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King Josiah Reforms, 2005.
This paper compares two different accounts of King Josiah's reforms as found in 2 Kings 22-23 and 2 Chronicles 34-35.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that the two versions of King Josiah's reforms in 2 Kings 22-23 and 2 Chronicles 34-35 are similar, at least in the beginning. The version in Chronicles adds a second story concerning the keeping of the Passover. The author points out that both tales depict King Josiah as a great reformer, a king who restored the true traditions of Israel and who faithfully followed the precepts of God. The paper relates that both versions dwell on Josiah's actions in wiping out paganism; Josiah avails himself of every possible means to completely and totally erase from view objects and symbols of error.
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"The stories of King Josiah's reign that are found in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles agree in their condemnation of bad practices. They agree too, in the need for God's order to be maintained and in the necessity of those who are charged with setting a good example to set such a good example. The second version adds to the original story only because the author feels that he must, as evidently the people of Israel have slipped even further from the righteous path. It made sense to him to include an accurate description of the celebration of Passover in the story of a King who was already widely believed to be especially holy and especially committed to the propagation of God's truth. Thus, these two versions of the same story differ because their intended audiences differ."
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The Story Of King Josiah, 2004.
This paper explains how the story of King Josiah's reformation is written in different ways in Kings and in Chronicles to achieve different effects.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper examines how the Old Testament's works of Kings and Chronicles included the story of King Josiah's reformation in their texts. The paper continues that each told the story with emphasis on different aspects in order to teach different lessons.
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"Transformations of the Story of King Josiah: A historian named Matt Clarcq once said that the art in history is how you tell it. Kings and Chronicles tell different transformations of the story of King Josiah, the great reformer, before the first destruction of the Temple. The differences in the story show how the writers of these Hebrew texts wanted to influence the people of their time. Kings was compiled by Deuteronomic editors. The purpose was to assemble the oral and written traditions into a continuous story."
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Josiah's Reform, 2002.
A look at the relationship between Josiah's reform in Kings and Chronicles.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper explores the relationship between Josiah's reform in Kings and Chronicles. The key to the comparison/contrast is the Deuteronomist's preoccupation with certain concepts and themes - notably covenant and faithfulness.
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Josiah Willard Gibbs, 2007.
This paper looks at the life and achievements of American scientist, Josiah Willard Gibbs.
1,544 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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In this article, the writer studies the character of Josiah Willard Gibbs, a mathematician and physicist. The writer discusses that he managed to achieve great things during his lifetime and lead the world on to greater and better scientific discoveries. The writer points out that Josiah Willard Gibbs has been recognized as one of the greatest American scientists of the nineteenth century. Further the writer notes that it is Gibbs who managed to provide a sound thermodynamic foundation to physical chemistry, to America and to the entire world.
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"The second work that Gibbons published in the same year was "A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces". From the years from 1876 to 1878, Gibbs published two memoirs, which were later to be combined into one work, entitled, "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances". Added to this, Josiah Willard Gibbs has contributed to various other spheres, like for example, crystallography, the determination of planetary and comet orbits, and also to electromagnetic theory. The most interesting phenomenon that Gibbs managed to achieve was that he made the practical side of science appealing and fascinating. Gibbs was also recognized as a 'theoretical physicist' of international stature, and he received a patent in the year 1866 for an improved type of railroad brake."
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Josiah Wedgwood, 2005.
A look at the history of Wedgwood pottery and its designer, Josiah Wedgwood.
873 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper offers a brief examination of the history of Wedgwood pottery and the man who started the product, Josiah Wedgwood. Discusses the most famous products and why they were best-sellers.
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"In addition to the wildly successful Cream Ware, or "Queen's Ware" as it became known, Wedgwood would also produce two other innovations that would set its success in stone. These were Black Basalt a fine black porcelain, and Jasper. Specifically, with the Black Basalt, Wedgwood could turn out tremendous product to meet the new "neoclassic" tastes of fashionable society-and with the innovative Jasper Ware; amazingly successful due to its durability yet delicacy combined with heretofore unachieved purity of color."
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The Idealistic World of Josiah Royce, 2006.
A review of Josiah Royce's philosophical approach to idealism.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews the life of Josiah Royce, born in the United States in 1855 and died in 1916. According to the paper, Royce was the leader of the idealistic school of thought in the United States and was personally a proponent of objective idealism. This study examines in more critical depth the philosophical approach of Royce, specifically focusing on the difference that Royce characterized between subjective and objective idealism. Further, how is idealism differentiated from realism? While these may seem like fairly straightforward examinations, understanding the tack that Royce used in demonstrating his arguments is more complicated.
