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Learning Disabilities Among Adolescents

This paper consists of an essay containing ten pages that considers the focus of adolescents with learning disabilities from an ed...

Environmental Consciousness and the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

In eight pages this paper assesses the moral and legal responsibilities of Exxon regarding the oil spill with the philosophy of Im...

Christianity and Friedrich Nietzsche

In four pages this paper discusses Christianity as perceived in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and described in On the Gene...

Alasdair MacIntyre's View of Virtue and Academic Dishonesty

In this paper consisting of five pages the philosophy MacIntyre describes in 'After Virtue' is applied to the ethics of academic d...

Autonomy and Immanuel Kant

In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of autonomy within the context of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and in the text Angel...

Dr. Maria Montessori's Educational Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the Montessori educational method in a comparative analysis with Mill's, Hegel's, and Marx's ph...

Learning's Theoretical Components

from personal experience, including elements of culture; 3. the development of learning through the function of the brain is relat...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

Issue of Community Policing

a proactive partnership between law enforcement agencies, community, the DAs office, and public and private groups (Weinstein, 199...

Morality According to Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill

place of divine forces and natural phenomenon is seen in a depersonalized way. The final stage is the third stage of positive scie...

A Consideration of the Question Why Should I be Moral?

In this four page essay the writer turns to the philosophies of August Comte for an answer to the enduring question of why moralit...

Philosophy of Environmentalist Patrick Geddes

In six pages this paper discusses how Patrick Geddes' philosophies revolutionized urban planning by emphasizing nature. Five sour...

Supreme Principle of Morality by Immanuel Kant

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

Relating Kant's Works to the Dismissal of Air Traffic Controllers

In six pages this paper discusses President Ronald Reagan's dismissal of air traffic controllers within the context of Kant's phil...

Orgasmic Disorder Among Females

This paper provides a study of the available literature dealing with female orgasmic disorder. The author outlines diagnosis and ...

Overview of Hospice Care

In twelve pages this research paper presents an overview of hospice care in an examination of program history, basic concept defin...

State v. Nonstate Societies and Conflict Resolution

In seven pages the nation state is traced back to is anthropological roots and how social conflict is dealt with by nonstates and ...

Nullification Crisis and John C. Calhoun

In eleven pages this paper discusses the nullification crisis in a consideration of John C. Calhoun's role and philosophies. Ther...

Rights and Language

In five pages this paper discusses the 'language of rights' within the context of 'Practical Philosophy and the Bill of Rights: P...

Paul Churchland's 'Eliminative Materialism' Philosophy

In three pages the eliminative materialism philosophy of Paul Churchland is discussed. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograph...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Philosophy and Imagination in William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

poets intended to discard the pompous idiom of eighteenth century verse, and to employ the real language of modern men and women -...

Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger

In five pages the differences and similarities between the philosophies of Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger are analyzed. Two sou...

Marijuana Legality and the Views of John Locke and Plato

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...

Western Enlightenment and the Philosophies of John Locke

In five pages this paper discusses how Locke's philosophies contributed to the Enlightenment of the West in an examination of how ...

Acceptance of Either Idealism or Realism as a Life Philosophy

A report consisting of six pages considers the idealism and realism philosophies and the reasons why one might be more acceptable ...

Existentialism and Phenomenology

In nine pages this paper discusses how a philosophy class would teach phenomenology and existentialist theories by answering quest...

Life and Death Concepts as Perceived by Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

Nature as Analyzed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In a research paper that consists of six pages Aristotle's nature philosophy as described in Physics and Metaphysics is considered...

The Natural Philosophy of Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages Aristotle's natural philosophy is considered within the context of the contemporary world in t...