Essays Tagged: "wishful thinking"

Abortion

rn for the life of an individual human being?The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who would ...

(7 pages) 108 0 4.0 Mar/1996

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

Abortion , life or death , who chooses?

rn for the life of an individual human being?The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who would ...

(18 pages) 339 2 4.1 Dec/1996

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

The Argument from Design - Fact, Fantasy or Wishful Thinking?

The Argument from Design - Fact, Fantasy or Wishful Thinking ?Tell me why the stars do shine,Tell me why the ivy twines,Tell me why the sky's so ...

(17 pages) 399 2 4.7 Aug/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Dreams vs. Reality: The play "The Glass Menagerie" written by Thomas Lanier Williams, posses different aspects of how the Wingfields escape into their own little happy place.

e Wingfields escape into their own little happy place. The author expresses escapism in the form of wishful thinking, imaginary fantasies, and life in a home away from home.Several different people al ...

(3 pages) 93 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Optimism.

optimism is trying to make the best out of every situation. A pessimist might say that optimism is wishful thinking. Both views have some truth to it. What about pessimism? What does that mean? An op ... he bad things of something, you may not understand some things fully. I prefer to try not to be too wishful in my thinking and at the same time be realistic. However, sometimes when I think of somethi ...

(4 pages) 107 1 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Morality of Money.

k Times: "Enron's collapse was a product of the culture of greed, dishonesty, ethical blindness and wishful thinking that has characterized much of corporate America since the advent of the Reagan adm ...

(5 pages) 191 1 3.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Who Chooses?

ern for the life of anindividual human being?The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishfulthinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Thoseof us who would se ...

(16 pages) 87 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

"Belief is the natural attitude of a thwarted mind"

he solution, we have a tendency to believe in the solution out of pure frustration, or perhaps just wishful thinking. As in: "that has to be it!" A similar thing will happen when we are confronted wit ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Thesis: In the play, Macbeth by, William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth clearly is the "outside force" and cause of Duncan's murder by Macbeth.

In everyday life, thoughts pass through our mind. Wishful thinking is had. At night one might dream. One might dream about far off places, impossible ...

(3 pages) 55 1 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

She...

aded photographs and sees her smiling faceThe smile so radiant and so sweet,The innocent looks, the wishful thinking,The hopeful heart and the daydreaming.She remembered the days of pink dresses and y ...

(1 pages) 22 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

In the play, "Macbeth" by, William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth clearly is the "outside force" and cause of Duncan's murder by Macbeth.

In everyday life, thoughts pass through our mind. Wishful thinking is had. At night one might dream. One might dream about far off places, impossible ...

(3 pages) 58 0 4.4 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

"The Sun Also Rises": Compares and Contrasts Cohns relationships with other characters in the novel.

Love as Only Wishful ThinkingThroughout Ernest Hemingway's novel, "The Sun Also Rises", the theme of escaping rea ...

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Logic, Where?

data and his hypothesis for how the mind and body interact, if they are two distinct substances, is wishful thinking at best.In his sixth meditation, Rene Descartes gives reasoning for why he believes ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

John Donne's "The Sun Rising"

bliss, a passionate love, stimulates him to reinvent reality within the confines of his own mind, a wishful thinking from which he does not readily depart, much like a sleepy child clings to the conse ...

(2 pages) 40 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Brussels We Have a Problem: The Internal and External Communication Dilemma Facing the European Union

ed to say the least, clearing the way for the popular mind-set regarding a unified Europe as simply wishful thinking. In the most obvious sense, the European Union implies a merging of Member States u ...

(22 pages) 57 1 1.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Democratic Deficit: How Concerned Should the Citizens Be?

itutional Treaty demonstrated a change in the public sentiment regarding a unified Europe as simply wishful thinking. In the most obvious sense, the European Union implies a merging of Member States u ...

(21 pages) 88 0 4.6 Jun/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union

Dreams

fying behavior due to dreams. For example, in our everyday activities we use dreams to describe our wishful thinking, musical lyrics, advertisements, talk shows, and other images. We have DayDream Bel ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Life After Death

over and over again (Schouweiler 17). Some people say, "ideas like heaven or reincarnation are just wishful thinking because no one wants to die"� (Schouweiler 17). The belief in an afterlife h ...

(8 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Response to "Horatio Alger" of H. L. Dalton

t not only this idea is not true but is doing a harm to society because that equality is cover only wishful thinking and can not be true unless massive changes in society economic structure and reloca ...

(3 pages) 26 0 4.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Risks vs Planning

meone gives his best, he should succeed. However, we do not live in a perfect world so this kind of wishful thinking is impractical. Giving one’s all may not be enough for success, therefore one ...

(2 pages) 1157 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers