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Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Vandana Shiva/Earth Democracy

same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Social Change in Classroom Environments

multicultural perspectives and the current emphasis in education on active learning, many teachers continue to perceive the purpos...

Mead on Warfare

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Obstacles of Knowledge According to Francis Bacon

were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Nursing Philosophy and Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

Cultural Diversity/Religion in South Africa

doing, we become fully human, but that humanness is reliant on our connections with others. When these connections are good, embra...

Two Paintings of the Italian Renaissance Compared

universe (Fleming 191). Michelangelo also divided the overall painting into three different zones in which there are varying inten...

Management Philosophy of Larry Flynt

In six pages this research paper examines the management style and philosophy of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Five sou...

Management Philosophy of Hugh M. Hefner

In six pages this research paper discusses the management philosophy of Playboy entrepreneur Hugh Hefner. Five sources are cited ...

Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Theoretical Foundations for Nursing, Various Issues

and Kramer (2008) to describe the ability of nurses to be cognizant of and reflect upon the wide variety of cultural, social and p...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Empirical and Rational Philosophies in Candide by Voltaire

This is a direct attack on Leibniz, who was regarded as a scholar in the fields of metaphysics, theology, and the cosmos. The phi...

Aristotle's Life and Contributions to Western Civilization

negative effects. His father was named Nichomachus and he belonged to the clan or guild of the Asclepiadae (Ross 1; Randall 12)...

Ancient Greece and Education

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

History of Southwest Airlines

In eleven pages this research paper examines Southwest Airlines in an overview that includes corporate history, management philoso...

'The Divinity School Address' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This feature of transcendentalism is clearly evident in Emersons address. Emerson begins "The Divinity School Address" with a ly...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

Moral Conduct and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...