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TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

Intelligence Theories and Philosophy

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes

careful to not be blinded by the bells and whistles of technology or the "gee-whiz" factor. Instead, they must be able to determin...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Platonist v. Sophist World Perspectives

A creative fictitious dialogue is developed between a Platonist and a Sophist in this paper consisting of six pages which emphasiz...

Oliver Sacks—An Anthropologist on Mars

totally impossible for a normally sighted person. When offered the chance to possibly have his color vision restored, he turned it...

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...

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...

Education and an Application of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Perspective on Knowledge

In five pages this paper discusses how Rousseau's views regarding learning and knowledge can be practically applied to contemporar...

Muslim Women - Oppressed

injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...

Knowledge Creation and Tesco; The Successful Use of Technology and a Loyalty Scheme

1. Introduction The commercial environment is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies need to find ways of keeping and then...

The Relationship Between Organizational Learning and Organizational Knowledge

that others can label as being attuned to learning from events that have occurred in the past. A learning organization is one tha...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

Changing Roles Of Accountants With E-Commerce

technology, accountants must often take an active role in: * Providing other information to managers that goes beyond financial da...

Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Montessori, Piaget

experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...

Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge

(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...

Not Everything that is Learned is Contained in Books

they can teach a person and how they can assist a person in their own development of identity and growth. Books are powerful and...

Knowledge from Information

business processes. It also is necessary for providing decision support based on analytical operations. Data "that facilitates k...

Knowledge Management Implementation; Two Cases

defines knowledge management as; "the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-ba...

Epistemological Issues In Research

is more discreet because it is based on information that one gains or obtains from persons who are considered experts. This type i...

IBM Proposal for a Knowledge Management Program

nineteenth century, and develops through the twentieth century, always based in the development of new technologies. IBM have been...

The Value of Personal Knowledge over Classroom Instruction

the Quran. For this young woman, the headscarf is not only a sign of her faith, but a political protest that stems from the lesson...

Organizational Learning at Airbus

was known as Airbus Industrie GIE at this point. With the consortium it was necessary to find new headquarters and in 1974 headqua...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Roderick M. Chisholm's Knowledge Theory

In six pages Chisholm's theory of knowledge and the reliance on memory and the senses as sources of this knowledge are discussed. ...

Changes in Business Employee Hiring Approaches

for positions at lower levels and a wide range of costs is evident." Yet, unfortunately many Human Resource professionals overloo...

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Knowing the Future by Knowing the Past

In five pages this paper provides support for the statement 'Without knowledge of the past, we would have no knowledge at all.' S...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...