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Predicting the Future Through Science Fiction

in mankinds history, the machine will far exceed that most refined and sophisticated of all machines: the human brain? The movie ...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

Clinical Psychology and Scientific Practice

it from its tenuous hold as a scientific discipline. The main belief in this type of practices was that patients were chil...

Concept of Human Relations

differences but rather to expose common ground (Wilbers, 1996). "...The power of rhetoric, Rogerian or not, to heal is as powerfu...

Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Technology and Women

the higher jobs that the males seem to obtain. This technology gap is addressed in AAUWs report (Wolff, 1999). Still, it is a rath...

Femininity and Psychoanalysis

with masculinity. The fact that the scientific population is, even now, a population that is overwhelmingly male, is itself a cons...

Computer Science and Graph Theory's Future

irrelevant nor is it important as to how long the lines are (2003). This idea is contrary to most other forms of mathematics such ...

Meditations by Descartes, Skepticism and Science

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

Science Paper Writing

the conclusions. Because of this, the abstract of a science paper, although read first, is typically the last part to be written (...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Consumption and Human Behavior

cold, unaware of the needs of others. However, as the individual grows there are other aspects of behaviour that ,may be seen as d...

Street Corner Society Methodology Reviewed

and Social Structure and Social Mobility. The second part deals mainly with the social structure of racketeering; the racketeer in...

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in a Consideration of Whether or Not Cultural Anthropology is a Science

to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

forensic methodologies such as phrenology. While there is some basic variation in regards to terminology and other superficial fac...

Forensic Science and the Question of Validity

way to widespread use of valid science within the criminal justice system; however, the NAS report indicates that this has failed ...

The Politics and Social Views Concerning Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Nanotechnology is a relativity recent science. The writer looks at the way it has been received by discussing the political rheto...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

Science, Religion, and Being Set Free by Untruths in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

multimillionaire Julian Castle, who now resides on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. This impoverished country is also home to...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Forensics/A Career in Criminal Justice

that there is an increasing demand for individuals trained in forensic science, as estimates project that 10,000 new graduates in ...

Forensics and a Personal Code of Ethics

discusses a personal code of ethics that a student might adopt in regards to career in forensic science. Personal code of ...

Applying the Scientific Method: Science in Everyday Life

Observation of the light bulb might also support this hypothesis. In order to test the hypothesis, I would change the light bulb ...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

HEAT, TEMPERATURE AND OTHER QUESTIONS

Heat can be described as a type of energy that flows between two samples of matter due to difference in temperature (Helmenstine, ...

Science and Serendipity

fungi mold began to grow in one of his petri dishes (Lightman, 2006). Fleming realized, of course, that the mold was successful in...

Including Art in Third Grade Science Lesson

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...