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Robert D. Putnam and Mind Play

the result of our communal activity and community sharing has been shrinking over the past forty years and this shrinkage poses a ...

Refutations and Conjectures

to favor a theory, Popper believed, was taking the easy way out; only by finding a theorys flaws and weaknesses could it be consid...

Alan Greenspan

Collective that got Greenspan thinking about "why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral" (Frost, 2002). ...

The Perception of the Self - Explanations from Baumeister and Cooley

and perhaps unhealthy, influence on society. Unstable audience members have fantasy relationships with movie stars and violent fil...

Survival, 'Total Institutions' of Erving Goffman, and Human Development

In five pages various concepts regarding survival are considered in an examination of Erving Goffman's 'total institutions' applie...

Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Neo-Marxism

economic advantage to such a system. In spite of Marxs (1998) negative claims with regard to the influence of capitalism, it can ...

Life and Sociological Works of Max Weber

In twenty pages this paper examines the life and theories of Max Weber in a consideration of his perspectives regarding social str...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

Repeat Offenders and Mandatory Sentences

This paper consists of fifteen pages and examines theories of criminal justice in a consideration of shortcomings and limitations ...

Metaphysics by Aristotle

In seven pages Aristotle's theories regarding metaphysics as described in his text are examined in terms of the ways one is chall...

Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom

evident. By doing this, then, she draws the reader into an inner examination of what one believes and why one believes it. One is ...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

John McMurtry and Harold Innis on Trade Globalization

the society was able to strike a balance between the two types of communication: Innis also felt that social change tended to come...

A Domestic Violence Analysis

men, about 95% of reported domestic abuse cases do involve women (Hyman, Schillinger, & Lo, 1995 as cited in Erickson et al., 1998...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Literature REview on Character Education

95 A.D. (Classics Resources, 2002). Quintilians advice to teachers still holds true today and offers general guidelines that can b...

Affirmative Action, Martin Luther King Jr., and Electoral College

institutions were not capable of doing the same thing at home or to say each of these deaths (King and the two Kennedys) was an is...

Creationism v. Evolution and Different WWW Information Presentations

In six pages the differences in the way the World Wide Web presents information must be considered for a research standpoint with ...

Abortion According to Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

(Larue, 1998). This value determination was given a moral rationalization and basis through interpretations of scripture and relig...

Syllogistic Reasoning and Cognitive Development

In ten pages children's cognitive development is examined in terms of syllogistic reasoning through a structure of introduction, h...

Controversy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

that she got too close to the truth and got herself killed. It is possible that her influence had gotten the president killed. But...

Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley

In five pages this essay examines the primary points the author makes regarding the so called new sciences of dissipative structur...

Evaluation Theory in Academia

This 25 page paper discusses the field of evaluation with regard to academic programs. The paper includes a literature review of p...

Annotated Bibliography on Gifted Education

Ryan helps one to understand how there is nothing inherently wrong with being smart, unless the individual is a child who does not...

Constructivism

that knowledge is something that grows throughout childhood and it is not linear (Silverthorn, 1999). His theories focused on how ...

Analysis of 19th Century European Painting by Lorenz Eitner

to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...

Legalizing Drugs

In ten pages this paper examines various perspective regarding the legalization of drugs in the US. Twelve sources are cited in t...

Children with Special Needs and Education

In three pages this paper discusses special needs children and includes the personal philosophy of the writer regarding educationa...

Abortion: Two Opinions

By having a choice, legally, this creates a society wherein women do not have to hide, try to conduct abortions on their own, or s...

The Aeneid by Virgil II

This is a longer paper with more details regarding The Aeneid by Virgil and consists of four pages....