All societies have certain flaws. These flaws are present in all forms of government, and some of them seem to have no definite solution. A problem or flaw that arises when talking about social philosophy or forms of society is the problem of distributive justice. In discussing this problem many solutions or standards have been pre...
Firms are in business for a simple reason: To make money. Traditional economic theory suggests that firms make their decisions on supply and output on the basis of profit maximisation. However many Economists and managerial Scientists in our days question that the sole aim of a firm is the maximisation of profits. The most serious critique on the...
Aging comes naturally and people should not be frighten be it. As it turns out the fear of this process is enough to speed it up. The negative attitude is a very powerful factor in this process and has a great effect on the physical aspect of aging. It is enough to put people into deep depression or lose their confidence with many other thing...
Snoring: Annoying or Dangerous Throughout the entire world a person's habits have thoroughly irritated another's. These habits are may annoy one person more than another, or not annoy another altoget-her. With such a highly varied and intensely personal list of annoying habits available, it appears difficult to choose the worst. However,...
The NSX first made in 1991 was the first real Japanese challenger to the favorable European sports cars such as Ferraris. The best part about the car is that it possesses a unique combination of race-car engineering, performance, and looks, coupled with the refinement and practicality of a luxury coupe. This car can go from 0-60mph in 5.8 seconds...
... neglected ? ?Child?: means a boy or a girl apparently or effectively aged less than eighteen years? (Van Stolk 146). ?Rich kids, middle-class kids, poor kids - all deal with risk and neglect on a scale unimagined in previous generations? (Hewitt 11). There are problems of poverty, absentee parents, divorce, violence and drugs, plus much...
The Importance of Equal Amounts of Solitude in a Relationship Solitude in a relationship in equal amounts is an important factor in making a good marriage. Any good relationship must have a certain degree of independence on both sides. If one person believes that the other person must be around for a decision to be made or if one person believes...
History of Police Corruption in the United States The challenges facing the Chicago Police Department today are not new, nor are they unique to this city. The problem reaches back as far as the establishment of the first organized police forces in the United States. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to plague the police depart...
A Critical Look At The Foster Care System THE GROUP HOMES OVERVIEW Children entering the shadowy world of foster care are often assigned labels arbitrarily and on a bed-available basis. They may end up spending some time in conventional foster homes, only to find themselves shuffled through group homes, residential treatment facilit...
Lafollettes-licensing of paren ?Licensing Parents? Hugh LaFollete Would the licensing of parents be morally right and theoretically possible? According to Hugh LaFollette in his essay ?Licensing Parents,? it is and would be both right and possible to do so. I will attempt to argue LaFollette's point by using the different scenarios and an...
Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truth of the universe lies beyond the knowledge obtained from the senses, a knowledge that transcendentalists regard as the mere appearance of things (Adventures 162). Transcendentalists believe the mind is where ideas are formed. The transcendentalist ideas of God, man, and the universe were not all or...
TO BLAME? To complement the full apprehension of the terms which will be used throughout this argument, a number of meanings taken from The Lexicon Webster Dictionary is provided: GHOST The soul or spirit of a dead person. A disembodied spirit. HALLUCINATION (psy) an apparent perception, as by sight or hearing, for which there is no real external...
In the United States today people from all corners of the earth come together to form a melting pot. It can be described as a mesh of diversity which melds together to form a unique nation. The uniqueness of this country can best be attributed to by the contributions made by each of the different cultures that call it home. While many of these...
As a theologian and philosopher, Saint Anselm strove to prove the existence of God in reality. The bulk of his argument is found in Chapter II of Proslogium. Anselm begins by defining God as ?a being than which nothing greater can be conceived?. He continues by stating that ?even a fool? has the capacity to understand this definition of God and...