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American Family Changes and the Response of Schools' Changing Role

the child, and this comes through in an essay or a complaint by the student, the school is in immediate contact with social servic...

World Knowledge and the Mind

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

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

Substance According to John Locke

philosophy and political theory has been incalculable. Substance In the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke carefully ...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Animals and Minds

In five pages this paper examines if animals have minds with the differences and similarities that exist between the mental facult...

Social Forces and Girl Cultures

a "Cabbage Patch doll, a Nancy Drew novel, a recent edition of Seventeen magazine or a television show...the commodities of girls ...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

The Quiet Room from a Critical Perspective

sent home with the "flu", Schillers research later in life discovered that her camp records stated that she had a mental breakdown...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Capturing Readers' Minds

rather dull and dismal life? In this land are animals that talk, evil witches which control people and animals, and most important...

Success, Intelligence, and Money

which seems to reinforce this notion. Contemporary philosopher and lecturer Jacob Needleman observes, "Money is like a mirror to ...

Realist Theory and 911 Terrorist Attacks

the very opposite of democracy which strives for peaceful relations - evidenced by an absence of war and tyranny (Democratic Peace...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Contrasting and Comparing German Dictator Adolf Hitler and Greek God Hades

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

Ideas on Culture, Evolution, and the Human Mind

a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fa...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Fictional Debate Between Robert Putnam, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Cornel West

Contemporary society is characterized by a common agreement that our society is in an upheaval. Opinions as to the cause...

Armstrong and Descartes on the Problem Between the Mind and Body

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Discussion of Freudian Theories

In five pages this paper assesses such theories of Sigmund Freud as the theories of seduction and fixation, the 3 mind components,...

Comparing Two Opinions of Sexuality

The writer compares and contrasts two books, The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom and Toward a Feminist Theory of the S...

Relationship Between the Unconscious Mind of Sigmund Freud and the Surrealism of Salvador Dali

In six pages this paper explores the connection between Freud's 'unconscious mind' theories and Dali's surrealistic painting style...

Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...