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Marx and the Human Condition, 2006.
A look at Karl Marx's ideas on the human condition.
996 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of Marxist philosophy. Specifically, the paper discusses how and why Karl Marx enlightens us on the human condition. According to the paper, Marx had definitive ideas on the human condition, and he wrote about them consistently as one of his more compelling themes.
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"In the human condition Marx sees, there is no room for private property, everything should benefit the whole. He feels private property creates a "political economy" full of greed and corruption, and that the human condition is miserable in these conditions. With his feelings on labor and capitalism, he sees the human condition as an animalistic condition filled with hard work, despair, and little hope. Only equality through Communism and a renouncing of possessions can change this hopeless human condition according to Marx. This condition also alienates the natural world and removes any true purpose from life. Marx feels society is drowning because of this hopelessness and lack of equality. Smith, on the other hand, feels society can feel and give to its less successful members. He writes, "That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others is a matter of fact too obvious to require an instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature; is by no means confined to the virtuous and humane" (Smith 65). Thus, Smith sees a far different world than Marx, and a far different division of labor. Briefly, Smith sees hope while Marx sees hopelessness in the human condition. He knows that while people may never experience the actual suffering the poor and hopeless do, he will still empathize with the suffering as if it were his own."
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Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition", 2005.
An overview of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition"
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 85.95
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This paper presents a review of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition". The paper discusses the author's main themes, provides a summary of the work, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the collection of essays as a whole.
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"Throughout history human beings have attempted to produce theories of knowledge and learning. Some of the most basic questions such theories have attempted to answer concern what knowledge is, where knowledge comes from and how we know what is true. Plato theorized that only things that do not change, that are immutable can be known. Limitations of the human senses and perception have always played into theories on knowing. So too has human capacity for ration and more..."
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Poetry and The Human Condition, 2005.
This paper offers an in depth analysis and comparison of two poems, "So Easy So Hard" by Anthony Thwaite and "The Work of Our Hands" by Alistair Elliot.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper provides an in-depth analysis and comparison of two poems: "So Easy So Hard" by Anthony Thwaite and "The Work of Our Hands" by Alistair Elliot. The paper discusses the theme of the human condition in both poems.
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"The complex emotions and situations which one experiences in a lifetime are difficult to summarize in words at all, let alone in the short space that poetry proffers. However, as Anthony Thwaite and Alistair Elliot prove in their respective poems "So Easy So Hard" and "The Work of Our Hands" it is certainly a feat that can be accomplished with a fine attention to detail and nuance."
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"Frankenstein" and the Human Condition, 2002.
Examines the message put out by Mary Shelley, in her classic novel, "Frankenstein" that society is able to turn people from loving beings into wicked beings.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, £ 31.95
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Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" explores the meaning of human nature in a very profound way. She shows that human nature is to seek love and companionship, yet that society can turn people into very wicked people. At the same time, she stresses that human nature cannot be changed and that humans should not tinker with it or try to experiment with it. Mary Shelley touches on the theme of how dangerous it is to play with human nature. We see that humans are to be left alone and to be allowed to take their own way.
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The Human Condition, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the books, "The Great Work", by Thomas Berry, and "Sacred Energies", by Daniel Maguire.
832 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper examines how both "The Great Work" by Thomas Berry and "Sacred Energies" by Daniel Maguire suggest ways in which human beings can change the destructive path they are on. It looks at how the two works take a cosmological approach to the problem, the former focusing on the earth as sacred, while the latter uses religion as a possible remedy to the situation.
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"In Sacred Energies Maguire agrees with Berry in his assessment of the ecological situation: the earth finds itself in a crisis. Human beings have destroyed much of the earth's resources, and science is being used to remedy mistakes rather than to sustain what is left. Like Berry, Maguire assesses the culprit to be humanity's lack of spirituality. He however does not call for a divorce from major Western religions such as Christianity, but rather a rekindling of the best qualities of both Western and Eastern religions, to form a symbiosis within religions."
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Human Rights Violations in the U.S.A., 2004.
This paper discusses several cases of violations of human rights and of civil liberties in the U.S.A.
3,820 words (approx. 15.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 74.95
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This paper explains that the term "human rights" is clarified as a set of human behavioral patterns that are bound together in a legal document enunciating the manner in which one person must treat the other person. The author presents many cases, which demonstrate that some of the most common cases of human rights violations can be found in the prisons. The paper examines a document by China, which states, despite the position taken by the U.S.A. as a world leader in the issue of human rights, the U.S. has many violations and has actually accomplished nothing more than to distort severely the human rights conditions in several different countries by stating that they are neglecting the issue of granting human rights to its citizens when, in fact, it is U.S.A. that is actually doing this.
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"However, time has changed this; now African-Americans are considered a part of the soil of the United States, and they can cast their votes without fear of repercussions. They are also allowed, unlike as in the past, to occupy positions of high literary standing, at par with the 'whites'. The important 'Voting Rights Act' was passed in the year 1965, and this was one of the most important acts ever to defend the civil rights and liberties of an individual in the United States of America. The Act has been broadened over the years to accommodate various changes, and it facilitates the appointment of officials to ensure that the terms and conditions within are carried out to the letter. The VRA not only ensures that more voters cast their votes after registering, but also sees to it that people of African-American descent are also elected to office, a hitherto unheard of occurrence."
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Human Cloning: Ethical Issues, 2006.
An analysis of the religious and medical ethical issues concerning human cloning.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, £ 31.95
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This ethical study analyzes the current issues that involve both religion and medical science in relation to developments in human cloning. This medical issue is pertinent to ethics, since it involves a great deal of scientific questions as to how science is "playing God." This religious perspective is analyzed through Roman Catholic arguments against human cloning to better understand how this conflict is developing between both factions. In essence, this paper analyzes the two sides of the "playing God" issue in relation to the medical scientific advancements of human cloning. The first issue surrounding a social threat to human order in cloning is how cloning threatens a 'natural' order of birth in the human condition.
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Tragedy, Comedy and Human Nature, 2008.
This paper analyzes how human nature is reflected in the three theater genres of comedy, tragedy and drama.
1,401 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper discusses the three theater genres that reconstruct human experience: comedy, tragedy and drama. The paper first discusses the theater genre of tragedy using Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as an example and then describes the genre of comedy using Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as an illustration. The paper also discusses the origins of drama genre and points out how it differs from the tragedy genre. Furthermore, the paper then points out that despite notable difference in characters, plot, outcome and tone, these three genres all reflect human nature. The paper concludes that whether comical or tragic, the main function of the theater is to stir emotions by portraying the frailties of the human condition.
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"The theater can be considered as a reproduction of the fundamental conditions of human existence. The theater can be seen as a set of symbols reconstructing the conditio humana as a basic theater representation contains all the trials and tribulations of life. Acting can be deciphered as the attempt to assume a different identity. In this sense, the theater is a continuous creation and changing of identities. Irrespective of cultural and epochal differences, this has remained a constant as far as theatrical performance. There are three theater genres each reconstructing human experience: comedy, tragedy and drama. Nonetheless, despite notable difference in characters, plot, outcome, tone etc. these three genres have one thing in common, i.e. they reflect human nature."
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Human Nature Through the Eyes of Brooding Romantics, 2002.
Shows how 19th Century Romantic authors, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville depicted human nature through their works.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville speak to the modern age through the psychological insight they bring to their characters. The paper shows that these 19th Century Romantics wrote in an era before the science of psychology had been created, but they show the ability to develop ideas about the workings of the human mind and to express these through characters who are realistic in psychological terms even in the most fantastic of situations. The paper discusses their ability to show the contrast between the bizarre nature of the story and the psychological reality of the characters that says something to us about the human condition. Works discussed in the paper, among others, are "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Poe), "Young Goodman Brown" (Hawthorne) and "Billy Budd" (Melville).
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"In his short story "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne creates an image of innocence compromised in the face of the evil of the world, an evil that is always hidden and that masquerades at times as the height of probity. The way the story is presented leaves a question open as to whether Young Goodman Brown's experience was real or a vision. Hawthorne in this story does what he often does in his fiction -- he juxtaposes light and dark, good and evil, innocence and experience, and fashions a moral fable out of the interaction of opposites, doing so in a way that leaves issues unresolved and that hints at the moral struggle in the world without truly resolving it or issues it raises about human behavior."
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Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry, 2008.
This paper discusses effective human resource management in the airline industry, including employee recruitment, management and evaluation.
12,341 words (approx. 49.4 pages), 22 sources, APA, £ 169.95
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The world we live in is constantly faced with new challenges it must overcome in order to survive; and the business world is no exception. A wide array of changes have affected industrial activities and have forced companies to develop and more importantly, to become increasingly adaptable to all forces of micro and macro nature. A most relevant modification within the business sector is represented by the approach to the human resource. If only a few decades ago, the personnel were perceived as the force operating the machines, today, they represent the company's most valuable assets, its core competency and its means of achieving organizational goals. The management of the human resource currently constitutes a vital issue within corporations, moreover for the companies activating in the service field, where the quality of the interactions with the customers is crucial for the successful continual of the business activity. Airline companies place increased emphasis on the human resource strategies and policies and have integrated them in the company's values. This research paper presents the most relevant human resource management practices as revealed by numerous academicians and specialized economists. Furthermore, two airlines companies are discussed while presenting the means in which they understand, develop and implement human resource strategies and policies.
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Executive summary
1. Introduction
2. Human Resource Management Practices
2.1 Relevant Concepts of HRM
2.2 Planning and Recruiting
2.2.1 Recruiting the personnel
2.2.2 Sources of recruitment
2.3 Organizing the Human Resource
2.3.1 Job Design
2.3.2 Working Conditions
2.3.3 Flexible Schedules
2.4 Developing and Training the Human Resource
2.4.1 Training and Development
2.4.2 Motivating the Human Resource
2.5 Evaluating and Remunerating the Personnel
2.6 Employee Relations
2.6.1 Communications
2.6.2 Collective Bargaining
3. Human Resource Management within Airline Companies
3.1 HRM Particularities in Airline Companies
3.1.1 Globalization and Market Liberalization
3.1.2 Technological Developments
3.2 Measuring Job Satisfaction of Airline Passenger Service Staff
3.3 Airline Employees and Airline Disasters
3.4 The Human Resource at British Airways
3.5 The Human Resource at Air Canada
4. Conclusions and Recommendations
5. Reflections
6. References
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"The human resource strategies designed and implemented by the company's management are expected to retrieve two finalities. The company first expects to better satisfy the needs of its employees. Secondly, the management hopes that through the implementation of the HR practices and alternatively an increased job satisfaction, employees' performances will increase and this will generate a superior quality of the airline services offered by the organization.
"But in order to reach the desired status of increased market share, profits and increased interest from investors, due to a high quality of their services, managers must first measure the level of satisfaction of each employee. Ruth Taylor, the Academic Area Head for the Services and Tourism Management program at Curtin University, Western Australia, has long studied and analyzed the level of job satisfaction felt by airline employees as well as the measurements used by managements."
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Human Rights, 2005.
This paper discusses the concept of human rights, which has its origin in the moral philosophies of Aristotle and the Stoic philosophers.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper explains that the theory of human rights has broadened in concept over the centuries; its contemporary form includes securing for individuals the necessary economic, political and social conditions required to lead a minimally good life regardless of their caste, color, nationality, religion or gender. The author points out that, despite some objections raised mostly by people with vested interests to the doctrine of human rights, most people around the world are in agreement that human rights should not only be respected but also be promoted actively. The paper relates that frequent human rights violations are still taking place around the world, as witnessed in Darfur (Sudan) and Abu Gharib (Iraq).
