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Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction The influence of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein on science fiction literature: 1 of 9
Throughout time man has attempted to rationalize and interpret the world. Climbing from realizations of self awareness to one's own mortality man grasped for an ideal form of reality. Through contemplation and meditative experience man discovered an ineffable force underlying all of reality and thus answering man's search fo... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Failure of the Oslo Accords: 1 of 4
Disenchantment with the Global Community, the Crisis of Legitimacy central to the failure of the Treaty of Versailles and the Oslo Accords Following the "war to end all wars"(referring both to the first world war and the cold war) a sense of optimism radiated from all as the conception of using war for material gain lost its... More..
Arts & Humanities > Middle Ages Overview: Age of Discovery: 1 of 4
In a time of discovery and turbulence, Plato and Aristotle emerged from decades of brutal wars and tyrannical oppression with paradigms of the just regime. Although the particulars of their models differentiate, the core of their thought strives towards virtue. Plato's idea of the Republic emerged from discourses on the natu... More..
Arts & Humanities > History (Other) The importance of history: 8 of 24
History is nothing more than an exertion of power. No history is objective. Each is written with inherent biases and motives. Through studying several versions of the same history you can learn a lot about a given culture or school of thought, but in the end you do not get an objective version of history. This will to manipu... More..
Food & Drink > Coffee The history of Starbucks: 4 of 12
Starbucks Corporation has grown to become an easily recognized and often overpopulated corporation around the world. The first Starbucks was opened in 1971 and was founded by an English teacher Jerry Baldwin, a history teacher Zev Siegel and a writer Gordon Bowker. Originally all the store sold were coffee beans and high end... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Thomas Hobbes' 17th c. political philosophy and modern propaganda: 1 of 3
Taking Hobbe's analysis of human nature we are intrinsically drawn towards a staunch materialist view of self interest. Hobbe's attempted to make an accurate prediction of human action by deriving our basic motivations. Using the newly developed inductive reasoning of the scientific method, Hobbes created a simple motive tha... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Has America has gone too far with anti-terrorism?: 31 of 71
What the United States experienced after 9/11 was a neutrotic response to trauma. Rather than being able to judge the situation with a clear mind most Americans became paranoid and afraid and looked for some source of protection to ease their fears. What proceeded the terrorist attack can only be described as bloodlust. Amer... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Africa Propaganda and genocide in 1994 Rwanda: 1 of 2
Unilateral Control of Media and Dehumanization: Propaganda's Role in State Violence and Atrocity: A Case Study of the Violence in Rwanda in 1994 With the technological advances in communication in the 20th century unprecedented levels of education have become possible, however; rather than pursue cooperative and egalitarian ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Horror, Mystery & Suspense Frankenstein and insanity: 1 of 2
"The romantic movement, in its essences, aimed at liberating human personality from the fetters of social convention and social morality... But egoistic passions, when once let loose are not easily brought again into subjection to the needs of society. Christianity had succeeded, to some extent, in taming the Ego, but econom... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Explaining the IMF: 1 of 2
The IMF is part of the larger group of the Bretton Woods institutions. These include also the World Bank and the Word Trade Organization. These three institutions have been linked to the Washington Consensus or the policy preferences of the United States as many of these organizations are heavily controlled by the United Sta... More..