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Scientific Functionalism Versus Empiricism

This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...

Alternatives to Physical Punishment in Child Discipline

A paper arguing against physical punishment as a means of negative reinforcement for children. The author presents alternatives t...

ESP Does Not Exist

In four pages this paper argues against ESP's so called existence by providing opposing evidence to claims made by researchers in ...

An Argumentative Essay on American Gypsies

In six pages this paper argues against the discrimination of Gypsies and supports the preservation of their ideals and contributio...

Violence and How It is Defined by Society

In four pages this paper discusses Howard J. Ehrlich's argument that society's definition of violence should be expanded but ultim...

A Just Verdict, Albert Fujimori

This essay argues the verdict reached against Albert Fujimori, former president of Peru, is appropriate due to the detriment, inju...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Performance Enhancement Drugs and the Risks They Pose

a "six pack" of rippling abs, has led to "a new body image known as muscle dysmorphia, or reverse anorexia, a condition in which m...

Controversy Over Stock Options and Expensing

to be so controversial is because no one is really sure what their value is, making it difficult to expense in a financial report....

An Argumentative Essay on Using Marijuana

argument against marijuana legalization. Califano specifically focuses on the issue of marijuana as a gateway drug and cites sta...

Is the EFCA a Good Act

talk with employees to see if they are interested. Then, unions have employees who are interested sign authorization cards that su...

"Some Moral Minima" by Lenn Goodman

Goodman presents challenges to relativism, which is the view that morality is relative and that ethical truths are dependent on th...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Same Sex Marriages Should Not Be Allowed

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

Political Agendas of the Islamic Salvation Front

is to save people from governmental interference, they view themselves as "sovereign citizens" (Freeh, 1998, p. PG) who have the i...

Antidepressants and Children

the media paid particular attention to its effects on children. Of course, this was widely known prior to the time that media got ...

Consequentialism and Capital Punishment

more important than the outcome. The latter sees the consequences as the most important thing and so would exceed the speed limit ...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Relationship Between Society and Art

In this paper, well present sources that prove that Mr. Greenbergs philosophies are little more than elitist snobbery and that art...

Public School Inclusion of Special Education Students

1998). They even question what schools and teachers are actually supposed to do to meet the needs of disabled children (Stout, 200...

Labor Issues in Canada

where they are paid per piece rather than by the hour (Hammadieh, 1998). The hourly wage typically ranges between $2.50 and $4.00 ...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Moral Considerations

types of body cells, the undifferentiated forerunners of those cells that eventually will form organs, bone, blood and every other...

Arguing in Favor of Patronizing Local Shopping Establishments

That includes all of our local businesses, those small, one-location things that have been closing at record rates since Wal-Mart ...

Analyzing the Gulf War Leadership of President George H.W. Bush

prices, cut the legs off of this machine. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had to be drilling diagonally across the border and tapping the...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Teacher Unions

pay, and their rights as employees. On the other hand, teacher unions are generally different than other unions perhaps li...

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...

U.S. Racial Profiling

(Legal Information Institute, 2002). A Supreme Court decision in 1996 made racial profiling illegal, however, the decision allows...

U.S. 'Wealthfare' is a Bad Idea

According to a survey released by Essential Information in 1994, it was estimated that U.S. tax payers would pay more in 1994 for ...