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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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Ana Celia Zentella's Growing Up Bilingual

In six pages this paper analyzes Zentella's book and focuses upon how language acquisition assists in the gaining of knowledge. T...

Sciences and the Need to Know

turtle who dove under those waters and brought up the mud which would become the land masses of the world. These people observed ...

Management Theorists on Course Setting

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

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...

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...

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...

Confirmation of the Existence of ESP

The girl left it at school the night before the second chance. A 27-month-old girls uncle died the day after Christmas after havi...

Progress of the Space Program

otherwise come into existence if it were not for the inherent desire to be the best. Humans have forever longed to explore ...

Double Helix Importance and the Discovery of Watson and Crick

In fifteen pages this paper examines the discovery of Watson and Crick and what led to the Double Helix and its importance to DNA ...

The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

In five pages knowledge in terms of concept, foundation, and actual application as perceived by Russell is examined within the con...

Process of Learning

control his or her eyes well enough to scan a line of text from side to side, and the physical aspects of the other activities are...

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...

Democracy of Ancient Greece

In this paper consisting of five pages the development of democracy in ancient Greece is considered in terms of the evolution of i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...