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Generalists versus Specialists in the Ongoing Education Debate

something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...

Social Determinant of Race

forensic differences between the races as well. For example, Ruston states, those of African descent tend to have narrower hips, h...

Gay Marriage Debate

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

Environment and Gender

tanker that ultimately dumped eleven million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. The actions of one man under...

Intelligence and Its Causes

But this study focused on a very extreme cause of mental retardation. Much of humanity does not have microcephaly, yet some peopl...

Comparing Race Matters by Cornel West with Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

scholarly texts of this type. Both Elshtain and West have much to say and are never shy about saying it. A debate between these ...

Pre Pearl Harbor Second World War Debate in the United States

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

Legalizing Abortion

are not right to lifers, the idea that someone is not born would immediately prompt the idea that the individual is not a person. ...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Great Britain and the Debate Between National Identity and Multiculturalism

in universities" (Higham, 1999, p. 143). It is not conceptualized in Great Britain, as it is in the US as a blueprint for society....

Debate on Accountability and the Auditor's Role

company have had, it might be said, a ripple effect, which have affected even those who do not own shares in the company. Many are...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Human Cloning Debate

real-life scenario does not produce a fully-grown replica, as one so often sees in the movies, but rather suggests that a human ba...

Political Dominance of the Liberalism Philosophy

a choice if deciding which way the world is swinging today, or always has. There is somewhat of a misconception that the world has...

Fictional Literature, Determinism, and Free Will

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

Nurture and Nature Psychological Intelligence Debates

level of intelligence because of our genetic makeup. The biological perspective of intelligence is most often associated wi...

Examining Debates Among Competing Philosophies

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

Conceptual Analysis of Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion by Stephen J. Gould

or genetic argument is often presented to reduce social spending on certain delinquent programs because "you cant change them, the...

Debate on Gun Control

of State John R. Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 conference, asserted that, given a choice between following the wil...

Thibaut and Kelley's Social Exchange Theory of Communication

to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Legality vs. Morality in the Abortion Debate

that fetus. The intrinsic value of life is a question which is constantly being considered in our courtrooms and in the...

Survival of Native Americans v. Europeans in the Colonial Americas

and those who consider the Native American as having an innate land ethic which allowed them to not only harvest enough from the l...

Twenty First Century and Appropriateness of Australia's Constitution

to address the current realities of the American people. As visionary as the men who created the American constitution were, they ...

Fictional Debate Between Robert Putnam, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Cornel West

Contemporary society is characterized by a common agreement that our society is in an upheaval. Opinions as to the cause...

Reproductive Rights and the Feminist Debate

to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological...

Ongoing Educational Debate on a Nationalized Curriculum

testing and the expectations will be the same. Such an approach, from the standpoint of a teacher, may prove beneficial in that no...

Presidential Campaigns, Debates, Elections, and Coverage by the Media

the transition in regards to technology used by the media in regards to political events can be seen in Borgna Brunners timeline i...