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Essays 271 - 300

Virginia Woolf and Ibsen

When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...

Psychoanalytic Theory

ego as an entity unable to maintain control over itself; social and individual psychology are one and the same; organizations are ...

Positioning

fewer resources the company has the greater the attractiveness of a niche market due to the way that the market operates and the a...

Creative Intelligence And Mental Models

is the ability to go beyond the traditional by generating new and innovative ideas (Gavarny, 2007). The use of creative intellig...

Autism: How Developmental Psychology Can Inform Practice

and after the training sessions, with results being virtually the same (Chin et al, 2000). Theory of mind, the ability to attribu...

Effective Communication and Language Barrier

these people as humanitarian gestures. This signaled to these people that other nations, despite differences in culture and langua...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Exploring the Concept of Prejudice

the worst of the bunch: "That settles it." This person will not engage in any sort of debate or discussion; for him, if its in the...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

"A Beautiful Mind" - Six Concepts

the disease from ultimately overtaking his very being; rather, in a quirk that even science cannot fully explain, he is able to se...

The Great Depression and the 2009 Economic Recession

overnight. As Smiley observes, in the years preceding the Great Depression, "the United States had achieved a higher degree of co...

The Divided Mind Concept

he sees red, and at the same time, in his other stream, he sees blue. More generally, he could be having at the same time two seri...

Creative Intelligence And Decision Making

styles. Creative Intelligence tells us "how our mind uses mental codes, over which we have no control, to determine how informatio...

A Beautiful Mind

abuse (cocaine, alcohol and amphetamines), brain tumor, Huntingtons disease and Alzheimers (Durand et al, 2006). III. PORTRAYAL ...

Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Creating Self-Directed Learners

inspiration, but students who chose to work with historians, research through speaking with participants in history (e.g. people p...

Vital Impact Neurotransmitters Have Upon Mind And Body

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

Therapeutic Massage Good For Mind And Body

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

The relationship between mind and body

say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...

Society of Cohesion in Montessori Education

outcomes of normalization (Dabare, 2008). The child is capable of working cooperatively in a group respecting other childrens idea...

Intent and the Classification of Murder

When a death occurs because of an automobile it is tragic....

Rene Descartes, Philosophy and Psychology

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

How Minds Can Change as We Age

certain functions. What is different between todays research and that of decades ago is that scientists now believe that a person ...

Tai Chi and Spirituality

beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...

Propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

the people would be controlled by propaganda. They were fed the things they wanted to hear. Of cause, it is much easier to lead pe...

Moral Relativism Versus Universalism

in recent years that attention to the battered woman has been given. Economically, women continue to be paid less for the same wor...