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Structuralism and How It Evolved During the 20th Century

that are related to cultural phenomena ("Structuralism," 2003). It examines elements of infrastructures and sees them as "relatio...

Bas van Fraassen's A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction and Grover Mazwell's Theoretical Entities

He admits that the higher powered the glass through which we are looking, the more vague our observations may be, but he also indi...

Infancy And The First Year Of Life: Secure Attachment As The Base For Growth And Learning

of reflexive patterns keeps newborns from assimilating and associating into their individual worlds to any great extent, yet by th...

Guinevere, Legendary Wife of King Arthur

In ten pages this paper charts the evolution of the Guinevere myth considering its Celtic origins and the contributions of Thomas ...

Nature of Dreams According to Sigmund Freud

In twenty pages this paper examines the nature of dreams in terms of Sigmund Freud's theoretical interpretations of them....

Being 'American' Concept Creation

In five pages the ways in which 'being American' as a nationality concept are considered in an examination of four authors of earl...

Social Problems, Social Conflict and “Humanistic Theories

This paper examines social problems' causes and effects from a theoretical perspective in five pages....

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

Irigaray's Spiritual Concepts Analyzed

way to change. She has come up with a way of looking at things that transcends traditional feminist thought. The thesis of this pa...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Eamon de Valera and Irish Politics

run in Ireland. Perhaps it was his earliest experiences in America that led to his stubborn refusal to accept the Irish political ...

Anthropology and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

Universe Understanding of Sir Isaac Newton

forces which acted on objects on the Earth were the same for heavenly bodies, then it would explain mathematically Keplers theorie...

Revolutionary Beliefs of Albert Einstein

moon. This was possible because, Einstein theorized, that the same laws that govern the physics of nature must be true of things...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

Atomic Theory Contributions of John Dalton

made popular the theory of tiny atomic particles. HOW DALTONS THEORY ALTERED EARLY THEORY John Dalton, a British chemist as we...

Behaviorism's Precepts from Ivan Pavlov to B.F. Skinner

This research paper consists of six pages and discusses the theoretical contributions of Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner to behaviori...

Weber, Durkheim, and Marx on the Sociology of Religion

In fourteen pages the sociology of religion is examined in terms of the theoretical contributions of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, an...

Learning Theories of Burrhus Frederic Skinner

enlisted in his academic school of operant conditioners were losing the competition for good university jobs to cognitive scientis...

Frederick Taylor, Walter A. Shewart, W. Edwards Deming, and the Scientific School of Management

In six pages this paper examines the contributions of these men in the development of the scientific management theoretical school...

Contributions of Theoretician Alfred Adler to the Field of Psychoanalysis

more lasting and ultimately more far-reaching (Hirsch, 2005, p. 473). He contended that both sexes possessed masculine and femini...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Big Bang Theory, Gravity, and the Universe

the infinite density that comprised all universal matter during the Big Bang were said to "break down irretrievably" (A Brief Hist...

Classroom Setting, Behaviorism, and the Contributions of Thorndike's Theories

sufficient evidence that direct instruction teaching would result in flexibility that is needed for students in order to target st...

Austrian Economist Carl Menger

much is really not certain. Other economists who emerged prior to Menger contributed a great deal as well. Menger did try to sign...

Early Management Theoretical Pioneers

"produce rational, good and humane people" (Spartacus Educational, 2001). His argument was that people were inherently good "but t...

Semantics and the Contributions of Professor Beth Levin

After presenting the main research discussed in each paper and the authors suggestions, this paper will then briefly assess the so...