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Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

Rational or Romantic Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...

Research Proposal on the Connection Between Reducing Crime and Private Security

in order to reach a conclusion. 2. Theoretical Background To develop research that looks at if what and how private security ma...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

Plato's 'Republic' and a Consideration of Rational Intellect and Emotions

good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

China and Crime

with the long iron rod that completed the stations armory. Not more than an hour later, he had been killed by a shotgun bullet fi...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud on Civilizations' Rational and Irrational Thought

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

Society and Explanations Offered by Sociological Theories

that tries to explain incidences in daily life in respect to resources like money, time, organizational skills and so forth. Ones ...

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 ...

Overview of R.E.T.

In eleven pages Rational Emotive Therapy is presented in an overview that considers its prison system applicability. Seven source...

Empirical and Rational Philosophies in Candide by Voltaire

This is a direct attack on Leibniz, who was regarded as a scholar in the fields of metaphysics, theology, and the cosmos. The phi...

Sigmund Freud versus Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts the perspectives of Freud and Nietzsche regarding how human lives are impacted by instincts tha...

God's Existence and Reason

In eight pages this paper examines God's existence in a consideration of philosophy's rational arguments. Four sources are cited ...

Subgrouping, Quality Control, and Statistical Process Control

In five pages this paper discusses control charts and their effects in an overview of the rational behind quality control subgroup...

Strategic Management Model

In six pages this research paper considers strategic management in a historical overview that includes the pros and cons of a rati...

The Application of Self-Analysis: Rational Emotive Thinking

and could not get it back. I felt like I was a bad person because I had put the project off so long. I became depressed because ...

Budgeting with Algebra

In this case, one might look at the case example of an average University of Phoenix student, or indeed any student at any of the ...

REBT/Treatment for Alcoholism

ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...

Ethnic Conflict and Comparative Politics

In ten pages two conceptual methods of examining and explaining what causes ethnic conflict resulting from comparative politics ar...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Criminological Theory

People commit crimes for a diversity of reasons. A considerable body of research has been devoted to explaining those...

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

Human Relations and Professional Burnout

In a paper consisting of seven pages this paper discusses human relations professionals' workplace burnout from Adlerian, rational...

Behavior That is Rational vs. Irrational

Jason was only seeking his own gratification. He wanted to have it all. His intent was to gain both power and social standing by...

Article Analysis: Approaches to Ethnic Conflict

This 5 page paper compares two articles, Ariel Dorfman's September, 1973 and My Pin-Up by Hilton Als. The writer contrasts the rat...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Sanity of Hamlet

In five pages this paper evaluates the sanity of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy and whether or not he had lost it or had never be...