Essays Tagged: "premise"
The Role of Prejudice in "The Merchant of Venice"
Merchant of Venice,believed to have been written in 1596 was an examination of hatred andgreed. The premise deals with the antagonistic relationship betweenShylock, a Jewish money-lender and Antonio, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Pressures of todays youth
must follow verbatim.'On Self-respect ' faces the every day pressures of adolescent life . The main premise of this essayis that you must respect yourself for anyone to respect you. Both essay's rely ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Is An Oppressive Government More Desireable than No Government?
dvantageous.Since the topic asks us to evaluate the most desirable situation for humanity, my Value Premise is Individual Welfare. In order to achieve individual welfare, my criteria are1)The preserva ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Teens and Ciggerette Smoking
cceptance among Americas Youngsters. However,cigarette smoking among adolescents is on the rise.The premise that the behavior of adolescents is influenced by the behavior of theirparents is central to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The Motionless Arrow, Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Paradox
ter, Aristotle interprets Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as 'missing the mark'. There are four premises for this argument, and in Aristotle's opinion, premise three can be rejected. He does not b ... ed of indivisible nows, which he proves with laws of science. However, by evaluating the falsity of premise three, you will find that premises one and two are also false. Almost all opinions can be ar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs. Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised Harm Principle"'
a chance. Their arguments range from the seeming ineffectiveness of current drug laws to the simple premise that the government has no right to prohibit its citizens from using drugs if they choose to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Confucius, Philosophy of Religion. About cinfusianism and christianity
The premise of Confucian teachings are centered around the idea of Jen or the "virtue of humanity (Ching ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
A Philosophy for all- an analysis of the Tao
hatever can be described of the Tao is not the true Tao, its author, Lao-tzu, establishes his first premise: the Tao is a force beyond human explanation. However this assumption does not mean that he ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Term "Paper on Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift's
ited Lilliput, Gulliver is faced with the minute people, called Lilliputians. Now while this is the premise for a fantasy story, Swift uses the events within to make severe criticisms of England betwe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Origin ofSpecies in 1859. It explained his theory of evolution. Darwin's theory was based in thepremise that humans evolved from the earliest primates. American Christians wereappalled by this boo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
H. Fuchs's essay - The American Way of Families
stable in one's own life isreally as 'cut and dry' as we would like to believe. In essence, the mainpremise of human existence is satisfying yourself; at every level down to yourbasic foundation. We f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Constitutional Democracy
- ExcellentCONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACYThe basic premise of a constitutional democracy is that government has rules and all of the people have voices ... which is not in controversy is the right to vote in free and fair elections. They are held with the premise that opposition will be loyal. The winning party will not interfere with the defeater's atte ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Discuss the importance of the 'mirror' in psychoanalytic terms with reference to Lacan's theory of the mirror stage and Angela Carter's short story 'Flesh and the Mirror'.
turalist theories, Lacan re-reads Freud turning psychoanalysis from an essentially humanist idea or premise into a post-structuralist one. Lacan rejected Freud's goal of strengthening the ego as it ca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
The Lexus and the Olive tree, by Thomas Firedman. A summary on the importance and unimportance of Globalization in the world along with examples and quotes.
l advancement and growth, where the Olive Tree refers to traditional roots and stability. The basic premise of the book is the conflict between the two within cultures, economies, and individuals and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Marketing research shapes consumer needs and wants versus marketing research merely reflects the needs and wants of consumers
Market research begins with premise that information plays a critical role in the success or failure of organizations. I believe ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Abortion and evolution
on that assumes life is only a process, rather than the result of a special moment of creation.This premise arose from a scientific idea that one could determine evolutionary history by studying the d ... y, and thus has no need or right to life because it is not fully human.A closer examination of this premise reveals scientific error, however. The "gill slits," or pharyngeal pouches, actually become ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Socrates-not perfect- I got a A- at UC Berkeley on it Essay on how Socrates arguments are contradictory and can be proven faulty. This essay proves a few of Socrates arguments faulty.
belief instead of the moral experts will "ruin" life and thus make it "not worth living". From this premise, I plan to show that Socrates argument is flawed as he leaves too many questions unanswered ... his belief relies much too heavily on assumption. In addition, Socrates argument relies on a false premise, my argument reads as follows:Socrates suggests that if there are moral "experts", we should ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Meditation three of Descartes
s paper I'll reconstruct Descartes argument and evaluate its validity based on the soundness of its premises. Descartes' proof for the existence of god is: 1.) I think, therefore I am. 2.) I can not b ... ssible formal cause of my idea of a perfect being is god, and I am not him.Therefore, God must existPremise numbers one and two, can not be doubted. Although really not discussed much in Meditation th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Racism in The Merchant of Venice
rchant of Venice, believed to have been written in 1596 was an examination of hatred and greed. The premise deals with the antagonistic relationship between Shylock, a Jewish money-lender and Antonio, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
No hopes for man? After a glance into "Ishmael", it seems like the world would function much better by the extinction of humankind.
t in order to gain complete control over it.Humans are destroying the earth simply by living by the premise "the world was meant for man and man was meant to conquer it." It all began with the birth o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science