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Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Canada and Financial Risk

use. In this way however, hedging and conversion means less impact on profits because of volatile exchange rates. Translation ...

Children Between Ages Six and Nine and Maria Montessori's Educational Theories

walked across the room -- the child stopped, walked across the room to the same point, and then came back and finished the work....

Experience and Education by John Dewey

its time schedules, and classification systems and rules (18). Here, due to this, Dewey points out that schools are therefore mark...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Medieval Individuality and Leadership

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Human Brain's Recognition of Objects

The process is a mathematical comparison which equates to a comparison of graphs with label different features (Garey and. Johnson...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

The Creation of Wealth According to Adam Smith and His 'Invisible Hand'

point is that to Smith, individuals must have the incentive to work. Some argue that during the latter part of the twentieth centu...

Lesson Plan Analysis for High School

used all six of these elements: 1.) situation: the teacher provided multiple opportunities for students to explain what they felt,...

Karl Marx and Emilie Durkheim on Division of Labor Concepts

unskilled. Many of the skills they acquired were specific. From there, new trades were born. The workers in society were transform...

Youth and Children Psychosexual Development's Influential Concepts

the inherent dangers associated with intercourse; as such, when choosing to enter into these relationships, there is a heightened ...

Golden Mean, Irrational Numbers & Fibonacci Series

a infinite number of decimal places (Sabine). The Fibonacci series is useful in calculating Phi because Phi is "equal to the ratio...

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...

Rules of Evidence: Questions and Answers

the suspect." What happens is that the investigator will either intentionally or unintentionally lead the witness. He may say som...

Effective Project Management

of the buyer. There is usually a particular method of creating the estimate. At first, a macro estimate is made, but down the ro...

Dan Brown and "The Madonna of the Rocks"

This 3 page paper discusses the painting "The Madonna of the Rocks" that hangs in the Louvre with regard to the hand gestures of M...

Supervision & Teacher Evaluation

(Sparks and Hirsh). Four operational principles are instrumental in achieving results-driven education. These are having "1) clari...

Market Demand Forecasting and Marketing Simulation I

worth everything theyve directly paid for it. That was the leading reason for keeping the price lower than it could have be...

GE Goes for Social Responsibility

as environmentalism to the way in which corporate governance may be taking place, to issues such as human rights and broader issue...

A Case Study in Comparative Advantage

lowest cost and then trade for what it needs. For Phil the cost of 1 report is 4 phone calls and the cost fo 4 phone calls is 1 re...

The Holistic Universe by Talbot

the work, Talbot draws on Bohms finds. He also writes, in relation to how the theory relates to a supreme being, the following: " ...

Grief Counseling in High Schools

influenced by a variety of factors, such as family and cultural background, life experiences and environmental influences. Noppe a...

Sensory Perceptions and Descartes' Argument

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

Questions Pertaining to Economics Discussed

hardly noteworthy, it negatively affects the consumers purchasing power when everything that the consumer purchases is undergoing ...

Orem, Peplau and Neumann/Concept of Person

A 3 page research paper that compares and contrasts the way in which nursing theorists Hildegard Peplau, Dorothea Orem, and Betty ...