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World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

American Dreams and American Cities

that -- unlike the European countries, from which so many nineteenth century immigrants to the US left behind - the upper classes...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

Personal Truths and Beliefs

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

America and Attitudes About the Middle East

that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...

Emotional Intelligence and the Acquiring of Knowledge

Moon, 1998, p. 743). Just as individuals have different levels of intellectual ability, so too, do individuals have different leve...

Civil War and Role of Irish Americans

In ten pages this paper examines the Irish Americans' role during the Civil War. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Vietnam and American Politics During the Turning Point of 1968

achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...

Healthy Living Changes

In two pages ways in which to improve Americans' healthy living are discussed with public health screenings recommended in terms o...

American Values, J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin

In six pages this paper examines how de Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer and Franklin's Autobiography reveal the true ...

Impact of the American Revolution on the Subsequent French Revolution

In fourteen pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in order to demonstrate the differences between the American and F...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...

Knowing in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age and strange birds in faery forests" (Maupassant). She is very unhappy and cr...

Blind Oedipus

In seven pages this essay discusses how Oedipus was able to 'see' certain things after blinding himself, from this knowledge he ga...

Ignorance is Bliss Theme in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

Zen of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In four pages this paper examines On the Road from a Buddhist perspective of a symbolic journey toward nirvana through knowledge. ...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

The American Dream, Willy Loman, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

The Individual and Society in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American society orchestrates Willy Loman's downfall are considered in terms...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Coping Strategies and Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the field of nursing is discussed in terms of breast cancer, coping strategies, and how nurs...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

Higher Education Trend of Attracting the Older Student

30 years of age and 70 percent of all part-time students are 25 or older (Ludden, 1996, p. 2). The number of part-time students ha...

Management Theorists on Course Setting

In eight pages course setting management theories are considered that support the statement, 'Knowledge of basic management theory...

Latin American Film Series for Americans Creation Proposal

In eleven pages this paper proposes a Latin American historical and cultural film series for Americans in an overview of various u...

Future Education and Computers

In ten pages future education is contemplated with a discussion of case studies and consideration of such topics as interactive me...