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Personal Reflection on Science in Daily Life

PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is reflected in many aspects of day-to-day life. The scientific method...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

Social Sciences and Qualitative Research

In five pages qualitative research is designed and then is applied to studying the social sciences. Seventeen sources are cited i...

Analyzing the Theory of Rational Choice

In five pages this research paper applies the rational choice theory to the social sciences and discusses basic points along with ...

A Study of Aluminum

In eight pages this paper can be helpful to the student of science in its exploration of the history, properties, uses, and other ...

Peabody Museum Collection of Mineralogy

In five pages this paper examines the science of mineralogy and considers the important collection housed at Yale University's Pea...

Overview of Environmental Sciences

In nine pages environmental sciences are considered in this overview of history and contemporary concerns. Seven sources are cite...

Natural Selection and Genetic Drift / Quick Change, Quicker Reversal

In ten pages this paper discusses quick shifts in support of genetic drift as opposed to natural selection in science. Eight sour...

Abraham Maslow's Religion, Values, and Peak Experiences

In five pages this essay considers this 1964 text in terms of its important points and discusses religion and science as being int...

Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science and Karl Popper's A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems

that seem to drive us to distrust change and the inevitable occurrences that are associated with such. "We seem fixated on structu...

Field of Science and Girls

and in the educational systems of this country regarding the paucity of women in scientific fields. A quick Internet search or s...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...

Western Culture and Greek Civilization's Impact

In fifteen pages this research paper examines Western culture in terms of the impact of ancient Greece regarding principles of dem...

'Psy Fi' Genre and its Meaning

In five pages this report considers the science fiction or Psy Fi genre in an examination of texts written by Richard Matheson, Fr...

Different Approaches to Science

In four pages this paper examines scientific experimentation within the contexts of Richard Pirsig's research and the text Science...

Is Knowledge True, or False, or Does It Reside Somewhere in the Middle?

would provide an explanation for celestial motion (Greer 356). For hundreds of years, Newtons laws of physics remained unchalleng...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Evaluation of Greg Bear's Blood Music

The science fiction novel is analyzed. A summary is included. The conclusion of the book is carefully evaluated. This six page pa...

Edward Lee Thorndike and Charles Darwin on Behavioral Science

In nine pages Thorndike's and Darwin's theories of behavioral science are discussed and contrasted and compared with contemporary ...

The SPSS Database and Empirical Political Analysis

This paper examines the use of Statistical Program for the Social Sciences (SPSS) database and how it can be use for political ana...

Applied Science and a Model for Government Reinvention

In ten pages this paper considers the principles for government reinvention through the application of science as presented in Osb...

Suburbia and the Community Survey

This research report focuses on American suburbia and local politics. One municipality is the focus of attention. Various issues a...

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...

A Review of The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The writer reviews The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, in which the scientists challenges many current theories. The writer arg...

Evolutionary Biology and Skepticism

In five pages this paper discusses the problems with trying to classify or categorize evolutionary biology in a consideration of h...

A Science Of Biology History

This is an overview consisting of five pages that traces the development of biological sciences from 500 BC until the present day ...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Self Identity and Nelson Mandela

quiet demeanor. And yet, this quiet, intelligent man has managed to accomplish great things in his life. He is known the world o...

Science of Sociology

the status of a full scientific enterprise. The author states that its essential flaw is its failure to accept its own limitations...