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Bombing of Coventry, England and Winston Churchil

of the city of Coventry goes back to the Middle Ages, and was first settled in the seventh century (Longmate 13). Prior to the 194...

Cancer Detection and Breast Self Examination

In an analysis of the study, throughout 1994, doctors had diagnosed breast cancer in 144 of the women getting regular screenings a...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Historical and Contemporary Religious Responses to Science and Technology

empires that would endure for centuries. These initial ties would culminate in a genuinely global integration of human cultures. ...

Conceptualization and Teaching

In eleven pages this paper discusses how preteaching conceptualization for a specific child group can be organized as it pertains ...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

Theorists and Course Setting Management

the late 1950s and co-founded Scientific Methods, a consultancy business, in 1961 (Scientific Methods, 1998). Dr. Blake institute...

Teaching Strategies and Curriculum

In five pages specific curriculum effectiveness of such teaching strategies as Socratic dialogue, didactic instruction, and cooper...

Oedipus and Gilgamesh Compared

The tragedies these leaders experience that lead them onto a path of self knowledge are the focus of this paper consisting of five...

Greek Philosophers and Myth v. Knowledge

he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...

'Eye of Power' by Michel Foucault

In seven pages Michel Foucault addresses knowledge and power and the relationship that exists between them in his essay entitled '...

Letters of the Civil War

This research report looks at the American Civil War and how knowledge is acquired through letters written during the time period....

Biology and Dentistry

In five pages connections are made between biology and dentistry with the emphasis upon disease epidemiology understanding and a k...

An Analysis of The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman expertly illuminates his knowledge of globalization in the captivating bo...

Knowledge, Forms, and Plato

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

Belief and Knowledge According to Plato

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

Skepticism of David Hume Answered by Immanuel Kant

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

'Experts' and Knowledge Level Variations

of knowledge, however, such demonstrative proof is not always readily available. It is also important for the knowledge dev...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Character of Gertrude

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

Human Fulfillment Through Knowledge and Eros

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

BayesiaLabs Data Mining System

customer loyalty are operating at the highest levels possible. Increasingly popular is the use of data mining to discover a...

Sex, Sexuality, and Sociology

and blatant bias in much qualitative research - the very form that can best discover attitudes and perceptions - has prevented muc...

E-Systems and the Addition of a KMS or Knowledge Management System

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

Nursing as a Profession and its Distinguishing Features

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

United Kingdom's Knowledge Based Economy

In 1998 Chase predicted that the world economy would be undergoing a rapid period of change with the new knowledge based economy t...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Knowledge Motif in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...

A Communities of Practice The Organizational Frontier Article Analysis

to customers, create new markets, rapidly develop new products and dominate emergent technologies" (p. 2). Basically, he s...

Modern Agriculture and the Benefits of Marine Biology

source. However, the commercial fish food necessary for the tilapia is: "... expensive, spoils rapidly, and is difficult to transp...