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On Science: Constructivist Views vs. Rationalist Views

programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Science v Religion

our world which to some are unquestionable and indubitable. Foundational knowledge serves as the immovable and irrefutable corners...

B.F. Skinner and William James

prominent philosopher, Carl Lange, was coining his own version of that theory. The resulting combination became known as the Jame...

Postive Deviance, Quantum Theory and Leadership

change. In any clinical setting, it is beneficial to implement evidence-based practices. A plan needs to be developed that inclu...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Personal Reflection on Science in Daily Life

PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is reflected in many aspects of day-to-day life. The scientific method...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

Psychology and its Historical Evolution

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

Interview with an Eight Year Old Third Grade Boy on Science

to be a scientist. However, he does think he could become one: "Could you become a scientist? Yes, but I dont want to." He thought...

Forensic Science and Capital Punishment

the system already, it involves people who have been in prison for years, some of them on death row. With the many recent discover...

Physical Scientist John Dalton

John Dalton, 1999). In 1800, at the age of thirty-four he resigned from his teaching position at New College and became secretary...

A Discussion Concerning African Literature

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Autobiographical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...

A Scientific Research Examination

one or more branches of science. What are the critical components of a scientific research project? A scientific research projec...

Sociology According to Max Weber and Emile Durkheim

as external to the individual, but internalized by the individual and not something determined by either biology or psychology. Th...

Nursing Knowledge: Development And Utilization

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

An Interdisciplinary Unit for Science and Health

(See Appendix with complete Standards) The following are the CT State Standards in Health for this lesson plan: 2.3-4.3 Identify ...

An Interdisciplinary Unit for Science and Health: Part II, Adaptations

the support of the peer-tutor in the writing piece of the assignment and to promote understanding through the use of diagrams, pic...

Researching and Writing the Case Study

that background on the particular business be taken prior to relaying the facts of the scenario on which the case is based. The ne...

Model of Integration: Science and Religion

either for science has surely not proven there is no God. And, in all honesty, one can doubt the validity of presumptions and foun...

Forensic Science: Overview

presence of embalming fluid and the interaction with soil. Chapter 2 Obtaining evidence is not considered a free-for-all where f...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Science: The Only Viable Way To Knowledge?

as complementary forces, they are - and have long been - destined to remain at opposite ends of the spectrum. Indeed, there has b...

The Psychological, Biological, and Social Science Obstacles in Understanding Bisexuality

was not the first theorist to draw this conclusion. His friend and mentor Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928) developed the concept that b...