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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...

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...

Richard Rodriguez's 'The Achievement of Desire'

In five pages this paper analyzes the essay by Richard Rodriguez entitled 'The Achievement of Desire' in which learned and experie...

Intellect in the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

people were gradually becoming restless in light of many realities. The conditions in Europe were not good, nor had they been for ...

A Self Examination and Personal History

In a paper of twenty pages family histories and self examination are explored in terms of how they mold personal respectives and h...

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...

T. Coraghessan Boyle's Carnal Knowledge

Alena and Jim's relationship is the focus of this analysis of T. Coraghessan Boyle's Carnal Knowledge consisting of five pages. F...

Cancer Detection and Breast Self Examination

In an analysis of the study, throughout 1994, doctors had diagnosed breast cancer in 144 of the women getting regular screenings a...

Argument of Illusion by George Berkeley

In five pages Berkeley's illusion concepts and arguments as represented in Principles of Human Knowledge and the Three Dialogues b...

Is Knowledge True, or False, or Does It Reside Somewhere in the Middle?

would provide an explanation for celestial motion (Greer 356). For hundreds of years, Newtons laws of physics remained unchalleng...

Bombing of Coventry, England and Winston Churchil

of the city of Coventry goes back to the Middle Ages, and was first settled in the seventh century (Longmate 13). Prior to the 194...

Conceptualization and Teaching

In eleven pages this paper discusses how preteaching conceptualization for a specific child group can be organized as it pertains ...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Historical and Contemporary Religious Responses to Science and Technology

empires that would endure for centuries. These initial ties would culminate in a genuinely global integration of human cultures. ...

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. ...

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...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...

Axiological, Ontological, and Epistemological Arguments Featured in The Republic by Plato

In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

Cave Allegory in The Republic by Plato II

or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...

Sun Significance in The Republic by Plato

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

Reality Concept of Contemporary Science and Plato's 'Forms' Theory

In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...

Epistemology Change Approaches

In ten pages epistemology or the theory of knowledge is examined in terms of its theoretical viability. Eight sources are cited i...

Human Knowledge and Three Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

Returning to the Past in the First and Second Discourses of Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper considers the First and Second Discourses of Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of social perceptio...