Landau College Essays Samples For Students

For a span of 52 years, Napoleon impacted the world in an astonishing manner (Elaine Landau 89). There are numerous achievements that Napoleon initiated without regard to the prevailing circumstances. The revolutions and instances of expedient military conquests, spell out the magnitude of individual effort that Napoleon employed to ensure success in the wars he waged (Elaine Landau 75). Napoleon’s personal, visionary statement was, “The most dangerous moments come with victory (John Abbott 233).” Numerous cases of double superior leadership positions like the Emperor of France and Italy’s King dictate that Napoleon’s achievements were more individually driven as ...

Cultural relativism is a belief in morality that places the moral authority with the culture instead of the individual. Right and wrong then are decided by consensus of the culture instead of some external law or individual conclusions based on what is right and wrong. As Russ Shafer-Landau discusses in chapter 6 of his book, this does not create a stable code of ethics that is consistent over time and across cultures, but instead a fluent code of ethics that is likely to change and sharpen itself. He writer “Each of these traits, in proportion as it reinforces the chosen behavior patterns ...

Hume argues that "knowledge of [the relation of cause and effect] is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori, but arises entirely from experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other" (Bailey, p. 297lc). This sentence announces the conclusion for which Hume will argue over the next pages.
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume argues that there are no absolute premises to make claims about future occurrences. Even though our experiences and our reasoning make us think that objects would act in a particular way, we still cannot be certain ...

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Neutron Stars: The ‘Death’ of a Death Star

Introduction: Neutron stars are dense, compact masses of subatomic particles (called ‘fermions’) compressed by great gravitational forces (Reisenegger 1). They are classified into three groups: the radio pulsars, which are rotating neutron stars that are predictable pulsators of radio waves due to its fast (Landau n. p.; Reisenegger 2) although sometimes slow (Fuller, et al. 1) rotation; magnetars, which neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the universe and violently burst high-energy X-ray and gamma rays (Landau n. p.); nonrotating binary neutron stars, which are emitters of x-rays (Reisenegger 3); and PSR ...

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In Morgan Spurlock’s controversial and influential 2004 documentary Super Size Me, the documentarian – a devoted vegetarian and health nut – chose to eat only food purchased from McDonald’s for thirty days straight. Over the course of that film, Morgan goes from a thin, clear-headed individual with good health and a healthy relationship to an overweight man with health problems and a strained relationship. In essence, the question being posed to the audience is one grounded in virtue ethics, utilitarianism and consequentialism – in essence, the culpability of the customers of McDonald’s are explored, and the consequences of their actions for choosing a diet. ...

The financial crisis that hit the global economy in the latter part of the past decade brought to question the soundness of financial practices particularly in the world’s major economies. Many governments struggled to bring their respective economies back on course although the post-crisis initiatives to address the causes seem not to have been sufficient. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a movement established in 2011 following the crisis and in response to continued suffrage of the ordinary American citizen at the hands of the few corporate elite in the financial sector and politicians. This was set out clear in ...

Public image of nurses: past, present, and future

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Undoubtedly, the nursing profession has vital ingredients of accountability and autonomy. Also, it is true to assert that nursing profession demands more responsibilities than before when the main role of a nurse was just to provide comfort and care. In the modern world, a nurse is expected to be an advocate for clients, a manager, and an educator (Drayton & Weston, 2015). However, little attention is drawn towards the assessment of the actual public image and perception of nurses. Nurses seem to dwell in a dual structure of nursing and social worlds. The two worlds tend to influence and ...

Since time exceeding back memory, people have had different views in as far as the existence of God and the universe are concerned. Theist believe that God exists and He is the creator of the universe while atheists, such as Stephen Hawking, are of the opinion that the existence of God is simply a delusion and that the universe is simply as a result of evolution through forces of nature. Each of these two opposing sides has come up with its own theories and arguments to support its view. These contrasting beliefs have had a significant impact on people’s way of ...

When it comes to the hiring, management and retention of employees, there are plenty of departments that have an impact. However, the most widespread impact most certainly comes from the human resources department. If a human resources department is not doing their job well, the impact this mismanagement or lack of management is felt throughout the business because the people that are hired will generally not be the best and the brightest and the good employees that do come along are quite likely to get frustrated or disgusted and head for greener pastures. While the functional departments of a ...

Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns are distinct artists in aspects of their style and things that influenced their art. They are, however, both influential artists that changed the face of art in their times and share that in common. Jackson Pollock was motivated into his art by his personal life and struggles. The artist, who dies in a car accident in 1956, was known for his struggle against alcoholism. He met Dr. Joseph Henderson who helped to shape the course of his art career in 1941. The psychiatrist made him express his feelings through art, and that helped him cope ...

Absurdity of human existence is a hard philosophical question. The problem of absurdity of human existence arises from the point of view that the universe is meaningless and there is nothing in the world worth living. According to existentialism the tragedy of human existence is that people are like abandoned in the world of physical pleasures. They don't know how to live in the world, aware of the impermanence of existence.
In this essay I would like to highlight Albert Camus’, Richard Taylor’s and Thomas Nagel’s points of view on absurdity of human existence.
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The rise and the spread of Islam can be traced back to the fight of Hijra and the conquering of the Mecca. Prophet Muhammad (the last prophet of Islam religion) was living in exile together with his followers in Medina near Mecca. They used to raid caravans going to Mecca for their food supplies and other essential needs. However, the Muslims were facing a number of problems such as, their number had increased and they needed a place to settle and engage in economic activities. Additionally, the situation was aggrieved by the mistreatment and persecution by the Mecca’s. Thus, to ...

James Cameron is a household name in the film industry. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise in film production, film directing and screen writing. His works include two of the world’s all-time best films. As a testament to the crucial role that Cameron has played to the general film industry, he has been nominated six times for the Academy Awards, something that few film directors have achieved. In essence, two of his movies, Avatar and Titanic are two of highest earning films of all-time, respectively raking $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion all over the world. Vanity Fair named him ...

Over the centuries, philosophers have formulated theoretical framework disengaging right from wrong to guide the society in living an ethical life. My worldview leans significantly to the theoretical framework of virtue ethics. This theory postulates that living rightly an individual has to develop the virtues of courage, temperance, wisdom and compassion, while at the same time avoid vices such as selfishness, greed and jealousy, (Shafer-Landau, 2007). My philosophical view of life is that of living virtuously, I consider this type of living as bringing peaceful coexistence between members of the society and keeping conflicts on the low, if they ...

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In physics and in physics it is a belief that ones safety is not related to the speed in which one is travelling or moving in but it is rather how fast you stop. When a collision occurs ones safety will not be based on the speed in which he was moving in before the collision occurred, but rather it would be matter of how fast he stopped when the collision occurred. The urgency in which one stops a moving object during a collision process would dictate the magnitude of the collision. A person who reacts and stops the car ...