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Consciousness Shaped by Culture

to have pancakes for breakfast isnt exhibiting an instinctual response, but rather a cultural preference (A Baseline Definition of...

Animals and the Study of Consciousness

The nature and extent of consciousness in animals has been the source of hot debate in the scientific community. This paper examin...

The Science of Consciousness

not sound in this matter due to the inability to gather all necessary data prior to the reduction (Cooney, 1999). Without the cor...

Bad Faith Concept of Jean Paul Sartre

rise to apprehension and fear, the individual then takes refuge in conscious reflection, which forms the second stage. However, th...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

Conflict and Characterization in Faulkner, Joyce, and James

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

The role of emotion and cognition in the development of consciousness.

This paper looks at the part played by emotion and cognition in the way we develop consciousness. Psychologists such as Ellis have...

Adaptive Consciousness

Human consciousness has proved very adaptive throughout our existence. This paper discusses the nature of human consciousness and ...

Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained

there is some degree of understanding regarding what is meant by the term consciousness and how we can so easily define which are ...

Double Consciousness Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois

anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...

'Double Consciousness' and W.E. B. Du Bois

self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world" (Du Bois [1]). It is this par...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Philosophy Shapes Research, Research Shapes Practice

serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...

'A Psychobiological Approach to Shamanic Altered States of Consciousness' by Pegg A. Wright

In five pages this article that appeared in the ReVision journal in 1994 is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

Chairman Mao's Views and How They Were Shaped by Culture and History

In five pages this paper examines the 'Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art' and what they reveal about the political, ...

Distinctions That Shaped the U.S. Culture from Old Europe

This "novel way of life" according to Pringle (1998), "then diffused across the Old World" (p. 1446). However, these societies Ne...

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

How Culture and Religion Shape Each Other

The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father, they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear...

U.S., Mexico, and Cultural Perspectives on Management

can be seen as nothing more than the relaying of facts. Adler (2001) provides an example of this cultural politeness in the form ...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

New Designs from Ancient Forms

Originally, there were fifty-eight columns: seventeen on the sides, eight at each end, and six in the inner row of each porch. Th...

How Pre History Shaped America

way, no fast food restaurants and no local Wal-Mart supplying Coleman stoves sleeping bags. Those first adventuresome souls to tr...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Social Networks And Worldviews

being a necessary and holistic approach to appreciating, respecting and accepting the myriad cultures present in a university sett...

Society and Ethics of the Individual

In four pages this paper examines society within the context of personal and professional ethics and how they shape both culture a...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...