Alcibiades as Dialectic Instrument in Platos Symposium
Alcibiades speech in praise of Socrates (221C-222C) reflects, through the reversal between Alcibiades and Socrates vis-à-vis the roles of the lover and the beloved, the dialectical method by which Socrates taught his students, and features the devices of metaphor and irony to demonstrate the rela....
Ancient Greece
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The Ancient Greek civilization was located on today’s Greek land, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded by mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the op....
Change of the U S Dollar
The Change of the US Dollar
Abstract
The US dollar is considered one of the most stable in the world. Many developing nations depend on it as the basis for their own currency. However, decreases in key indicators of consumer spending indicate that consum....
Consensus: Pro-Choice?
After the election of George W. Bush in 2004, the media was claiming that moral issues are what drove voters to choose presidential candidate George W. Bush over John Kerry. Among these issues was abortion, which was ranked as the most important issue among voters in the election by 21.8% of those p....
Crime in Canada and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
In the past three decades, a number of researchers have undertaken the comparison of American and Canadian crime rates. Among them, Lipset (1990) and Hagan (1991) have shown that violence was more frequent south of the border than in Canada. Using infra-national disaggregated crime rates, this artic....
Decorum Renaissance
The title of Renaissance scholar and historian John Hales 1993 book, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, is not only a reference to Jacob Burckhardts seminal tome on the Renaissance, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, it is in effect also a play on words. In his text, Hale....
Dramaturg
"It's an enormous asset to have somebody who can not only speak in
terms of history but also understands the form, who understands that any play written
or performed today is descended from a series of traditions of form and can
remind me as I am working that this form exists: 'Do you want ....
Embryonic Stem Cell Symposium Speech
Out of the 450 IVF clinics in the USA there is an estimated 400 000 left over embryos and only 2.8% of theses are being designated for stem cell research. That leaves approximately 389 000 embryos that have been frozen and stored for any where up to 10 years and they could have been used to help oth....
Ethical Behavior, a Myth of the Past or a Necessity for Future Development
Thesis Statement:
With the ever increasing pressures of life, philosophers, psychologists and intellectuals are striving to answer the question, Are ethics basically becoming a myth of the past? The question calls for stepping beyond the yes or no answers, to analyze and investigate the facto....
Feminism: Its Like Beating a Dead Horse
In recent decades, women have collectively begun to demonstrate dynamical persistence in voicing their opposition toward their constant dismissal as second-rate citizens. Vigorous protests and demonstrations later, women gained the right to work, the right to vote, and the right to be an equal count....
Global Communication
Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
Problem Solution: Global Communications
University of Phoenix
Foundations for Problem Based Learning/ MBA 500
Problem Solution: Global Communications
Global Communications is a telecommunications company th....
Human Mutilation
Human mutilation is the act of maiming or causing a physical injury on a person degrading the person's appearance.
This mutilation at times results in deaths of individuals who had not consented to the act. Different ethnic cultures carry
out various forms of mutilation as a rite of passage for....
Janaderiya Festival - Tourism in Saudi Arabia
Janaderiya Festival - Tourism in Saudi Arabia
Introduction to Janaderiya
The festivals National Heritage and Culture organized by the National Guard in Janaderiya historic occasion each year in the field of culture and an indication of the deep concern our leadership wise heritage, culture, trad....
Light Emitting Polymers
The definition of a light emitting polymer is an organic polymer that glows (emits photons) when excited by electricity. Light emitting polymers respond to an electrical current by giving off visible radiation and they can be made into thin films or sheets. Light emitting polymers can also be calle....
Person centered therapy
Unfortunately all too many of those who seek the help of counselor have spent much of their lives surrounded by people who, with devastating inappropriateness, have appointed themselves experts in the conduct of the other peoples lives. As a result, such clients are in despair at their inability ....
Plato's Philosophies
Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political
leadership and event....
Plato's The Symposium: Response Paper
Platos book The Symposium is an in depth analysis into the complex subject of love. As in any quest for knowledge in any subject, the journey is to find the objective truth of that subject. Plato makes his point in The Symposium that there is no definite answer to the objective truth of love. We s....
Platonic forms
Platonic forms
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. His earliest works are regarded as the most reliable of the ancient sou....
Pope Gregory I
Gregory the First reigned from 590-604 and was named the fourth Doctor of the Church in the early Middle Ages. Gregory the great served as Pope during a difficult time. Barbarians, specifically the Lombards, had invaded Italy and asked for a huge ransom payment to leave. Other difficulties included....
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Hypertension is a disease that affects millions of Americans each year. It is widely known by many and fully understood by few. By definition hypertension is an arterial blood disease in which chronic high blood pressure is the primary symptom.2
There are many different types of hypertension. T....
Report on the tourism impacts in Thailand
1. Introduction
This paper will identify and analyse the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of Thailand. Thailand occupies the western half of the Indochinese peninsula and the northern two-thirds of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. Its neighbours are Burma (Myanmar) on the n....
Riordan Gap Analysis
Generic Benchmarking: Riordan Manufacturing
Generic Benchmarking Riordan Manufacturing
This generic benchmark intends to discover the best practices of companies that have solved issues comparable to Riordan Manufacturings concerns. Normally, it is best to find solutions involving companie....
Symposium
This paper is structured by various subjects. Each speakers arguments, Platos use of myth and story, and Diotimas erotic ascent to knowledge of beauty are related to the overall narrative, authors purpose, and the historical reality of Hellenistic Athens.
The first man to make a speech at ....
The Worth of Organic Food
In contrast to high-tech, agribusiness methods, organic farming systems aim to raise crops and animals without recourse to artificial or chemical means, and to protect and improve soil fertility over time (Tudge 40). The value of organically grown food is not monetary but environmental as it c....
U.S involvement in Vietnam
U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
The Vietnam War was an armed struggle between the Communist military of North Vietnam and the Democratic government of South Vietnam. The conflict started between the two nations after French colonialism ended in Indochina. The United States became concerned about the e....
Why was Socrates found guilty? Was he fairly tried and condemned?
At the time of Socrates' trial in 399 BC, Athens was still badly shaken by it's unstable political and military past. The surrender at the Battle of Aegospotami marked the loss of the Peloponnesian war to Sparta, a long and hard fought war which waged from 432-404 BC. Earlier in 411 BC a group of di....
Wireless Technology
AbstractWireless technology can provide many benefits to computing including faster response to queries, reduced time spent on paperwork, increased online time for users, just-in-time and real time control, tighter communications between clients and hosts. Wireless Computing is governed by two gener....
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