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Essays 601 - 630

Overview of the Romantic Age

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Performance of Employees and Motivation

attempting to induce others to accept certain goals and/or standards (Accel-Team.com, 2004). There are important caveats managers...

Robots' Limitations and Scientific Method

process of deduction occurs, reasoning progresses from the specific to the general. In reality both processes are important to th...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Issues of Partnership and Scientific Integrity

For example, if scientists are supported by R.J. Reynolds, they realize the people who pay their salaries will not want to find ou...

Three Themes Relating to Audience Studies

that they may have a different response to it, actively choosing to either accept the message, or to reject it and interpret it di...

Global Hospitality Industry and Human Resource Management

but in the service industry as it reflects on the quality of service received by the guests (Lucas , 2004, Korcynski, 2002). Howev...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Migraine Triggers and the Scientific Method

these processes are useful in everything from helping a friend that seems upset to perfecting cooking strategies. Consider, for e...

Human Physiology and Prostanoid Receptors

to be not as hydrophobic as they were once thought and that they do not incorporate into or permeate cell membranes (Narumiya, Sug...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Scientific American Article 'Does Race Exist?' Reviewed

five different groups of people whose ancestors were typically isolated by oceans, deserts or mountains" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003)...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Leadership of BMW

supervisory board (aufsichtsrat), and the management board (vorstand). This has a strong historic presence and has mandatory since...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

The Reputation of Alfred Russel Wallace

of existence. The Enlightenment symbolized the chance to break free from such constraints as heretofore placed upon the concept o...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Lawn Comparison Scientific Case Study

grass watered (both volume and frequency)? Are any other chemicals, enhancers, etc. used? A secondary source of information may be...

Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...

Human Behavior and the Effects of the Full Moon

very ancient ancestors, experts theorize. Experts tracked the biorhythms of various individuals and found that the new moon and th...

Scientific Community and the Future of Women

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Ancient Alchemy and Its Progress

have causes to which they can be traced, the causes in themselves can be classified into four principles of explanation: material...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...