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Explain Plato’s Form of the Good Plato held the belief that the world we perceive is not real and that the ordinary things we see are mere imperfect copies of the true essence behind them. He posited that every material object and abstract idea, like beauty, has an ideal version that exists beyond the earthly…

Sherwood Anderson’s “I Want To Know Why”, tells the story of a 15-year-old boy from Beckersville, Kentucky who is fascinated with horse racing. In the beginning, the narrator and four of his friends do whatever they can to go to Saratoga to go see the horse races. He has an emotional attachment to the animals….

Theme: Core Ethical Theories The two ‘core’ ethical theories covered in class that I started to assess are the categorical imperative and utilitarianism, both of which offer an approach to decision making in the context of social and interpersonal relationships. In this with in depth understanding of both that Kantian ethics is much easily appreciated…

Conduct Disorder is a serious behavioral and emotional disorder that is common in children and teens. A child with this disorder normally demonstrates streaks of violent behavior and has a hard time being disciplined. The symptoms vary from aggressive behavior, destructive behavior, deceitful behavior, and violation of rules. Once a child shows signs of conduct…

The Scarlatti Tilt is a 34 words short story written by Richard Brautigan. This story tell us that a woman who lived in San Jose handed an empty revolver to police and told them living with a violinist was very hard. The gaps and silences in the story exhibit plenty of explanations and possible results….

Khaled Hosseini’s allegorical novel, The Kite Runner tells the story of the rise and downfall of the relationship of the main characters, Amir and Hassan, and inadvertently the rise and downfall of Afghanistan. More importantly, is how the main characters are symbolical to important Afghani figures, and how the main themes of this novel are…

When I was in high school, I used to always wonder why I made poor grades. Making poor grades made me feel bad, so I started to think of ways that I could do better in school. Getting poor grades comes from not doing one’s school work on time, failing to ask questions, and not…

Introduction.             The universal law is enshrouded by efforts to define and categorize deeds. The classification of these deeds depend on the underlying motives and the maxims which guide the. The universal law therefore seeks to give a direction on which of such deeds ought to be acceptable by the established social standards. The main…

The infamous question brought up in Augustine’s On the Free Choice of the Will consists in this: If God foreknows the future, and I will x in the future, then my will not free, since, in God’s mind, x has already happened. Something that is foreordained, in other words, cannot be the subject of free…

Many people of the society have been called abnormal. Do they mean that they are crazy or weird? How can a person be categorized as abnormal? The study of abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, or psychopathology, can be depended on the opinions of different cultures throughout the ages. Archaeologists have found human skulls from 3,000…