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Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

J.B. Priestley's 2 Kinds of Authors Analyzed

this might be referred to as either daydreaming or free association, when the knowledge is finally told it often resembles what is...

The Value of Personal Knowledge over Classroom Instruction

the Quran. For this young woman, the headscarf is not only a sign of her faith, but a political protest that stems from the lesson...

IBM Proposal for a Knowledge Management Program

nineteenth century, and develops through the twentieth century, always based in the development of new technologies. IBM have been...

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Intellect and Knowledge and Descartes

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

Virtues of Mind by Linda Zagzebski

combining the areas of reform epistemology, philosophy and psychology, with the intent to prove that intelligent virtue is the tru...

Knowledge and the Views of Plato and Aristotle

In seven pages the philosophical arguments by Plato and Aristotle regarding knowledge involves discussion of its source, acquisiti...

Transforming Knowledge and Effective Writing

reader, but it is not likely if the writing is dry or bland. One has to wonder weather or not bland writing is sufficient or just...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

3 Epistemology Articles Evaluated

the idea that indeed, there is something that is true and real. Whether or not individual human beings know what that is, is besid...

Justified True Belief as Knowledge A Philosophical Inquiry

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

Roderick M. Chisholm's Knowledge Theory

In six pages Chisholm's theory of knowledge and the reliance on memory and the senses as sources of this knowledge are discussed. ...

Changes in Business Employee Hiring Approaches

for positions at lower levels and a wide range of costs is evident." Yet, unfortunately many Human Resource professionals overloo...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Organizational Behavior and Globalization

success. Organizational Structure In Singers heyday it was not necessary to operate at the greatest level of efficiency tha...

Financial Analysis of Citicorp

In eight pages Citicorp is examined in terms of its past and current performance of the past five years through GDP comparative an...

Reincarnation and Past Life Regression

investigation that Dr. Weiss found Catherine, a patient who "started to channel wisdom Weiss believed to be from beyond the scope ...

China's Daily Life Past and Present

In five pages China's daily life is examined within the contexts of the past and present and emphasizes the many changes of the pa...

Formal Mechanisms in Providing Critical Human Services

This 5 page essay admonishes the world for its past failures in providing for the needs of the poor. The establishment of human s...

Water Problems in California

salinity doubled (Witze 72). Concerns about the local ecology prompted numerous bitter court battles over the management of this w...

IT Staffing in Public Schools

70 "percent of teachers claimed to use computers daily" (Beattie, 2000). The problem that many teachers face is that not only mus...

The Anti-Gun Campaign in the UK

into a specific behaviour pattern. During elections may be are biased views of the electorate to favour the government, however wi...

The American Dream

and then sued the "bad" trusts that essentially took advantage of small businesses and the people (Jensen, 2007). One of these "ba...

Fields of Philosophy

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

Capital Budgeting at General Motors and Ford

Ford took a first mover advantage with the investment in a production line based on Taylors ideas of scientific management, are no...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...