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Article Analysis: Appeals to Logos, Ethos and Pathos

women, despite their success; women still are faced with doing the majority of tasks around the home, no matter how busy their pro...

Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing

for its victims. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can result in either h...

Science Cannot Reach Definite Conclusions

source of testable evidence-that counts and forges the crucial distinction between speculation and science" (Gould, 1987, p. 425)....

Annotated Bibliography/Nursing Shortage & Foreign Recruitment

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

Denton's Open Ended Questions (Reaction Paper)

follows: "Open-ended questions power academic and social learning. Such questions encourage Childrens natural curiosity, challengi...

Grant Writing

compensation and assistance programs"; and the latter "sponsors research and evaluation projects devoted to new approaches and tec...

Article Analysis: Stearns: Why Study History?

from the past must serve as our most vital evidence in the unavoidable quest to figure out why our complex species behaves as it d...

An Example of Referent Power

in the nations race relations" (Dorning & Parsons, 2007). The author goes on to explain that he has become a celebrity of sorts wi...

The Problem With News Media Today

like NPR and PBS are under attack as there is political pressure for them to be less critical ("Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenou...

Global Warming (Article Review)

this is simply a humorous, tongue in cheek look at a real problem. In some way, humor lightens the seriousness of the dilemma. It ...

Review of Article "The Power of Words"

and uses them to empower others. In the first example, Morgan writes that she found herself at a point in her personal life where...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

Practicing Servant-Leadership (Article Analysis)

leadership is needed in government, is it really something good for the corporate bottom line? The suggestions again seem good and...

Article Appraisal; Can a developed country’s maternal mortality review be used as the ‘gold standard’ for a developing country

the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). This was published by the government in 1998. To make a comparison betwee...

The Influence of Robotics in Society

us to rethink our tendency to measure peoples value solely in terms of their economic contributions" (Brown, 2006, p.50). Clearly,...

Gold and Bettelheim: Fairy Tales

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

Media Response to Katrina

writes that the National Guard was called out to "help restore order and put a stop to the looting, carjackings and gunfire that h...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

Reaction Paper: Limited English Proficiency

all but impossible. This seems reflected in the following statement from another source: "No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is an appall...

Article Analysis: Leadership

White, 2003, p. 5). The fourth group comprises the "Tenacious Challengers" - people who take on the toughest problems; the fifth a...

Article Review/Sex, Drug Behavior

a venipuncture for HIV and hepatitis C virus, accompanied by pretest counseling. The participants returned two weeks later to rece...

Using Research in Teaching

they specify the parameters that should be used to judge the legitimacy of a research studys information. First of all, educators ...

Keeping a Perspective on Research

should demand details, ask questions. If a researcher states "traditional classroom discipline techniques" have been shown to "ef...

Article Analysis: "State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace"

of the world; it also sparked Davenport to formulate his thesis: that all repressive governments are not repressive in the same wa...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

Article Analysis: Psychology: Teaching about Madness

students may be tempted to "dismiss mental illness as nonexistent" (Connor-Greene, 2006, p. 6). This is particularly true when one...

Article Analysis: Power as a Theme in Women's History

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

Tanner on the Problems with Bad Research

than its potential for furthering social progress" (Tanner, 1998). He says educational researchers move "as a flock" (Tanner, 1998...

The Entry of the United States into World War II

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...