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The Significance of Studying Military History

addition to perhaps studying liberal arts. Studies vary from nation to nation, but it seems as if training in the military does o...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Quanah Parker

advantage of the Comanche. Quanah grew up a Comanche warrior. Even then, however, he knew of the world of the...

DMAIC or MBO?

statistical control. Deming (2000) extended this to SoPK, saying it is necessary to have an understanding of both common cause va...

Article Analysis/Evidence-Based Practice

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

Complimentary Alternative Medicine

prongs. The other prong, however, relates to traditional medicines. The term "alternative" refers to those alternative approaches...

What is Plato's Republic Really About?

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

Michael Wood: "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great"

324 B.C. (Michael Wood: In the footsteps of Alexander the Great). Alexanders expedition was "a turning point in human history ... ...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Behavioral Treatment Methods in Self Injurious Behavior In the Autistic and Mentally Retarded - Treatment Effectiveness and Implications for Further Research

target a specific behavior rather than self-injury as a whole (Edelson, 2006). Each self-injurous behavior is likely to have spec...

Admission Essay

and customs to the University" and toward that end this year we held an information event on campus. The Embassies of Saudi Arabi...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

Weight Study Proposal

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

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...

A Research Proposal Investigating Travel Health Knowledge of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Travellers to Developing Counties

This 10 page paper is a research proposal to investigate the level of knowledge of travellers to developing countries concerning d...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Meaning of the 'New Economy'

on knowledge and input rather than existing wealth and political power. The markets themselves are undergoing rapid change. This c...

Three Medieval Theologians on Knowledge and Love

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

Age and Its Impact Upon Learning Changes

address the process of age-related learning; Piaget, Erikson and Gesell stand out as three of the most influential. III. THE PROC...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Example of Student Self Knowledge

a night out, such as a meal and a game of bowling. Other good experiences are more specific, such as the times when friends come t...

Similarities in Social Work's Epistemological Method and Posttraumatic Growth Conceptual Framework

change. "Indeed, a wound may heal, and the once-injured body part may become even stronger; therefore, a certain amount of stress...

Case Study on Toxic Waste Exporting and Ethics

of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...

Organizational Design, Management Knowledge, and the Contributions of Contingency Thinking

the ability to consider the way things may be different and then to look at the way this will impact on the company and then solve...

True Knowledge Concept of Plato

have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...