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Achievement in Web-Based Courses

used This study utilized a participant group recruited from a co-educational public university located in the southeastern sectio...

Nursing Education - Concept Mapping And Critical Thinking

mapping. This is not a new approach but it is one that has gained a great deal of attention in the last several years. Concept map...

Scientific Thought

phrase "its not rocket science" is used to suggest that a certain topic is not that difficult, implying that science is quite diff...

Nursing Case Study & Critical Thinking Styles

familys emotional state through observation and empathic listening. They can explore their own emotions through self-examination a...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

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...

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...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

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 ...

“Blink”: Gut Feelings and the Diagnosis of Heart Conditions

(one of the complicating factors in coronary artery disease) on an annual basis (Woods 27). Unfortunately, even more go untreated...

Decisions in Paradise

founder. When the potential outcomes are considered, and a preferable one is identified the decision-making process can then move ...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

Global Warming

much carbon dioxide. But, in one article it is interestingly uncovered that a new source of global warming may be a serious culpri...

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking And Language

That such testing procedures expect the same scholastic performance from all students no matter their cultural or academic backgro...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

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 ...

Psychodynamic Behaviorist Humanistic Social-Cognitive

id, ego, and superego. The id is about the base desires of the human, the superego acts like a conscious striving for the highest ...

Critical Thinking and Perceptual Blockades

logic (formal and informal), critical thinking is generally considered to be part of the informal variety. When a person employs c...

Carl Jung's 4 Styles of Solving Problems

Jung recognized that personality type affects the way that an individual learns and deals with these transitions (Borg and Shapiro...

Criminology in the Postmodern Era

with power and crime: "Not only can the power of the word be exposed as creating domination; in addition, one means of resistance ...

Grammar and Thought

is evidence that even pre-verbal toddlers listen to statements that are grammatically correct while tuning out those which are not...

A Case Study in Hospital Critical Thinking

however, without first obtaining better control of interorganizational practices. Indeed, the situation at present is not only ch...

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...

The Importance of Critical Thinking

The importance of critical thinking in modern society cannot be overestimated. This paper discusses critical thinking, what it is ...

Using Critical Thinking to Tell Truth from Lies

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

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...

Systems Thinking Discussion Questions

a solid business case - i.e., saving money - for approaching decisions and projects from the system perspective. If efficient ope...

Persuasion and its Relation To Critical Thinking

than it must be true (Kemerling, 2001). The most recent example of this is the current war that the US is fighting in Iraq. Presid...