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Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Overview of Reflexology

massage is depicted on a wall painting in a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt which dates back to 2330 B.C. In Greece until about AD 200, Del...

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement Overview

rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns ...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

Overview of Contemporary Judaism

The Jews wait for God to send the Messiah who will save them. This is the primary point of divergence between Christians and Jews...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

Examining Business Ethics

favorable opinion and thereby preserve the market capitalization available to them through stock market activity. Positive ...

Tibetan Lamas and Divinity

Noumenon, which Stein refers to as "the Absolute," which must be attained to ensure salvation (Stein 166). Reason alone is not cap...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

MSP Psychological Disorder

York, smothered her fourth and fifth children, Molly and Noah Hoyt, both children were less than three months old at the time of t...

Dementia and Mental Health Problem Origins

where, after an initial stage of processing the information will be divided up, for example, one stream of information may concern...

India, England, and Militarism

whether between groups within a society or between societies" (Gilman, 2002). Militarists, then, support the necessity for implem...

Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Success

global leader is to leverage the power of emotions to lead others to superior work performance across cultural and national bounda...

Islam, A History

and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...

Overview of Opals

µm diameter) and coarse tubular filament moulds >5 µm in diameter, whereas mid-temperature bubble mat microfacies characteristical...

Critical Review of Postmodernism

century, have altered the game rules for science, literature, and the arts" (Geyh 1). Postmodernism could be defined in a single ...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Q and A Format on Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Moore

revolutions each culminating in democracy, fascism and communism respectively (413-414). Winners are those who gain power and the ...

The Relationship Between Europe and Africa

in the early 18th century that the Fulani people east of present-day Sierra Leone invaded to convert the people of present-day Sie...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

All About Monsters

"The iron-braced door turned on its hinge when his hands touched it. Then his rage boiled over, he ripped open the mouth of the bu...

Literature and Human Evil

of Dr. Frankenstein. However, in all honesty it is not the monster who is evil. The monster tries to learn, tries to find a place ...

U.S. National Structures, Politics, and Race

protect women at all times from any misfortune that could occur. Whether that misfortune could lead to or result in physical harm...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...