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Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Culture of Poverty

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Marx, Goethe, Galileo, and Machiavelli on Belief, Identity, Nature, and Power

In fifteen pages this report examines how these theorists perceive these concepts as reflected in their respective writings. Five...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Consideration of Biblical Theology in the Old Testament

In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...

Emile Durkheim's Sociological Contributions

In six pages this research paper discusses the sociological contributions of theorist Emile Durkheim. Six sources are cited in th...

Motivations and Personalities of Serial Killers

has also been pointed out that those with active or high fantasy prone imaginations are more apt to be able to become serial kille...

Adult Development and Life Events

In five pages several theorists are incorporated into this examination of a personal event in an individual's life such as startin...

Management Theory According to Taylor and Fayol

(1999). Ever since Taylors methods of "working smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for gre...

Structural Functionalism and 4 Sociological Readings

reality, public opinion and opposition that makes a specific action a crime, not the act in and of itself (1984). This is an insig...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, and B.F. Skinner

reinforcement, at least to an extent. II. Carl Rogers 1. Who is he? Some have said he was the most influential psychologist in h...

Global Politics, Imbalance of Power, and Theories of Neoconservatism and Neorealism

that we must act not only to preserve world peace but to aggressively protect our own integrity. Kagan (2003) contends that the U...

Theoretical Perspectives on Work Culture and Sociology

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

Krickett Carpenter Case and Its Implications

lost his or her memory, only to meet up with the same people again? There are unusual stories about coincidences and how people wi...

Comparative Views of Marx, Mill, and Rousseau

of restriction on freedoms provided by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people ...

Theories on Conflict

"broadened the Marxian interpretation of social stratification by introducing the concept of status groups parallel to but analyti...

Children and Play

their child, where the mother has a greater knowledge of child development they are also more likely to place the play level at sl...

Life and Work of B.F. Skinner

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, Hull

highly a person is motivated the higher will be that persons performance. It is difficult to implement a motivation program in any...

Dreams and Their Psychological Importance

the views of Winson (1990), as well as Gottesmann (2002) and Schulze(2004), can be valuable in determining the link between the t...

International Environment and Acquiring a Second Language

In five page this paper examines ESL issues and the impact of globalization with theorists such as Jim Cummins and a critique of a...

Post-Colonialism and the Poems of Bhatt and Das

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

Identity Issues and Gender

of philosophy, identity is a concept that goes rather deep. It relates not only to who a person is--his or her ethnicity, history,...

Karl Marx and the Criticism of Karl Popper

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

Learning Perspectives

functional literacy in the workplace. The learning process, then, is conscious and applicable, and can be understood relative to ...

Questions on 10th Century Psychology

as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings. In Interpretati...