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Overview of Meditation

consciousness where the mind is not aware of anything in particular. During mediation, breathing slows and practitioners tend to p...

Marketing and Communications

Proctor and Gamble pharmaceuticals are a lively division. This is a company where it was once the role of the sales representative...

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...

Ideas on Culture, Evolution, and the Human Mind

a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fa...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Animals and Minds

In five pages this paper examines if animals have minds with the differences and similarities that exist between the mental facult...

Social Forces and Girl Cultures

a "Cabbage Patch doll, a Nancy Drew novel, a recent edition of Seventeen magazine or a television show...the commodities of girls ...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Capturing Readers' Minds

rather dull and dismal life? In this land are animals that talk, evil witches which control people and animals, and most important...

Success, Intelligence, and Money

which seems to reinforce this notion. Contemporary philosopher and lecturer Jacob Needleman observes, "Money is like a mirror to ...

Realist Theory and 911 Terrorist Attacks

the very opposite of democracy which strives for peaceful relations - evidenced by an absence of war and tyranny (Democratic Peace...

A Brief Description of Booker T. Washington

he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Contrasting and Comparing German Dictator Adolf Hitler and Greek God Hades

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall'

In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...

Stanford Prison Experiment

In five pages this paper examines this 1970s' psychological experiment with group behavior commentary, 'The Lottery' by Shirley Ja...

J.J.C. Smart and the Identity Theory

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the mind and brain in a consideration of UT Place and Herbert Feigl's i...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Mind Philosophy

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

Third World Peasantry Mind Changes

In six pages the reason why the third world peasantry must change in terms of their minds and hearts is discussed because culture ...

Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

Dan Story's Engaging the Closed Mind

always been lovingly evangelistic and compassionate Christians have not always been critically discerning. An apprpriate analaogy...

Body and Soul According to Socrates

In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Novelists Will Never Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence

the realm of artificial intelligence, there are two primary theorists whose works should be explored in honing in on the major deb...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Subconscious Mind and Hallucinogenic Drugs

drugs and that use which had been in play among groups such as the Native Americans for centuries? The answer to both of these qu...