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Capra's "The Hidden Connections"

of sustainability reflects the focal point of Capras (2002) perspective. The extent to which this seemingly beneficial concept fo...

Nursing Education - Concept Mapping And Critical Thinking

mapping. This is not a new approach but it is one that has gained a great deal of attention in the last several years. Concept map...

Cognitive Restructuring

meet, however, people in the throes of emotional instability are often incapable of offsetting the destructive thoughts that wande...

Thinking Errors, Research Abilities, and Critical Thinking

in any field is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within, for example, ...

'Forbidden Thoughts' in the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer

In six pages this paper discusses the forbidden thoughts that haunted Jeffrey Dahmer and how he acted them out in his heinous kill...

Pagan Religions and Christianity

Did Christianity borrow ideas and practices from pagan mystery cults. This is an allegation that has been popping up since the 19t...

Example Case, Application of Critical Thinking, EBP

This research paper offers an overview of a case study described by Lunney (2010). The analysis provided by Lunney demonstrates th...

Higher Level Thinking

There has always been confusion between creative and critical thinking. Many people think the two cannot exist together. That is n...

Language and Thinking

A major debate for decades has focused on whether or not language shapes thoughts. Can language influence thoughts so much as to s...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Critical Thinking

This paper considers how critical thinking and creative thinking then argues that they both occur together. There are two sources...

“Blink”: Gut Feelings and the Diagnosis of Heart Conditions

(one of the complicating factors in coronary artery disease) on an annual basis (Woods 27). Unfortunately, even more go untreated...

Decisions in Paradise

founder. When the potential outcomes are considered, and a preferable one is identified the decision-making process can then move ...

Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions by Glenn Tinder

a student, or anyone else, this think, but can present some insights that students and teachers alike may find useful, he states ...

Systems Thinking Discussion Questions

a solid business case - i.e., saving money - for approaching decisions and projects from the system perspective. If efficient ope...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Psychodynamic Behaviorist Humanistic Social-Cognitive

id, ego, and superego. The id is about the base desires of the human, the superego acts like a conscious striving for the highest ...

Case Decision Making

this model, it is seen as being objective. However, it is possible that input data may be subjectively influences, the processes a...

Describing Mental Illness

feels about their illness. The difficulties are then associated with a more physical symptom that the reader may be able to identi...

Thought Process of Criminals

indolence which refers to a desire to take the easiest path; cutoff of the ability to eliminate feelings of fear; power orientatio...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

Scientific Thought

phrase "its not rocket science" is used to suggest that a certain topic is not that difficult, implying that science is quite diff...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Virginia Held on defining "Human" and "Natural"

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Using Critical Thinking to Tell Truth from Lies

Critical thinking has become even more important in today's society of opinion masquerading as news. This paper analyzes contempor...

The Importance of Critical Thinking

The importance of critical thinking in modern society cannot be overestimated. This paper discusses critical thinking, what it is ...

James Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'

This is a 5 page paper that explores what how protagonist Stephen agonizes over what he thinks he should do as opposed to what oth...