Evaluates the obligations that our government has to us as American citizens.

Our understanding of drug use and addiction is greater now than it was in the past, but much is still unknown. In their article "The Addicted Brain," published in Scientific American, Eric J. Nestler and Robert C. Malenka discuss the intricacies of drug addiction and the obstacles associated with both quitting a drug addiction and finding a cure for it.

In the article "The Kindness of Strangers," Robert V. Levine explains that environment, socialization, and economics affects how the willingness of people to help out others.

This essay is about the psychological hardships that John Nash, a mathematician, faced in his life. Information about the disease is also available.

Judith Lichtenberg successfully conveys her moral theory with many questions regarding her topics of abstractness, the sense of futility and ineffectiveness, overestimating our generosity, distance, the relativity of well-being, the power of shame, and the drops in the bucket. Using these practical and philosophical ideas she explains why we as a people should search to discover the obstacles that are preventing us from giving more, rather than the finding our charitable obligations and the amounts we should be giving. She leads us to the ideal of motivation and tells us to pay less attention to obligation, because without X being moved to do an act, does it really matter what the act was if X never induces the action?

Explores the subject of justice and fairness in relation to philosopher John Rawls. References his book his book `Justice as Fairness,' which gives a lengthy description of the primary subject of justice, which states that it is "The way in which the major social institutions describe fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social co operations."

Elie Wiesel's powerful story Night tells of pain and suffering experienced by a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The story befits John Donne's famous quote, "No man is an island . . . Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee," in that the sharing of a common culture and the subsequent feeling of belonging helped the prisoners to survive the horror of the concentration camps.

Essay analyzes the article "Play and Work in the Curriculum."

From a psychological perspective, examines the book, The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, by Judith L. Rapoport, MD. Provides details on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, using the book as a main source.

When something is going awry, people, including investors, become fearful and get carried away. There is no meaningful supply of oil in Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, or Syria, but that has not prevented oil markets from rallying. Investors think they need less risk, pushing stocks down, and U.S. bonds and the dollar up. But the hostilities now taking place are unlikely to expand to engulf Saudi Arabia and other sizeable oil producers, particularly since the Saudis have already publicly blamed Hezbollah as the instigator. Those who can separate political events overseas from economic and profit growth domestically should find very attractive investment opportunities now in equities.

The youths of today are not spared the rat race any more than are adults. They strive for acadamic excellence so that they can land themselves a better job in the future.

The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that "man is condemned to be free." While it is considered that fascism slowly kills of the mind through oppression, its exact opposite (freedom) slowly kills the conscience through personal liberty. Whenever an individual must decide from several equally good options, and that individual must be held accountable for the decision he or she makes, the freedom otherwise enjoyed by that individual becomes more of a condemnation and a potential trap.

By some the 1960s are regarded as a period of positive change that brought with it new freedoms. The opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in July 1964, which gave women confidential advice on family planning and contraception, was a turning point in the liberty and freedom of women.

Provides a discussion of why freedom is important, and an argument that the Proles are relatively more free than Winston.

Areas of reform in the US: The topics include: national security, health care, and endangered child welfare.

Essay is about the fact that what we believe is truth, if there is any, and what is it.

A biography of Illinois Senate Democrat Barack Obama, including his childhood, political career, famous speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and opinions of the author.

Discusses society and the media.

Thesis: Every human being has within them benevolence towards others, yet this morality is often clouded by our fickle and evil side, brought forth by scientific knowledge and the media.

Provides a comprehensive case study of a dyslexic 4-year-old boy. Describes his social relationships and general development. Provides treatment recommendations.

A brief analysis of Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, including further exploration of the meaning behind the concept of the "banality of evil."

Compares Australia's and China's political systems, including form of government, form of parliament, the head of state and the Constitution of the country.

An examination of the belief in aliens and reports of alien abductions and their place in American culture, particularly the conspiracy culture. Attention is also given to the links between alien abductions and popular literature and films, as alien abduction stories appeal to large movie-going audiences.

