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Essays 301 - 330

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Consideration of Biblical Theology in the Old Testament

In fifteen pages Old Testament theology is considered in various sections that include models, debates, and a discussion of theori...

Psychologists George Kelly and Sigmund Freud

simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to de...

Marx, Goethe, Galileo, and Machiavelli on Belief, Identity, Nature, and Power

In fifteen pages this report examines how these theorists perceive these concepts as reflected in their respective writings. Five...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Organizational Change Management

In twelve pages case studies and such theorists as Senge and Lewin are examined in this consideration of organizational change and...

The Lazy Poor

write off or simply looking good in front of others. Rather, the helper feels better about themselves. Helping feeds the ego. Howe...

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Critique of Dworkin's Striking Down of Legislation

key to the way that Dworkin is criticising it. To look at this we need to put the ideas of Dworkin into a broader context. Some, ...

Gender and inequality

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...

Views in Cultural Anthropology

is accomplished via a cycle of war, ritual slaughter of pigs and subsequent regrowth of the pig population. This cycle typically t...

A Domestic Violence Analysis

men, about 95% of reported domestic abuse cases do involve women (Hyman, Schillinger, & Lo, 1995 as cited in Erickson et al., 1998...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

The Nature of Man According to Plato and Machiavelli

concert with personality and the physical life. Plato dissects the soul in his own unique way. He did claim that all things have...

Conflict in Society: An Analysis of the Writers' Strike

writers strike as an area of focus. This is a classic fight and something that may be equated with what Karl Marx (1998) expresses...

Comparison of Gould and Bacon

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

Corporal Punishment and its Impact

comments made for and against the use of spanking. Definition Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment is "the intentional inflic...

Elizabeth Spelke and Jean Piaget's Child Development Theories

thought themselves are qualitatively different from one another. In other words, according to Piaget, the way individuals think at...

Thought or Perspective in Regards to Race Relations

into the culture of the dominant people. In essence, the culture of the minority is curtailed and extinguished. The reason this co...

A Priori Knowledge from a Foundationalist Perspective

it applies to the view of a priori knowledge and also consider the writings of philosophers like Kant and Descartes as they serve ...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

Media Prophet and Renaissance Man Marshall McLuhan

In the introduction to McLuhans Understanding Media he writes: "Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have e...

Contemporary Business Practice and Management Theory

In five pages this paper examines the modern business setting in a consideration of past management theories and theorists includi...

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Sigmund Freud on Crime

In twelve pages the crime views of these three influential theorists are compared and contrasted. Thirteen sources are cited in t...

Developmental Psychology Overview

he was also popular in Europe (1997). Erik Erikson would begin to study psychology, with the help of Anna Freud, in the latter par...

Anthropological Theory Pioneers

In eight pages this research paper discusses the anthropological contributions of theorists A.R. Radcliffe Brown, Franz Boas, and ...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

Cultural Perspectives of Isaacs, Vygotsky, Bruner, and Piaget

In four pages the cultural perspectives of these theorists are applied to an examination of socialization, language, and education...