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Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

The Creation of a Vaccine for AIDS

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper provides an overview of the process by which scientists have pursued a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. T...

Albert Einstein: Life and Accomplishments

patent office located in Bern ("Albert Einstein"). It was during his employment here that Einstein began to write about theoretica...

Richard J. Payne's Getting Beyond Race

In five pages this text is the subject of a book review that considers global cultural prejudice through the manipulation of race ...

Edwin Sutherland's Theory of Criminology

Edwin Sutherland in the 1930s broke from tradition when he posited that criminal behavior is not genetically controlled, but is a ...

'Just War' Concept and Operation Desert Storm

In six pages this paper applies the 'just war' concept to the Persian Gulf War in a consideration of its origins, its outcomes, an...

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

The Greatest Philosopher Aristotle

In a paper that contains four pages Aristotle's logic and employment of syllogism are heralded as being not only philosophically b...

The Use of Statistics in Behavioral Sciences

This 20 page paper discusses how behavioral scientists use statistics. The writer reviews three journal articles that discuss stud...

Climate Change

and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

The Language of God by Francis Collins

idea of a scientist who believes in God is inconceivable. Science with its rigorous examination of cause and effect, its strict de...

Richard P. Feynman's The Meaning of it All

many scientists should perhaps be skeptical of their own theories and allow for dispute. This is something that also helps the com...

The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg

on since the first days of human habitation and human effort to control the planets natural resources for its own purposes. The pa...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

Does Stress Cause Depression

This report investigated the question of how stress contributes to depression in some people and not in others? One of the results...

Methods for Proving Scientific Hypotheses

the product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning" (Watson and Stent 50). Watson and Crick work...

Hippocrates and Influence of Greek Medicine

As Hippocrates father, Heraclides, was a physician, it is likely that he was his sons first instructor in medicine (Jankowski, 201...

Recommendations for Nonprofits

effective learning organizations require a transformational leader at the top of their management hierarchy. Green also indicates ...

Contemporary Slavery/Impact of Slavery in U.S.

most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral ...

Two Issues/Social Stratification

surpass them (Kerbo, 2009, p. 52). As this indicates, issues of power, status and economics have tremendous influenced the ways in...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

Religion in the United States

impartial form of government: the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. One only needs to look at the Amendme...

Issues in Sociology

a distinction in terms of money, but there is certainly a distinction when it comes to race and other class factors that are separ...

Modern Religion Evolution

have been formulated that propose how religious observance may have come about. One of the first theories proposed pertaining to ...

Life and Art of Franz Kafka

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Past and Present Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...