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Fluid Dynamics - An Overview

be a tendency for deviation when the extremes are in opposition to one another, such as with a small water height and a large hole...

Social Psychology - An Overview

a synthetic viewpoint along the nature vs nurture spectrum, holding that while some types of personality might be oriented towards...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Pancreatic Cancer and Gene Mutations

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at gene therapies for pancreatic cancer. The role of the KRAS gene is examined through...

Reading and Perceiving Color

The time it takes individuals to enunciate a color when presented with the written word representing that color can vary according...

Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

Watching Employees to Increase Productivity

know theyre being watched? The obvious answer would seem to be yes, because no one wants the boss to think theyre "goofing off." T...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

Stanford Prison Experiment

people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular t...

Amish Teenagers and Their Distinct Subculture

beliefs of the Amish revolve around the Bible, the major tenets of which include adult baptism, separation from the world, simplic...

Discussion of the Scientific Method

sunny window and the other cup was placed outside that it received direct sunlight. In both cases, the plants grew straight up unt...

Social Surrogacy Hypothesis

emotional ties to the characters on the television. One assumption made is that the social surrogacy hypothesis is valid. One wr...

Feeling A Lack of Control Over One's Environment

2001). Later, he placed new dogs with no harnesses in and unharnessed the original dogs and provided an escape. The new dogs look...

Self Sufficiency Among Ex-Slaves

off the coast of South Carolina served as the location of the Port Royal Experiment. Although it was not planned to occur as it d...

Human Experimentation during the Nazi Era

government subsequently published fourteen guidelines governing human experimentation that provided detailed and strict precaution...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

Soap Operas And Language

which is precisely why other more universal methods of visual and auditory stimuli are used in tandem. Soap operas are particular...

Peter Dear: “Miracles, Experiments and the Ordinary Course of Nature”

the 17th century, a time when religion was a powerful force in society, and when going against church teaching was considered here...

Illusory Conjunction Experiment

elements relate to a comparative view of visual factors within a field of vision, which can create different responses to the foca...

AI Zombie Creation and the Physical Possibilities This Represents

In five pages this paper the pros and cons of zombie creation through artificial intelligence with Real Robots and the Missing Tho...

Visual Art And Brain Development In Children

Art is such a universally recognized method of this statement that there exist no barriers with regard to interpretation. Infants...

The Effects of Daily Watering on Grass Growth and Color

The owner of House B might use fertilizer, while the owner of House B may not. The soil conditions might also differ. The owner ...

Bristol-Meyers and the Ethics of AIDS Research

This 3 page paper discusses the ethical implications of Bristol-Meyers’ use of African villagers in an AIDS drug testing experimen...

The Theme of Obsession in “Frankenstein”

father, who dismisses them as "trash" with no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered ...

The Psychological Consequences of Prison Life

available through the work of the well known psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. During the 1970s, he conducted experiments with a mock...

MEALWORM EXPERIMENT AND WRITE-UP

statistically significant. We also discussed some limitations, which involved temperature at which the mealworms were fed and time...

Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

"The Last Emperor" - Psychological Elements

"develop a healthy sense of omnipotence which will naturally be frustrated as the child matures" (D. W. Winnicott). Because Pu Yi...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...