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The Same Sex Marriage Debate and Religious Discourse

the fight against same-sex marriage being legalized is largely influenced by religious ideology in the legislative and constitutio...

Medical Treatment and Religious Affiliation

factors of religious affiliation on belief and health consciousness, for society as a whole. The authors carried out their study...

Pedagogy and Fictional Narrative

an academic context than is currently the case, even in situations where the information being transmitted is related to some soci...

Altered Cognition and the Reading of Fiction

Prior to the reading of the story, each student was asked to fill out the psychological tests, and various measurements of their p...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

most promising, as well as one of the most controversial, areas of contemporary scientific investigation. The potential for medica...

Environmental Science and the Importance of Models

same as a real swing of the bat; nevertheless, these models of chemical makeup and statistical probability convey meaningful infor...

Debate on Caps Being Placed on Medical Malpractice

While some might consider this a step in the right direction, trial lawyers and victims of medical abuses do not agree. The Associ...

Controversy and the Abortion Debate

dockets was in 1843. It was even guessed in the early 1900s one out of four pregnancies were terminated through abortion. So giv...

The Reputation of Alfred Russel Wallace

of existence. The Enlightenment symbolized the chance to break free from such constraints as heretofore placed upon the concept o...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

California National Assembly Health Committee, and as Wakefield reports, this is what makes the current situation so untenable. ...

Natural Environment and Corporate Responsibility

Smith suppose that free trade will to an extent take care of everything. The market will correct itself. Allowing trade without re...

Young Child and Environment

other connotations as the factors of gender and race were thrown into the mix. In most models a person is constantly at war with h...

Personality, Behavior, and the Significance of Nature v. Nurture

that people behave themselves and conform to laws. Thus, the revolution in thinking about genes has monumental consequences for ho...

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...

Scientific Community and the Future of Women

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

Environment and Gender

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

Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Illegal Immigration and Economic Issues

John OSullivan writes that part of the problem lies in economic theory itself. He writes that for many years, economists have reli...

Psychology and the Ongoing Debate Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research Approaches

suggests that it is better than what quantity can provide. People suggest that enjoying the quality of food is preferable to wolfi...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

Stem Cell Research Controversy

citing that the industry does not have enough controls to make certain that abuses do not occur. Scientists are stating th...

Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

Late Pregnancy Abortion

placed in jeopardy by the pregnancy, (by a fetus that is incompatible with life), is the only reason that that pregnancy can be te...

Homosexuality Issue in the U.S. Presidential Debates of 2004

knew what the definition of a couple was....

Sanctity of Life versus Quality of Life

have the discretion to terminate their dependents lives" (Woodward, 1995). Defenders of Latimer points out that if the surgery tha...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Electronic Monitoring Devices/Parolees and Prisoners

in prison (Biniok, 2004). They contend that the costs of electronic supervision are unacceptable, even that such supervision viol...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...