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"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Imperialism in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe

and threatens the other into a role of servitude to him, clearly reflective of the imperial mind that believes all other cultures ...

The Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

goals and limitations. The greenhouse effect, that natural regulator of the earths climate, has been altered by the additio...

Eyewitness Testimony Admissibility

Time Estimates: eyewitnesses typically overestimate how long an event took to unfold; 4. Cross-race Bias: eyewitnesses are more ac...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Turing's Theory

means "from the former" and means that we learn from the experiences we have had in the past. "In much of the modern Western tradi...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Interview with an Older Woman

experience as a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appro...

Designing an Interview

a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appropriate. This i...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

Critical Thinking and Logic

is reasonable for us to believe and disbelieve" (Cline). As this indicates, critical thinking utilizes the tools of science and lo...

Strategic Thinking and Fit and Stretch Concept

its linkage and interaction with the functional level strategies has significant performance effects. In other words, the competi...

Energy At The Crossroads by Vaclav Smil

of coal, gas, renewable energy sources and nuclear power. By contrast, however, one who is aware of the damaging impact these res...

3 Lessons in 6 Areas of Strategic Planning

reengineering fame promoted rapid organization-wide change, effectively "blowing up" existing processes and plans in favor of desi...

Critical Thinking and Logic

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

Nursing Programs and Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking Connection

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

Leon Trotsky's Thinking on Nazi Rituals

for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 19...

Practices in Buddhism

wily, and often capitalize on the religions popularity. "For example, seats of power are often located near stupas (commemorative ...

Critical Thinking Skills in the Workplace

tight. The manager now is faced with determining how to get from point A to point B and do so without much help or support from co...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Sustainable Development and Mainstream Development Thinking

way that promotes his own health and welfare; however, from the environmentalists point of view, humanity has damaged and consumed...

An Examination of the Developmental Psychology of Piaget

from another in the same age group due to peer associations, family problems or biological variations. This is certainly a valid m...

Pastoral Counseling

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

Case Solving, Critical Thinking, and Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard

work in tandem with and in spite of each other; only with the aspect of critical thinking can such a case be solved in the manner ...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...