Each setting is constructed such that it exhibits physical, historical, social, and moral attributes, and resultantly each has a different effect on the main characters of the text psychologically. ... Tasmania, which lies outside of the protagonist Ellen's comfortable setting, is described from Ellen's point of view as being "by turns cultivated and wild" and violent. She describes the landscape as having a cultural feature, "An occasional stone cottage or hut built of wattle-and-daub", which is dominated by a wild feature, "the tiered forests towering above them". ... Similarly, sh...

• Word Count: 2071
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, early signs of Tilikum's behavior occurred at a park called "Sealand" where his aggression began due to tight confinement and punishment enforced training; after his first incident of drowning a trainer the park closed down and Seaworld then purchased Tilikum (Blackfish). ... Seaworld advertises false knowledge of their whales in order to protect their multi billion dollar company, stating false information to their visitors to disguise the truth behind a happy orca in the wild compared to the captured whales in Seaworld's pools. It is a known fact that Orca...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as soundly rationalized. ... If cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus is so pervasive that it is even drawn from our psychological biology, and can be found in the very confines of the wild, this of course then shirks the argument that aggression in the form of "torture" can be considered "inhumane.... Another factor...

• Word Count: 1327
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as soundly rationalized. ... If cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus is so pervasive that it is even drawn from our psychological biology, and can be found in the very confines of the wild, this of course then shirks the argument that aggression in the form of "torture" can be considered "inhumane.... Another factor...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He begins by comparing the two different manners of human understanding, which fall under the broad category of Moral philosophy. ... This form of perplexing philosophy can also be called metaphysics, and throughout the greater portion of the text, Hume attempts to defend it against the critics who always belittle it and consider the "easy and obvious philosophy" the ideal and more acceptable one. ... Even when an idea at first seems completely wild and excursive, there is always a principle of connection between all ideas of the mind. ... In an attempt to further defend his claim...

• Word Count: 1547
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main motif of the story is the unreliable narrator, with the testimonies from each witness repeatedly called into question. ... Sontag calls photographs "incontrovertible" in a way that an account cannot be, as the photograph was recorded by a more objective source: a camera. ... The different stories portray the other characters in very harsh light, and with wild disparity between all of their accounts, the depravity of humanity is further explored. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fitzgerald's presents to his reader the 1920's as the decade of decayed social and moral values. ... It was the reckless jubilance and satisfaction seeking, as commonly seen in the extravagant parties thrown by Gatsby, that lead to decadent parties and wild jazz music that lead to the demise of the American dream. ... They started drinking alcohol, smoking and dancing a new type of dance called "swing ". ... She represents the new women who calls herself "Flapper ". ...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a year he went to England, where he became a master printer, sowed some wild oats, amazed the locals with his swimming feats, and lived among inspiring writers of London. ... Civic Leader & Scientist In 1727, Franklin began his career as a civic leader by organizing a club of aspiring tradesmen called the Junto. ... To acquire moral perfection a person must concentrate on one virtue per week. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gatsby even goes so far as to place his enormous mansion just across the lake from Daisy's home and throws wild, decadent parties in effort to win her back and obtain the final piece of an elaborate destiny of greatness. ... What was once for Thomas Jefferson - a belief in self-reliance and hard work has become what Nick Carraway calls "...the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." Jay Gatsby, one of the few dreamers left in a period of moral decline, becomes hopelessly caught up in the decadence, and materialism of the 1920s where he loses sight of his more noble goals. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. ... Set in the palaces and boardrooms of Europe and in the villages of central Africa, it tells the story of the tragedy that took place during Leopold's so called rule, a tragedy that is so familiar to African-Americans, being told of our African brothers residing in the homeland. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate