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Alfie Kohn's critique of the grade inflation myth

Straight talking on straight as: Alfie Kohn's essay on "The dangerous myth of grade inflation" Straight talking on straight as: Alfie Kohn's essay on "The dangerous myth of grade inflation"

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The moral status of human embryos and the case against abortion

In the past few decades an argument has raged across America over the issue of abortion. My personal opinion on this subject is that abortion should not be legal.

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Rhetorical techniques in Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue"

As anyone who has ever been in an argument can tell you, what you say is often far less important than how you say it.

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A priori justification, rationalism, and continental philosophical tradition

As such, following an excellent essay on the item, a priori knowledge refers to a proposition that is "knowable independently of experience"

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Competing interpretations of Columbus in historical scholarship

Who was Columbus? This essay attempts to answer the question, "Who was Columbus?" through a comparative analysis of documents discussing the historical context in which Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the "New World" (or Americas) were analyzed.

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Defining inequality: philosophical approaches to justifying socioeconomic disparities

This report aims to provide a philosophical argument for the question -- can inequalities be justified if they are not in the interest of those who are (otherwise) worst off? From a philosophical perspective, this effort could look for statistics and then decipher an answer.

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Swift's use of satire and irony in "A Modest Proposal"

Descartes' Discourse Method (Part IV). Descartes begins problem prove existence ends argument proving existence God. Read Discourse Method located http://www.earlymoderntexts.

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James's pragmatism and Clifford's ethics of belief

William James' "The Will to Believe" was written in response to an essay on religious belief by William Kingdon Clifford.

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Montaigne's "Of Cannibals" and Barthes' death of the author

Cannibals" is especially interesting when considering its content in the context of Roland Barthes' essay "Death of the Author." The former's description of individuals in the New World and his tendency to portray these respective people as being completely different from Europeans is actually…

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Modular neural networks and the development of visual perception in infants

Modular neural networks. The argument for modular brain architecture is one that holds that the brain is bestowed with some finite characteristics from birth.

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