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… writes: Modern life-prolonging technologies have sharpened some ancient dilemmas on the value of life. Our ability to sustain vital signs virtually as long as we wish pointedly raises the question whether we value life for its electrical efflorescence…

… of a fellow marine in their platoon. Private First Class (PFC) William Santiago died because of lactic acidosis triggered by the assault inflicted by Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Lowden Downey. This assault was the result of a direct…

… calendars, on matchbox labels: the blue body smeared with ash, the third eye, the tiger-skin. Locked in the lotus posture he mediates in the mist and snow of Kailash; the moon rests on his hair and the Ganga spills from his tangled locks. Shiva is…

… are the cures for these maladies? Drawing on Montaigne's "Of Cannibals", the maladies of western civilization are embodied through the ostensibly simple minded noble savages. This can be explained via the era of Montaigne's writing. It was during…

… and Economy October 24, 1929 had an immense impact on the Canadian economy that spanned from coast to coast. "Black Tuesday", as it was known, was the seemingly overnight crash of the stock markets of New York, Toronto, Montreal and a vast array of…

… as Fox (1993) points out everything that we read or watch (in this case) constructs us, makes us who we are, by presenting an image of ourselves. Besides being an important development tool for children, children's books and films transmit a society's…

… because they need their peer's guidance for everything. All adolescents want to be like their peers because it is the peers that set the style and all children want to look good in their peer's eyes. The number one importance is communication.…

… everything that happens is pre-determined and inevitable, but this essay explains the simple and compelling reasons why it's true. These reasons are easy to understand. But for many intelligent and thoughtful people the idea is at first sight so obviousl…

… and beliefs about appropriate social behaviour, which have evolved to facilitate and improve social life. Most people feel that morality is somehow more than this. They think it's not merely something that's developed in response to human needs,…

… tried to find out what's real and true by discovering and stripping away what's mistaken and apparent. They've asked fundamental questions about reality, and have uncovered ambiguities and contradictions which have given rise to long-standing disagreemen…