… of private property. We have read two books, John Locke's "The second treatise on government" and Rousseau's "Discourse on inequality." Of the several topics touched upon in each book, many topics seem to deal with the same issues. One topic…

… highway speed limits be increased? Should we strike down every sign that the government posts and uses to regulate the speed limit on the thousands of highways around the country? Should we trust the driving ability of each and every person to…

… in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens...as the shades of the evening drew on...with the view of the melancholy House of Usher...” Pg. 234) With these words, Edgar Allan Poe begins one of his most famous works.…

… argument about The Bacchae as with many of his other works is whether Euripides propounds a revolutionary or a reactionary message about society. This outlook, however, is skirting an essential element of The Bacchae's theme. The moral-social values…

… culture? To what extent can it be changed? Culture, "the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behaviour" (Spradley, 1979, p. 5), provides people with a way of seeing the world. It categorizes, encodes, and other…

… excellent short story from the 1800’s. In this short story Hawthorne’s main character, Goodman Brown, goes out into the woods with the devil and is tempted by the devil each step of the way. In “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne uses characters who…

… across the country. From Kentucky to Oregon to Colorado, the notion of schools as safe havens has been shattered by the sound of gunfire. These acts are not limited to any geographic regions or family backgrounds, nor do they have a single catalyst.…

… Rocker, the relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves baseball team, told a reporter from Sports Illustrated magazine just how he felt about New York Mets fans. When asked if he would ever play for the New York Mets, Rocker told the reporter that he "would…

… comparing excerpts from Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and Wordsworth’s “Prospectus”, I found many similarities and some key differences. Pope’s lean toward the more structured and confined, and Wordsworth’s lean towards the informal and original.…

… a great deal of attention has been drawn to the global problem of child labour. Virtually everyone is guilty of participating in this abusive practice through the purchase of goods made in across the globe, usually in poor, developing nations. This…