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The Park, taken by the artist Yoshiyuki showing an act of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman reveals the act of love and sexuality during nights at secret places in the parks of big city Tokyo. The artist’s work is an indicative of sexual relationships in solitude as a dire need of a…

Marinade’s infamy is due in part to his leadership style – one he groomed and perfected at his previous tenure as head of General Electric – which has been described as ‘maniacal’, ‘exacting and tough-minded’, ND ‘autocratic and stubborn’ (Grow et al, 2007). It is the intent of this paper to explore business ethics as…

The Effects of the Purposed International Criminal CourtThe United States of America guarantees its citizens protection against punishment from foreign nations. As Americans, we are lucky in that the Constitution of this great state has a number of measures provided for its citizen’s safety. Being one of the most sovereign nations, meaning we are politically…

The concept of belonging is dealt with in the poems Migrant Hostel and 10 Mary Street through constant images throughout the poem created by Skrzynecki. The composer of the poems has decided to portray the way the family feels from when they are moved out of the hostel to when they actually have a home…

What is hyperreality and what does it mean? Why is Las Vegas postulated to be ‘hyperreal’? Furthermore why is it that so many people in the world want to visit Las Vegas, and people return back to Las Vegas year after year, even though we all believe the city, and everything within it, is superficial…

Friendship is some sort of excellence or virtue, and it is, moreover, most indispensable for life(Aristotle, 214).In his writing, Aristotle claims that without friendship it is merely impossible for one to live a complete and virtuous life. In this paper I will compare the virtues of the good person to those of the bad person….

            Humans are aggressive and violent by nature. There are people who are capable of committing serious acts of violence against their own kind. Since the beginning of civilizations, crime has remained an integral part of our society and will continue to plague it. In order to harness the violent nature of mankind, societies evolved…

“Shocks, Throes, and Convulsions””Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature–opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.” (Abraham Lincoln)1America in 1857 was “A Nation on the Brink”…

Introduction Epistemology is “the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity” (“Epistemology”, 2009). The Epistemological basis for the ‘theory of ideas’ is different between empiricism and rationalism. Empiricism claims that knowledge cannot be gained without experience; any other method that can generate ideas is…

Ordinary People  is the story of a dysfunctional familywho relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or preventanxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarrett, home after eight months in a psychiatrichospital,…