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Approaches to Science, Richard Pirsig's Work, and the Text Science and Its Ways of Knowing

In four pages this paper examines various scientific approaches as featured in Richard Pirsig's work and in this text. Three sour...

Astrology as a 'Fringe Science'

to predict outcomes is to see where the planets will be in the future. This is easy to do. What is not easy is to use the current ...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

Christian Theology and Evolution

Basically, evolutionary theory states that life began on earth as single-celled organisms and evolved over millions of eons to mor...

'Hard Science' and Psychology

basis for mapping the entire cognitive development of childhood. While this framework is theoretical, it has been verified in stud...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

A Learning Activity and 3 Theoretical Applications

warm-blooded mammals that bear life young and most are insect-eaters (Krantz and Barrow, 2003). Considering the many misconception...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Sociology: Science or Not?

organizations members working in "government, business, or non-profit organizations" (Mission, 2005). The ASA exists to "provide a...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

Connection Between Globalization and Racism

such as the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Many argue those events to be the direct result of globalization,...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

Superconductivity and Superconductors

In eleven pages this paper written in a science magazine's article style, explores the science of superconductivity and supercondu...

Is social science a science?

no way identical to themselves. In other words there is a degree of separation, whereas those in the social sciences study human ...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Cognitive Science And Information Technology

ability to outreason and outlearn their human counterparts, leaving humanity open to an entirely unknown reality if that is ever t...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Origins of Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism

tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism ...

America and Buddhism

In ten pages the ways in which Buddhism has been practiced in the United States are examined in terms of various sects, its social...

Abortion in South Korea and Religious Influences

was accepted as a method for achieving this goal (Beals, 2002, p. 24). During this era, the majority of women seeking abortions we...

Three Historical Points

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...

Buddhism: Sacred Text v. Ritual

Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...

Buddhism and Its Relevance to Modern Society

(Alisimo, 2007). When this freedom is finally attained, the practitioner has reached Nirvana (Alisimo, 2007). Mahayana Buddhism u...

Recommending a Sect of Buddhism

the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

Buddhism and Utilitarianism

consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...

Jesus and Buddha

salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...

Origins and Influences of Buddhism

and responsible for the advent of Buddhism. To some extent, his unique history would lay the groundwork for his interest in spirit...

Buddha: Buddhism and Hinduism

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...