However, despite the common starting points of their theories, their approaches to the question of property are quite differentiated. ... According to him, all men are born free and equal regardless of what generation they have been born into and, private property does not arise from consent to divide up original common property. ... Property in a narrower sense for Locke means the right to exclusive use of an object that no one else has previously claimed by mixing one's labor with an object in its natural state. ... It is argued therefore, that men enter to the society in order to eff...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the story was written in 1904 and that particular personnality disorder was only diagnosed in 1977, Cather's character embodies many of the symptoms listed by the doctors, such as: "highly developped sense of self importance, preoccupation with fantasies of success, belief that he is special, feeling he has the envy of peers, and arrogant behavior." (Benis, 303) But the main display of Paul's illness is his over-developped sense of self-importance; the way he feels that he is worth much more than the environment of Cordelia Street. A good example of that is when he comes ba...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marx views the value of commodities in this sense as analytically prior to money; money can be explained according to Marx only on the basis of an understanding of the value of commodities. ... In a society where exchange is common, products come to have a dual character as use values and as values. ... Value in this sense bears the same relation to commodities as mass bears to physical objects. ... The function of money as expressing labor time is common to all commodity- producing societies, but different arrangements perform this function in each society. ... Marx's General Equ...

• Word Count: 5092
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarking on a global scheme of Imperialism, fueled at least in part by a growing sense of Nationalism within the many countries of Europe. ... "Trenches, hospitals [or] the common grave,"" he argues, are the only remedies for this condition (Page 283). ... He loses all sense of security, and is left to fend for himself in a world of violence and death, which he has grown to know and cope with too well. ...

• Word Count: 1278
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through a combination of events, in particular the loss of his father at the height of a still unsatisfactorily resolved oedipus complex, anxiety became overwhelming. A regression took place, predominantly to an earlier, anal level of the organization of drives and drive-monitoring forces and struct...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism are the three main theoretical positions that have shaped and dominated our understanding of the international world. Out of the three theories, Marxism has had the least influential role. Nevertheless, it should not be disregarded because it has a continuing validit...

• Word Count: 898
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This "grant of God" gave Adam (and hence men) the right to exercise "dominion," merely in the sense of economic power, over the earth and all irrational creatures. ... In Tocqueville, however, we perceive that a democracy is a term with a common core of meaning lying underneath all the varied interpretations which are often made. At the root of all definitions lies the notion of popular power, of a situation in which power, and maybe even authority, rests with the common people. ... We know that the will of the people' is synonymous with majority, but even within majoritie...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, the grocer, who by that time has refused to serve either Ali or Emmi, decides that aversion must give way to business sense and welcomes Emmi and her custom back with open arms . ... It is Brecht's influence that explains the relatively bare and unnaturalistic stage design, since Brecht insisted on keeping props and sets to a bare minimum so that the spectator is not lulled into a false sense of realism. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Catcher in the Rye" is set in America in the 1950's a decade of common teenage rebellion that was evident in many aspects such as clothing music and attitudes towards authority. ... At Pencey prep Holden is has no real friends now any sense of belonging therefore despite his obvious intellectual abilities we see a lack of motivation or enjoyment offered to Holden which results in Holden not applying himself. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Conrad's depiction of the common European male exposes the extent of the denial involved with Imperialism. ... "The true center of Heart of Darkness is the subtly revealed psychology of an ethical human being struggling to maintain a moral perspective-a sense of moral cleanliness, at any rate-in a situation revoltingly immoral."" ...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate