Essays Tagged: "poses"

Symbolism in Camus' The Plague

serve as an excellent reflection on an unpopular view oflife, living, and death. Life without a god poses many ironies; Camus attempts to satisfythose ironies.By using many examples of symbolism, Camu ...

(1 pages) 97 1 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

An Analysis of the Opening of Canto XXVIII

this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader:Who, even with untrammeled words and manyattempts at telling, ever co ...

(6 pages) 100 0 4.2 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

ABORTION

United States. Itdiscusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together.Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces manyindividuals to create a emotional and viole ... A pro-lifer would hold that from the moment of conception, theembryo or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a moral obligation topreserve it and that abortion is tantamount to murder (Kolner 5).In ...

(5 pages) 294 0 4.2 Jan/1996

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

The Gospels

ng promised Messiah, Israel's King and the world's Savior. As portraits they present four different poses of one unique personality. Matthew by the Holy Spirit presents Christ as King, Mark as Servant ...

(2 pages) 159 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The Threat of Nuclear Smuggling

of NuclearSmugglingThis reading was based on the controversy over thethreat that nuclear smuggling poses. It begins by goingover the view of each side in a brief manner. It statesthat some analysts d ...

(2 pages) 131 2 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

OZONE DEPLETION

receive attention. Over the last three decades, there has been a growing recognition that pollution poses a serious threat to human population and global ecosystems. One realization is that the ozone ...

(12 pages) 331 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

AIDS

- -The HIV virus poses one of the biggest viral threats to human society today. It is contracted through bodily fluid ...

(3 pages) 47 0 1.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Justice Pays. Analysis of Plato's Republic and the concept of justice

others but it must be wholly good. Thus a drink cannot be truly good if evil results from it. This poses an interesting question for Plato's readers namely, since no one wants bad things to happen to ...

(7 pages) 276 0 2.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

"Old Man By the Sea" by Hemingway

d throughout the novel to symbolize the old man and his struggle to catch the big fish, yet also he poses as a role model for Santiago (the old man). The old man is using the great DiMaggio for a role ... is most definitely a symbol of the old man himself, and his struggle to catch a fish. Also DiMaggio poses as a role model for the old man. Within this paper there were great facts from the novel to pr ...

(3 pages) 130 1 3.0 Dec/1996

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

The "Information Superhighway" provides educational and economical benefits, but also poses a threat to teachers and students.

The "Information Superhighway" provides educational and economical benefits, but also poses a threat to teachers and students. One of the many report's written by the United States Counc ...

(3 pages) 70 0 3.8 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Beverly Tatum's "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" report on racism

ok "Is there still racism?"(page3) started me thinking as to what racism truly meant. When a person poses this question or when they state that they are color-blind, you have to question if they even ...

(3 pages) 92 1 4.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Landfills

I'm in a bind... He's a really cool guy...Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater Poses a Serious Health ThreatNitrates contamination of the world's underground water supply poses as ... ormation or to request an Amnesty Day, call yourlocal public works department.Nitrate contamination poses a serious health threat to all of us.Each of us uses a little more than 50 gallons of fresh wa ...

(6 pages) 74 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Genetic Engineering: The Final Frontier

s the boundless potential to improve our lives and must be allowed to progress despite the risks it poses and the public outcry against it.It is true that we are just on the brink of discovering all o ...

(4 pages) 88 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Colorado Newspaper Evaluation of Federal vs. State Government

bit bi-lingual schools). On September 2, an Erie resident wrote about the dangers that Amendment 31 poses to the United States. Personally, regardless of political reasons the American government has ...

(3 pages) 95 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?

ondition. Because of this, a fatalist can be considered a type of determinist. This way of thinking poses a threat on what we call free will. If our actions are bound to past conditions, then our 'fre ... ot find anywhere in this book "?various things that did not and will not happen," (Taylor 63). This poses a threat to our individual freedom. If our destinies are already mapped out somewhere in the c ...

(6 pages) 351 0 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Women in Advertisements

ced breasts, and incredibly thick tresses. These women are then illustrated in sexually provocative poses for the purpose of selling something as ordinary as shoes. They are also shown scantily dresse ...

(7 pages) 203 0 4.7 Dec/2002

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

Silk Screen

asks in a low lazy voice.What kind of a life has Sally lived, in the small shelter at the mill that poses for a home. How can anybody stand the cold and dark nights? I've got to do something. I can't ...

(6 pages) 33 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Divided We Govern David R. Mayhew's ideas along with other research. Divided vs. United

es more of a "watch dog," scrutinizing every decision and action coming from the Oval Office.Mayhew poses five questions that probe the issue of divided party control of government. First, he question ...

(2 pages) 113 1 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Consciousness, Free Will, and Purpose in Human Life

or John Searle discusses the ability of humans to provide their own consciousness and free will. He poses the question, "Why exactly is there no room for the freedom of the will on the contemporary sc ... ated in ways that do not always run parallel to our accepted contemporary physical laws.Searle also poses the question, "What is it about our experience that makes it impossible for us to abandon the ...

(4 pages) 227 0 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

"Cultural Segregation via Human Nature" The essay centers around our need for stability and why it hinders humanity from achieving cultural harmony. (4 pages double spaced)

"Cultural Segregation via Human Nature"Dean Barnlund poses the questions: "Will a global village be a mere collection or a true community of men? Will it ... eves in and the way one perceives the world is a large aspect of emotional stability. Anything that poses a problem or makes one question his or her ways presents turbulence. Barnlund corroborates tha ...

(4 pages) 105 0 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community