtain this dream? Obviously, every American will have a different dream and will have different obstacles in achieving their goal. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby desperately wants to reach his dream and will ... Read More

The Notion of a Clean Slate in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes (571 words, 1 pages)

The notion of a clean slate as a basis or starting point have been strong roots in philosophical thinking for decades. Some noted philosophers applying this notion to their thinking are none other than Descartes himself as well as John Locke, who's "Tabula Rasa" proposition is well known. It should ... Read More

The Origins of the Notion of Transcendentalism and Its Main Aspects (10855 words, 19 pages)

Transcendentalism A New Revelation Kurt Kawohl Copyright (C) 2002. Kurt Kawohl. All part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, which are now known or to be invented, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical. Kurt Kawohl ... Read More

An Examination of the Notions of Religion and Morality (1503 words, 2 pages)

Religion is defined as any specific system of belief or practice that constitutes a code of ethics and some sense of philosophy. This code of ethics, which is called religious morality, points out what is considered to be right and wrong for its followers. Individual morality is also based on ... Read More

An Argument against the Notion That William Shakespeare’s Othello Is All about Racism (771 words, 2 pages)

Othello isnt a play about racism as much as it is a play about jealosy, conflicting values, and the power of suggestion. Some racism is displayed within the play, but that is simply a reflection of how most minorities were treated in the time period when the population in Europe ... Read More

A Comparison of Neoliberalism and Ordoliberalism by Gandhis Notion (1607 words, 3 pages)

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest.- Mahatma Gandhi. In this paper, I will show the differences between two types of liberal thought, Neoliberalism and Ordoliberalism, that have attempted to achieve Gandhis notion. Merriam-Webster defines Neo-liberalism as a liberal ... Read More

The Notion of Moral Practice in the Film Alasdair Macintyre (752 words, 1 pages)

Jerry McGuire Nothing speaks to me more about this film than Alasdair MacIntyres notion of moral practice. In the text book Performance versus Results A Critique of Values in Contemporary Sport, there is a section entitled The Monsters of Emotivism. In this chapter, it is stated that emotivism is the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Greek Notions of in Groups and out Groups and How They Relate to Confucian Principle of Jen and the Hindu Caste System (520 words, 1 pages)

In-groups and Out groups In this essay I will discuss the Greek notions of in-groups and out groups and how they relate to confucian principle of Jen and the Hindu caste system. My understanding from the article titled The Contextual Foundations of Interpersonal Struggle, is the people of Greek descent ... Read More

A Society’s Corrupt Notion of the Christmas Spirit in a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (2936 words, 4 pages)

An audience member's gleeful first-hand account of Charles Dickens's public reading of "A Christmas Carol" unwittingly exposes an often overlooked contradiction in the story's climax "Finally, there is Scrooge, no longer a miser, but a human being, screaming at the 'conversational' boy in Sunday clothes, to buy him the prize ... Read More

A Semiotic Analysis of Gender Representation in a Nescafe Advertisement (746 words, 2 pages)

Semiotic analysis is useful for examining texts, to "unravel structures of meaning beyond mere presence or absence" (Van Zoonen 74). In this essay semiotics will be used to discuss ways that gender is represented in a Nescafe advertisement published in CLEO. The idea of first, second and third orders of ... Read More

Plato’s Notion of Justice in The Republic and The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates as a Just Person, and Socrates’s Comparison to Our Society (2413 words, 9 pages)

I. Introduction In reality for a long time past we have been talking of justice, and have failed to recognize her, claims Plato in The Republic (153). Plato, being the brilliant philosopher that he is deals with justice and its virtues day in and day out. He is constantly questioning ... Read More

The Notion of Liveliness in Television in The Concept of Live Television, an Article by Jane Feuer (819 words, 2 pages)

In the Article The Concept of Live Television Ontology as Ideology, Jane Feuer presents the idea of liveness in television. Television as an institution identifies all messages emanating from the apparatus as live. However in the technological advances, the meaning of live has greatly changed. Computerized editing equipment has made ... Read More

The Semiotics of Utopianism in European Vacation, a Comedy Film by Amy Heckerling (4603 words, 6 pages)

The Semiotics of Utopianism National Lampoons European Vacation(1985),though almost certainly produced as "pure entertainment" in Richard Dyers sense of the term, presents to the careful reader much more than simply ninety-five minutes of farce. Underlying nearly every scene and every characters motivations are cultural stereotypes and assumptions intended to go ... Read More

The Notion of Individuality Through the Character of Sammy in A&P, a Short Story by John Updike (858 words, 2 pages)

John Updike wrote many books and short stories. Many of his characters resembled people he knew or they reflected his views on what was going on in America (Interview 75-79). They expressed his views on the value system that people lived by. One of these ideas was individualism. Individualism has ... Read More

The Ridiculous Notion That Mark Twain was a Racist (825 words, 2 pages)

Controversial in death as he was in life, Mark Twain has been seriously accused by some of being a "racist writer," whose writing is offensive to black readers, perpetuates cheap slave-era stereotypes, and deserves no place on today's bookshelves. To those of us who have drunk gratefully of Twain's wisdom ... Read More

The Notion of Culture in the Main Characters in Alice Walker’s Everyday Use (421 words, 1 pages)

Culture is something picked up from one generation to next, not suddenly acquired. Making use of culture in everyday life shows a dedication and understanding to the culture. Maggie, the younger daughter, was an example that heritage passes from one generation to another through a learning and experience connection, while ... Read More

A List of Physical Notions (873 words, 3 pages)

-Attenuation a reduction in the intensity of a beam of x-radiation as it passes through a medium due to absorption or to scatteringor to both. -Absorption the transfer of energy from the x-ray beam to the medium through which it passes. -Scattering a change in the direction of a photon ... Read More

An Essay on Semiotics (986 words, 3 pages)

Semiotics is a theoretical approach to communication, it aims to establish widely applicable principals, it can be described as the study of signs. Semiotics involves the study of anything, which stands for something else in some respect or capacity. Signs can take the form of words, images, sounds, and objects. ... Read More

An Essay on Thomas Nagel’s and Carl Ginet’s Notion of Autonomy (1606 words, 3 pages)

Have you ever wondered if the decision that you have just made was the best possible decision for you to make? An agent's relationship between responsibility and his decisions in life are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013