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Hard Times, 2007.
This paper discusses the characterization of Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby in "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens.
1,748 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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In this article, the writer analyzes Charles Dickens' novel 'Hard Times' and notes that it is constructed around the opposition between fact and fancy. The writer points out that Dickens criticizes the nineteenth century materialist and utilitarian philosophy, which had turned man into a simple cog in the large machine of the society. The writer maintains that the book is, at the same time, a social and a philosophical critique. The writer relates that Dickens denounces the political economy and the law system of the age, which were only concerned with raw facts and statistics, not minding the poverty and the hardships of the working class individual. The writer concludes that Dickens completely demolishes the materialist and reductionist philosophy of his age, showing the absurdity of cultivating nothing but the totally inhuman ideas connected with fact and palpable reality.
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"The emphasis on the name is significant, as the character sees himself as a sort of epitome for the mechanic philosophy. He is constructed as being directly related to the philosophy he represents. Gradgrind shapes himself thus as to fit perfectly in the general mechanism of the world. Personality, no less than life itself, is based entirely on facts. Everything, including a human being, has a precise definition according to Gradgrind, who seems to imply that "Thomas Gradgrind" is only another name for definitions, calculations and demonstrations."
"There are many metaphors in the novel that support Dickens' characterization of Gradgrind."
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Pragmaticism, 2007.
This paper discusses the 20th century school of philosophy called pragmaticism.
1,515 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that, in the 20th Century, Charles Sanders Peirce and William James initiated a new American philosophical movement called American pragmatism, which states that people act out of a desire to find what truly exists. The author points out that, as pragmatism evolved, it began to differ greatly from past philosophies because it changed the definition of truth from a theory-laden world to a monistic philosophy focusing instead on individualism. The paper relates that, after his close study of Kant's work, Josiah Royce added new ideas of idealism to this philosophy, which he later renamed pragmaticism. The author states that Peirce thought that the entire universe was one mind moving towards a rational end based on love. The paper summarized that Royce stated that if one can't express something as an idea it is not possible.
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"Prior to Kant signs were understood as immobile tools used to create sense of the world. Peirce's close study of Kant led him to conceive a triadic relation of signs. Peirce concluded that signs can be an action or power, which is, or involves, a collaboration of three subjects (Kolak 442). He had found a problem with language and stated that language is just a noise people make and that these noises are not connected to reality at all (Kolak 456). These would be a sign, its object, and its interpretant. First, there is a sign that is basically a term that is normally said to represent or mean something. Next, its object is the thing that the sign signified. Finally, its interpretant is how a sign represents the object (Kolak 442). To summarize this theory, it means variable "A means B to C" (Kolak 455). The interpretant is something like a mind or mental process on how we see the sign being signified. Peirce thought that a sign itself was meaningless until it was interpreted and concluded that there are four different kinds of interpretants: emotional, energetic, logical and habitual (Kolak 456)."
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The Changing Tradition, 2003.
An insight into the oral tradition of the Native Americans through a review of Leslie Marmon Silko's book "Ceremony".
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains how traditions must change over time to remain relevant and shows how Leslie Marmon Silko illustrates the importance of oral tradition and language with Tayo?s story in her novel, "Ceremony". It examines how Native Americans believe that when people speak, they exchange spirits and the addition of human breath transforms sounds into words and gives them life. The living word then becomes a part of each individual who hears it which is why oral tradition is so important to them. It compares Auntie and Josiah and how they view tradition and people outside their race and how Silko uses Auntie to represent people who blindly follow the traditions of the past while not believing in the spirit behind them.
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"Oral tradition includes many different forms including ?letters, anecdotes, gossip, jokes, poems, legends, family stories, crafted stories?that must be included for a person to become self-knowing, to create community and even to comprehend the evil, the witchery, which disrupts community? (Brown). Silko uses many of these forms in Ceremony. The novel, as a whole, is an example of a crafted story. The different components of the novel are also important parts of the oral tradition. Grandma ?liked to sit by her stove and gossip about the people who were talking about their family? (Silko 89). As she gossiped, she carried on that tradition. The story of Tayo is also a good example of Silko using the oral tradition, because it is an example of a family story."
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