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Educational Philosophy

their place of origin or starting language capabilities. Multiculturalism is a component of my educational philosophy because it ...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Depression in Elderly Women

This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...

Personal Philosophy for Counseling

to achieve real and positive change in their lives. When writing a personal essay based on this guide, the student should adapt ...

Problem Solution: M-Core

order to address the conflict that occurred and introduce potential solutions, M-Core had to assess the underlying reasons for the...

The Significance of the Cross, Third Stage, in The Pilgrim’s Progress

him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden" (Bunyan Third Stage). He learned, however, that his own burden...

Interview with an Elderly Individual

ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner and Philosophy

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

China Changes in The Bridegroom Stories by Ha Jin

and the job of teaching the children fell to the grandparents" (Social Revolution and Students), which forced people to become mor...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Pre 1983 Kukulewa Villagers Community Transformation, Experiences, and Ideas

in which villagers handled that particular designation of modernity with regard to their once-cooperative relationships. Creating...

Comparative Analysis of the Disciplines of Philosophy, Literature, Religion, and Science

most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...

Similarities and Differences Between Buddhism and Confucianism as Experienced in China

there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....

Defining and Managing Diversity in the Workplace

different races or ethnicities on the payroll. It has to do with gender, age, background, nationality, talent, skills, knowledge l...

Urban Life and Women

than the experience a modern urban man of her age may come upon. A modern urban man may experience a time in his life where he fee...

Greed and the Disaster at Mt. Everest

Consultants in order to consider the commercialization aspect of Everests summit (Magnuson , 1998). The expedition had paying clie...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Wartime and Ethical Considerations

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of John Rawls and John Stuart Mill

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

Flawed Political Arguments in The Prince

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...