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Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Action Research and Education

In five pages this essay subdivided into 2 sections considers the merits of action research in a new math class for high school st...

Application of Forensics in Explosives Investigations

This paper examines the various applications of forensic science in cases involving explosives. This eight page paper has seven ...

Elementary Schools' Innovative Programs

In five pages this research paper discusses program innovations for American schools that assist reading, science, and math educat...

Gifted Elementary Students and Science Instruction

In fourteen pages this paper examines gifted students and various approaches to science instruction. In the bibliography there a...

Hands On Instruction Increased Through Group Investigation

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses US test scores in a discussion of how in science and biology classrooms the group ...

Scientific Skills and Their Proper Uses

In five pages this paper assesses the observation made by sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, ''Scientists should restrain their tendency ...

Experiential Learning Essay: Plant Science and the Floral Industry

was the obvious fact that not everything grows equally well in all conditions. That means that a florist will be able to prepare s...

Alan Turing: Life and Accomplishments

"whether accordingly it could be released from matter by death" (Hodges, 1995). These reflections led him into concepts of 20th ce...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Falsifiability and Karl Popper

at the time of his own writing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). What Popper was doing was going against the commonly a...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

The Science of Consciousness

not sound in this matter due to the inability to gather all necessary data prior to the reduction (Cooney, 1999). Without the cor...

Uses of Technology in the Classroom

in order for the children of today to be "effective leaders and productive citizens" of tomorrow, they will require confidence in...

Scientology and Its Impact on Actor Tom Cruise

its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

Cross Membrane Transport and Molecular Mixtures in Joe Alper's Article 'Drug Delivery Breaching the Membrane'

The passage of drugs through the bodys membranes is affected by the process of osmosis and the osmotic pressure which builds up on...

Beauty, the Sublime, Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Burke

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

An Article on Quantum Mechanics Reviewed

of two such photons can preordain the result of the third measurement - even in the case of nonlocality, or rather, even if the pa...

Science and 'Realistic' Computer Modeling

of humanity in ways that are sometimes incalculable. From the time of the scientific revolution, the extent to which technologica...

Methodology and Theory in Crisis Intervention

the goal of problem resolution is unattainable, or that the problem may be outside of their capabilities or their ability to cope....

History of Cloning

Scientists cloned another Jersey calf using the same "standard cell-culturing techniques as compared to the method most commonly u...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Consumption and Human Behavior

cold, unaware of the needs of others. However, as the individual grows there are other aspects of behaviour that ,may be seen as d...

Street Corner Society Methodology Reviewed

and Social Structure and Social Mobility. The second part deals mainly with the social structure of racketeering; the racketeer in...