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Renewable Energy: Wind Power

energy are necessarily highly aware of the fact that reaping the power of the wind creates a "landscape" presence that some critic...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON FAMILY FUNCTION VS. DYSFUNCTION

researchers have been able to tie environmental factors into family dysfunction; demonstrating, for example, that families in whic...

Competing in the International Environment

choose this strategy, if there is limited international demand then cost of setting up new facilitative may not be viable, may hav...

Germany's Guilt as Empowerment

about what German guilt was and what it was not, and what the purpose of it was. This argument continues today. Jaspers said Germa...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

The Debate Concerning Nature Versus Nurture

On the other hand, it is also true that genetics do play a part and this is something that has come up in recent years. That is, r...

Issues of Capital Structure

at the theories regarding the way that capital structure may be determined, looking at ideas such as pecking order and trade-off t...

Capt. Cook's Death/Sahlins-Obeyesekere Debate

the issues and points involved, this writer/tutor will offer the student investigating this subject suggestions on how this debate...

The Value of Internal Development

no need for security. This loan is made to begin some sort of income-generating enterprise, regardless of size. This may be a smal...

Age old question: Build v. Buy (software)

balance must be made between price and value. One of the most promising options is the purchase of a portability option off...

Morality of Stem Cell Research

of productive, almost miraculous ways; however, there are also problematic moral issues involved due to debates concerning the poi...

Doctrine of the Trinity and Saint Augustine

either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' by Jorge Luis Borges

the author - harbor the repression of ones unconscious, a theory many believe to be the most significant milestone of his career. ...

Contemporary Western Culture and Humanities

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

Concept of the Human Imagination

What is Imagination? Imagination is "the power of the mind to consider things which are not present to the senses, and to consid...

Public Administration Evolution

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Personal Exploration Through Biography

that Jean Edward Smith agrees with this assessment, but he believes biography is an art form that should take into account the anc...

B.C. Johnson's Philosophy

to the theist these two elements are not inherently intertwined with one another. The baby did burn in the fire and the baby will...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

Renaissance Art and Philosophy Integration

In three pages this paper examines how art and philosophy were integrated during the Renaissance. Two sources are cited in the bi...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...

State's Role and Economic Liberalism

economic system. In other words, this economic liberalism (also known as neo-liberalism) claims that markets function best when th...

Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

Johnson, Plantinga, and Hicks on Soul Making and Free Will

man defines himself as moral, good, and soulful (Hick). God has defined a purpose for humanity that is essential to mans forma...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Narrative Self Concepts of Paul Ricoeur

Marcel, Heidegger, Aristotle and Kant(Thompson 1981). Ricoeur believes that in order to get to the bottom line, which is to know o...