Essays Tagged: "survival"

Cogniton and Marxism

gnition states that cognition is a biological function of the human which is used as a tool for his survival.Marx defines truth in a pragmatic way. The truth value of a judgement is due to the usefuln ... ed are a natural result of his effort to survive.We do not have concepts that are not useful to our survival, or do not help us in our endeavors, though such concepts could easily fit in our intellect ...

(3 pages) 91 0 3.6 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Global Trade

and the exchange rate. Moreover, the competition and the economic are the most companies fight for survival. On the other hand, global trade could help a country be wealthier based on the foreign inv ...

(5 pages) 618 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

The Biology of Beauty

ists and psychoanalysts that stress the importance of beautyin human and animal breeding as well as survival. One such article The Biology of Beauty suggests this importance andbacks it up with many f ... k through physical barriers separates us from the animals, and even though we may not be as fit for survival as if we hadfull physical choices, the ability to choose not just on physical attributes ma ...

(3 pages) 113 1 4.3 Sep/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Analysis of "Scared to Death of Dying", Article by Herbert Hendin

t this is true in the story of the 30 year-old man that has leukemia. He had a 25 percent chance of survival if he was medically treated; if not he was given a few months to live. When told this, the ...

(2 pages) 65 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The lose of black culture

health, unemployment, education, and suicide problems were all created by our lack of understanding survival and the lack of proper information about our true African heritage. This can all be accredi ...

(4 pages) 148 0 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The text is about Sherman Alexie novel: The Lone ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven. It is a character analysis on how the Indian's in the Spokane reservation are at different phase of survial.

Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.--Sherman AlexieThe ... only weapon on the reservation.--Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in HeavenKey to SurvivalSherman Alexie's novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation ... e their hardships that mainstream society has put on them, with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie's Indians is, "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation s ...

(4 pages) 140 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The boss, a crutical analysis of Katherine Mansfield's The Fly

ow much is enough? At what point is a person tired of fighting? When will a person give up hope for survival? Such is the question that confronts the boss in Katherine Mansfields short story, 'The Fly ...

(4 pages) 111 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Arguement and debate regarding Indigenous Languages and their extinction

and there is no support for the teachings of native languagesDeidre d'Etremont, editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly stated in summer 2001 that languages are becoming extinct and there is no public ... g Voices: The extinction of the world's languages (Oxford University Press, 2000)). In the Cultural Survival Quarterly Summer 2001 they stated that local people must be empowered in order to preserve ...

(5 pages) 179 1 4.9 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Do We Have Souls, and can they survive after death?

is conclusion: unlike the problem of free will, the question of human beings having souls and their survival after the physical body is deceased, is not an easily argued topic. The problem of free wil ...

(7 pages) 147 0 4.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Software Piracy and it’s Effects

time and money in creating a Software and the company rely upon the sales of the Software for it's survival. If illegal copies are made of Software the companies earns no money and could therefore be ...

(4 pages) 146 1 2.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Possible Major. On Industrial Engineering Technology

areers, without such professionals businesses would be unable to produce products necessary for the survival of both the company and the economy. The industrial field is therefore a promising one beca ...

(4 pages) 104 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

How the main characters from "Crime and Punishment" Fyodor Dostoyevsky and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Cope differently to each of their own sufferings.

Survival trough suffering is a general theme running through the novels. Different forms of survival ... m. And he'd never make them work for nothing.' The team leader is an extremely important element in survival in the camps as a good team leader could possibly mean that the members of his team would g ...

(6 pages) 65 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London. Descriptive and defined points and quotes

h a harsh climate, draws us to the conclusion that the environment is the determining factor of his survival, as well as his dog's too. Anything that the man and his dog comes into contact with, creat ... result of his constant focus of the effect the environment has on the man not knowing the means of survival that the dog knows.Lured to the plot of the story, we keep on reading always anticipating t ...

(9 pages) 202 0 3.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Abortion Pro-life point of view

on is the induced termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival. Although that is the technical definition of abortion, not everyone agrees with this defin ...

(6 pages) 328 3 2.8 Sep/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

In the lord of the flies, Golding wanted to show his readers that there is no such thing as innocence, even in the young

tself in the argument they had who was going to keep the fire burning. Respecting orderand pursuing survival desires rather than pleasure was rejected by Jack. Humans follow their instinctswhen they h ... their instinctswhen they have no technology or the pleasures of today to help them establish their survival pattern.The lord of the flies (the pig's head on a stick) was the symbol of everyone's subc ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

This paper discusses the insights of The Prince by Machiavelli

planation of current political conditions can be viewed as the product of witnessing a struggle for survival among the competing city-states in Italy. Machiavelli not only lived at a time of turmoil w ...

(3 pages) 151 0 2.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

This essay is about my personnal theory that all humans live a co-dependant life.

same way. Maybe a life in diapers is how I'm meant to live. Maybe a life in diapers will insure my survival. As sad of a discovery this was, I've learned to accept that a life in diapers maybe isn't ... career. Once I do that, I will need to rely on my employer for a salary. This salary will insure my survival since without it I can't shelter myself, feed myself, clothe myself, I basically can't live ...

(3 pages) 47 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

How Close Is The Relationship Between Social Deprivation and Crime?

ute deprivation. Poverty is defined as the lack of some fixed level of material goods necessary for survival and minimal well-being. Areas that rank high on measures of deprivation, such as high unemp ...

(3 pages) 119 0 4.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"The Jade Peony"

explains in, "The Victim Theory," that in most instances of literature, the central theme is "bare survival in the face of 'hostile' elements"(Atwood, "The Victim Theory" 77) Hence, for the French Ca ... Victim Theory" 77) Hence, for the French Canadians after the English took over, "it became cultural survival, hanging on as people, retaining a religion and a language under an alien government"(Atwoo ...

(5 pages) 105 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Why is the U.S. really considering waging "pre-emptive" war on Iraq? Is it really the solution? Do you think that it is really terrorism that we are after?

nother, incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which, at one time, were necessary for survival. The propaganda of war as a means to peace is laughable. I'm sure that if you searched into ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues