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Virginia Held on defining "Human" and "Natural"

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

10 Fallacies

that the borrower is being unfair not to return it as this generalization was not covered in the original agreement (Dowden). 3....

Nursing and the Concept of Reflective Thinking

In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...

First Respondents and Handling Critical Incident Stress

like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiting, twitches, fainting, confusion, nightmares, suspiciousness, anxiety, panic, grief, ...

Author's Arguments Presented in Former California Governor Pete Wilson's Securing Our Nation's Borders

argument by discussing statistical facts: 1. There are a million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone (1). 2. Only one-third o...

James Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'

This is a 5 page paper that explores what how protagonist Stephen agonizes over what he thinks he should do as opposed to what oth...

Contemporary Thinking and the Influence of Existentialism, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

Examining the Critiques of The Quiet American by Greene

The Viking Critical Library version of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, edited by John Clark Pratt, contains a wide variety of ...

Education and Issues in the Classroom

Teachers in America face critical issues in making everyday classroom decisions. This paper examines a fictitious first-grade clas...

Logical Reasoning and Fallacies in Philosophy

In twelve pages fallacies are defined and their role in logical reasoning is discussed in this outline. There are more than five ...

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn and Human Motivation

his cold-hearted analysis of the warmest human emotion. To many people, the basic behaviorist outlook has always seemed to be mora...

Rogain Magazine Advertising Fallacy

In two pages this paper presents the product Rogaine's promise of hair regrowth as an example of magazine advertising fallacy. On...

Socrates's Argument Fallacies and Crito by Plato

In five pages this paper discusses Socrates' argument fallacies as they are portrayed in Crito by Plato. There are no other sourc...

Dialectical Thought According to Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin

In five pages Horkheimer's dialectical thinking is examined in terms of design and application by two additional theorists from th...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Disabled and Issues in Sexuality

Many people have misconceptions about individuals with disabilities and sexuality issues. This article corrects these fallacies an...

Food Imports

The FDA has several critical regulations in place in regard to food imports into the US. These included Hazard Analysis and Criti...

Critical Reflective Practice from a Critical Perspective

Performance assessments of professionals in the early childhood field often use critical reflective practice. This paper examines ...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

Advertising Fallacies

a product for a tough man (Poucher). Other products also appeal to male consumers with ads that are "riddled with logical fallac...

Logical Fallacies and Philosophy in Minority Report

if the "future is set and cannot be altered or whether free will makes that future a possibility rather than a certainty" (Berardi...

MIDLIFE CRISIS IS NOT A FALLACY

Fear of aging, loss of independence and being looked at as old and doddering all preys upon the mind and can instigate the need to...

Fact and Fallacy Regarding Body Language

only when the observer is very familiar with the culture of the individual being observed and even with the individual themselves....

Cognitive Development and Therapy

Piaget did not start out to be a developmental psychologist. He was very interested in natural sciences and did not turn to psycho...

Troubled Artists: Creativity As A Catharsis

starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...

Opinions and Biases in Research

and the critique of knowledge. These may be framed as different forms of critique, but are often interdependent, as Gold (et al, 2...

Healthy Work Environments: Decision Making In Nursing

volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

Relationship Between Baconian And Cartesian Philosophy During The Scientific Revolution

his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...