Table of Contents
Historical Origins and Development
Three Generations of Human Rights and its Current Concept
Objections to Human Rights & Their Rebuttal
The Moral Relativists' Argument
Do Human Rights Intrude on State Sovereignty?
Religious Objections
What are the Consequences of Disregarding Human Rights?
Conclusion
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"The theory of human rights is based on the doctrine of "moral universalism" first put forward by Aristotle and Stoics. In "Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle presents his argument in support of the existence of "a natural moral order" and opines that such a "natural" order should be the basis for all truly rational systems of justice. This concept of moral universalism implies that morality is not dependant on social and historical conditions and applies to all human beings regardless of place and time, and forms the basis of human rights. Roman Stoic philosophers such as Cicero and Seneca, also supported 'moral universalism' and argued that all moral laws originated in the rational will of God and the authority of such moral law transcended all local legal codes. Christianity, which emerged later, maintained the belief of a universal moral code in the ensuing centuries."
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The Byronic Hero and Human Sympathy, 2006.
An examination of the complex personality of the hero in Lord Byron's literature.
2,162 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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The paper proposes that in order to understand and explain the link between the concept of the hero in Byron's work and human sympathy, one has to firstly examine the complex relationship between Byron's romantic ideals and the reality of the world in which he found himself. The paper further analyzes how the hero in Byron's work is the one who opposes the restraints and restrictions of society and even rejects his own conventional humanity in the search for something greater and better. The paper concludes that Byron's vision implies a deep sympathy and concern for the human condition.
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"In other words, the hero in Byron's work is the one who opposes the restraints and restrictions of society and even rejects his own conventional humanity in the search for something greater and better. At the same time we also sympathize with the suffering and tragedy of the hero figure struggling to attain meaning in a world in which he is an alienated figure. It is this alienation from society in Bryon that elicits the sympathetic response in our understanding of the hero."
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Treating the Human Soul in Crisis, 2002.
Examines Donald D. Denton's book, "Religious Diagnosis in a Secular Society: A Staff for the Journey".
1,454 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 34.95
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The paper describes how, in "Religious Diagnosis in a Secular Society: A Staff for the Journey", Donald D. Denton has succeeded in integrating two seemingly conflicting worlds of religion and psychology, which seek to tap into the human condition. The paper shows that with his three axes -- guilt, betrayal and defilement, Denton elevates humanity to a higher realm from the human to the spiritual level. In doing so, he captures the complexity of the problems that plague many individuals. Contrary to clinical professionals who restrict their diagnoses to what is scientifically identifiable, Denton admits that there are events and feelings that are not humanly fathomable.
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"Denton?s axes of religious diagnosis have certainly added a new dimension to the field of clinical psychology. While acknowledging the need to create a mutual language with the scientific community, Denton has also incorporated the essence of the human experience that is frequently ignored by his secular counterparts. From my experience and encounters, I know that human beings in crisis confront their relationship with God as they struggle to come to terms with tragedy and past events. While they feel that their faith may be challenged by terrible events, human beings ultimately reclaim and transform their existence by restoring their spiritual faith. Clinicians who can recognize this human need for spirituality will be most helpful to their clients in their journey to a better life."
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U.N. Human Rights Commission Implementation Flaws, 2002.
Discusses various problems connected with implementation frailties and exposes the consequences of such weak strategies.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 7 sources, £ 82.95
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Human Rights Commission was formed by the United Nations to monitor the activities of member states especially the ones with poor human rights conditions. But over the years, it has been noticed that United Nations has failed to exercise its influence on countries that have been blatantly violating provisions of human rights Charter. When we delve deeper into this issue, we learn that the real cause of this failure is inherent flaws in the implementation strategies. Not only has the organization failed to make its various operations more efficient, it is also been accused of granting membership without following proper screening procedures. The paper discusses these problems and others.
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