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The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

Botticelli's Birth of the Virgin and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles

In five pages this paper examines how these Renaissance and twentieth century paintings reflect social attitudes and scientific pr...

The Concept of Manifest Destiny as it Applies to Early Life in California

Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon s...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

Scientific Revolution and How It Evolved

place (Meeks PG). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people wer...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

Time and Philosophy

When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Animals and the Study of Consciousness

The nature and extent of consciousness in animals has been the source of hot debate in the scientific community. This paper examin...

Relationship Between Self Improvement and Self Concept

In eight pages this paper assesses the importance of self concept in terms of failure or success with scientific research upon set...

The Basic Concepts Related to Chaos Theory

8 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic concepts related to the chaos theory. This paper outlines the...

Pythagoras and His Widespread Influence

In five pages this paper examines Pythagoras' widespread influence that includes the Western scientific concept, mysticism, number...

Realism and Antirealism Concepts and Theories

In eight pages this paper examines realism and antirealism concepts, theories, and the impact of scientific, economic, ethical, an...

Falsification Theories of Karl Popper

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Management Theories That Can Be Observed In A Fast Food Restaurant

theories were designed to put management in control, designing, using scientifically measured studies these, the most efficient wo...

APPLYING SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY

objectives: first, development of a science for each element of a particular work that would replace the old method; second, the s...

Article Review: Coffee and Diabetes Risk

to reduce the likelihood of diabetes to some extent. Moreover, caffeine, often thought of as a harmful chemical, may well be the m...

Kuhn's theory of the paradigm shift

which contradicts the paradigm, and which cannot be explained within the terms of the paradigm. This gives rise to further researc...

Science in the Media

a explain how and why this is bad for the environment, including the problem of molecules which take many decades to break down, a...

Atmospheric Modeling and the Scientific Method

to directly observe phenomena that are otherwise too large (such as the solar system) or too small (cellular anatomy) to be viewed...

Scientific Design - A Sample

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at scientific design. Using a hypothetical case study, a scientific design is develope...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

Psychology: Informal Practice To Bona Fide Science

importance of Lightner Witmer, considered to be the first patient of psychological treatment. As the discipline continued forward...