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Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Sidney Jourard's Psychological Theories

the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...

Libertarianism and Hard Determinism

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

Politics and Ethics

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

Revolution Justification Argued by John Locke

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

Ethical Perspectives on Factory Farm Raising of Animals for Human Consumption

with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

The Justin Ellsworth Case (Analysis)

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Genesis 12:10-20 And 20:1-18

inflicts diseases on the Pharaoh and his household How God is manifested: * God comes to Abimelech in a dream * God condemns Abi...

Ethics in a System of Inquiry

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Akhenaten: Heretic Not Religious

innovative leader whose combined perspective and actions serve to bring about positive change. While in one negative sense, Akhen...

Teaching the Bible’s Stories to Young Children

most accepted frameworks of cognitive child development is the one formulated by Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget. Based on hi...

Children And God

child in his level, a necessity that is much easier said than done. Jesus proposed this mental transition as a means by which to ...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...