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Science as the Foundation of Today’s World

cosmology in the 1600s. It seemed quite logical to Aristotle that the sun revolves around the earth, because that is what seems to...

Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Science v Religion

our world which to some are unquestionable and indubitable. Foundational knowledge serves as the immovable and irrefutable corners...

Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

2002). Despite the appeal of the traditional story, historical evidence shows that Newtons theory of universal gravitation did not...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

Street Science And Environmental Health

become involved in the all-out fight against environmental degradation by adding local voices to policymaking efforts historically...

Considering the Soul and Psychology

while the second cannot be perceived by are "intelligible (grasped by thought), not composed of parts, and exempt from dissolution...

Discussion of the Scientific Method

sunny window and the other cup was placed outside that it received direct sunlight. In both cases, the plants grew straight up unt...

Theism and Worldview

"worldviews can be evaluated for their logic, explanatory power and coherence" (Smith, 2005). Smith argues in favor of a sort of O...

Craven's What's the Worst that Could Happen?

Rationality of the Magic Grid Cravens risk or credibility grid has been called many things, most of them related...

New Methods of Instruction for Teachers at all Levels

help teachers meet the demands of their students and motivate teachers and enhance teacher performance. Background...

Future of Pharmacy

the procedures for preparing medications, procedures for dispensing medications, and the responsibilities of a pharmacy profession...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

Career Objective Essay

route towards creating and maintaining personal success. The lifelong learning movement is based on the idea that educational dev...

Forensics Ballistics

the commission of the crime, they will run ballistics tests as well. The distinctive marks called "striations form the bedrock of...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

Experiential Learning Essay: Plant Science and the Floral Industry

was the obvious fact that not everything grows equally well in all conditions. That means that a florist will be able to prepare s...

Alan Turing: Life and Accomplishments

"whether accordingly it could be released from matter by death" (Hodges, 1995). These reflections led him into concepts of 20th ce...

The Impact of Napoleon on the Art and Science of War

the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...

Christian Science/Overview

Rev. 3:7 (Slick, 2007). The Church of Christ (Scientist) was organized in 1879 in Boston, Eddy asserting that it constituted the r...

Biotechnology Will Not Necessarily Resolve the Hunger Problem

nation overly concerned and Prakash & Conko (2004) do examine that situation as follows: "President Mwanawasas public explanation ...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Tattoo Removal and Societal Approval

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Political Views on National Infrastructure, Space Exploration, 2008 Political Candidates, and Foreign Policy

despite the value infrastructure holds in this country in terms of the quality of life, industry, and national security. Ob...