Various types of language disorders affect a considerable amount of children academically and socially worldwide. A major disorder is developmental language disorders (DLD) caused by central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). A CAPD is defined as showing "difficulties discriminating, identifying and retaining sounds after the ears have "heard" the sounds." Both language and auditory are processed in an infinite number of nuclei throughout both hemispheres of the brain. Thus it has been hypothesized that abnormalities of the corpus callosum (CC) are correlated with deficiencies in auditory and language processes. This article reviews studies that have tried to prove this hypothesis. Due to the homogenous nature of either process, it is too complicated to try to identify a single cause of a single structure of the brain. Studies have yet to be found of having strong evidence that the CC correlates (or does not correlate) with DLDs and CAPDs.

Discusses theories and studies into causes of interpersonal attraction. Examines research in this area, focusing on the Halo Effect.

A discussion of Freud's theory of religion.

An intellectual factual look at the Iraq War

Popular culture exists today through many different things, but not just material things such as radio's and TV's ect But also through emotional and spiritual feelings, everyone feels fear, hate, lust, envy, joy, happiness, and even love.

A satirical essay about Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".

In our new nation, we are aiming to create an economic system that mimics the United State's: a capital system with government regulations. Instead of an entirely capitalist system, ours will regulate the growth and actions of business while allowing them enough freedom to make decisions for themselves. One of the most important restrictions is one on big business monopolies.

This is an essay about how our goverment should be run.

What is truth and how can it really be defined? By contradicting truth, we contradict one self because it is how we interpret truth that defines it.

An informative essay about the general understanding of the sociology of knowledge. The essay also examines the roles which intellectuals play in the advancement of theory and scientific social knowledge.

The role of endorphins in the body

Pluralism in Canadian politics offers homosexuals the right to marry. However, the rights of the religious must also be considered to be truly pluralistic. This essay examines the imbalances and makes recommendations to restore a pluralistic balance.

Provides a political perspective on the United States Supreme Court. Describes the makeup of the court and its purpose. Explores how the court receives cases and what the future may bring to it.

Advises how a man should think and talk to a girl when trying ask her out on a date. Provides a five-step method for dating from a male perspective.

Students are able to study and work at the same time. Most of the working students have a part time job, and only some - a full time. And those who do not work are, for the most part, willing to.

Analysis and opinions abou the education maintenance allowance, a new government program in Britian designed to help low-income families.

Revisions to GDP were not huge measured by magnitude, but they were significant, when judged by their implications for policy. Since the end of the recession in 2001, real economic growth has been a bit slower, implying that productivity and economic growth potential have been weaker than previously thought, while labor costs and the economic risk of higher inflation are greater. One direct consequence of these changes is that the Fed will need a weaker economic growth rate to keep inflation under control. Hopes for an end to the Fed's rate hikes are predicated on weaker growth containing inflation pressures. These revisions suggest that the margin for error is lower and the risks of higher inflation are greater.

Essay discusses how unity within the human race is impossible.

Provides an in-depth analysis of a situational perspective on the psychology of evil and understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators. Uses literary texts as references.

Details about a psychological research study of adolescents and tests they took for Attention Deficit Disorder.

Stanley Milgram's article "The Perils of Obedience" tells of his experiments to test the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. In those experiments, Milgram found that the majority of people will fulfill the request of an authoritative figure even at the expense of their own moral judgment and sense of what is right and wrong.

The outcome of the Fed's next decision is too tough to call, as yet. The need for higher interest rates to slow down growth is fast becoming urgent, since inflation pressures are now rising visibly and strongly. However, job growth may be slowing, which could contain inflation pressures within a reasonable period of time. If the Fed were confident that a slower pace of job growth would be sustained, then the Fed could pause. But the slower pace of employment growth may be temporary. The Fed's next move is a very tough call right now based on the information at hand. So, the Fed will welcome the new data that will become available before its next meeting.

The responsibilities of being an informed, active and global citizen.

Essay describes what steps need to taken to have a Utopic society as well as the advantages one would provide.

Cross-cultural communication can be divided into two parts: win-win communication, which is a positive effect, and culture invasion, which is a negative effect. How can we repel culture invasion without holding back the win-win cross-cultural communication? The following examination of the pros and cons of cross-cultural communication in today's world includes consideration of how to overcome the defects and make progress.

Essay considers if a world without wars would be a Utopia.

Essay provides information about attention deficit disorder also known as A.D.D.

In A.J. Ayer's book "Language, Truth, and Logic," the author argues that metaphysics should be abandoned as a form of philosophy. Much of Ayer's critique of metaphysical philosophy stems from the idea that insight beyond the world of reality cannot be gained because it cannot be empirically observed and understood.