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Socrates and Protagoras on teaching virtue and kindness

Virtue can be taught, for as Protagoras asserts first and as Socrates assents at the end of the dialogue, virtue and knowledge are the same and so therefore, since knowledge is something that can be taught, virtue is too.

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Media's role in creating social and moral panic

Media can be described as any channel of communication. Its influence could be seen on our daily lives. People have different opinions, but actually no one can ignore its influence on our lives.

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California's marijuana legalization and community planning challenges

In the shifting views about the health effects of marijuana, there is a general trend for states to relax the rules around this substance across the nation. Some states have already lifted the ban against marijuana for recreational purposes.

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Defining music across cultures and Western bias

Even when musical traditions are deep, historical, and sophisticated, the methods used to analyze music do have Western components. Therefore, it may be important to consider different ways of analyzing musical features, concepts, and structures.

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Education and awareness as solutions to fake news proliferation

Thesis statement: Internet technologies enable the proliferation of fake news, and only education and awareness can curtail the influence fake news has on society.

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Hymnowitz and Bork on American moral decline: contrasting perspectives

Both Hymnowitz (2004) and Bork (1994) address this question, each taking a different stance on the subject.

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Women's objectification and sexuality in contemporary advertising

There are numerous examples of sexism in advertising: from Britney Spears’ advertisements for her perfume Curious, in which she strips down to her underwear for the camera, to Victoria’s Secret’s models like Chrissy Teigen undergoing both plastic surgery and photoshopping (because stripping down to…

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Revenge, murder, and deceit in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

If anyone was ever a master of gothic horror it was Poe. “The Cask of Amontillado” is one of Poe’s most famous short stories: brutal, quick, vengeful, and unabashedly horrific, the story represents all that is most terrifying and prideful about the human condition.

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Murray and Friedan on women's social inequality and unfulfilled potential

Murray lamented that women were not being taught to strive for greatness in the world in the same way men were taught to do. Friedan lamented that women were given an unrealistic image of fulfillment by television sitcoms and social expectations.

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Kant and Marquis de Sade: Comparing radical philosophy and morality

More Radical: Kant or Marquis de Sade? With the question of who is more radical, Kant or Sade, one must examine what the two are saying and advocating and the extent to which they are breaking with the past ideas and culture that came before them.

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