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Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Overview of Knowledge Management

in such a way as to be accessible and available to those who need it. Knowledge management is, like the term suggests, a necessary...

Behavioral Treatment Methods in Self Injurious Behavior In the Autistic and Mentally Retarded - Treatment Effectiveness and Implications for Further Research

target a specific behavior rather than self-injury as a whole (Edelson, 2006). Each self-injurous behavior is likely to have spec...

"Children Placed At Risk For Learning And Behavioral Difficulties" - Brief Analysis

be learned about keeping children with the potential of being categorized as at risk out of the statistical pool by prescreening a...

Michael Wood: "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great"

324 B.C. (Michael Wood: In the footsteps of Alexander the Great). Alexanders expedition was "a turning point in human history ... ...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Self-Realization And The Liberal Arts: Assessing The Link

perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...

Article Analysis/Evidence-Based Practice

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

Quanah Parker

advantage of the Comanche. Quanah grew up a Comanche warrior. Even then, however, he knew of the world of the...

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...

Future Education and Computers

In ten pages future education is contemplated with a discussion of case studies and consideration of such topics as interactive me...

Managing the Classroom Through Observation

multiple examples, then they were asked to point out parts in their stories that reflected each of the steps demonstrated. The cla...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

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...

Management Theorists on Course Setting

In eight pages course setting management theories are considered that support the statement, 'Knowledge of basic management theory...

Contrast and Comparison of Queens and Brooklyn

In five pages this essay contrasts and contrasts these two NYC boroughs based upon the writer's own opinions, observations, and kn...

Professional and Knowledge Role Fulfilled by Criminal Justice

The profession and knowledge role fulfilled by criminal justice is examined in twelve pages. Eighteen sources are cited in the bi...

Knowledge and the Roles of Beauty and Art

in a commercial seed catalog. I thought they were great, Hickey enthuses. Those paintings were the opposite of anything anybody ...

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...

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...

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...

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...