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Essays 601 - 630

Temperament in Paul's Case by Willa Cather

a conference of teachers evaluating him after his suspension. Cather tells us, "Disorder and impertinence were among the offenses...

A Look at Aristotle's View on the Educated Mind

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

Rousseau and Rawls

as fairness" (Rawls, 2006, p. 199). He is quick to point out, however, that "justice" and "fairness" are not to be seen as equival...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

Systems Approach To Management

the outputs is the act of putting the finished products into the environment (Institute of Certified Professional Managers, 2005)....

Miller/Deep Healing Workouts

Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...

Oman; Accounting and Financing Considerations

have a capital of RO 10,000 or greater must produce and maintain full accounts. These have to include the production of a day book...

Piaget, Freud, Kohlberg, Bruner

6 years); latency (6 - 11 years); genital (11 to 18 years) (ETR Associates, 2006). Like Piaget, Freud did allow for some flexibili...

The Development of Problem Solving Skills

we first need to look at the developmental model of Piaget and what developments are seen as taking place at the different stages ...

Machiavelli's Place in Medieval Society

of the day. There were Kings and Christians and those who were attached to Enlightenment ideals. In essence, Machiavellis world wa...

Mussolini, Sarfatti and the Role of the State in the Arts

with the State ...Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual" (DiLorenzo, 1994). M...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Turing's Theory

means "from the former" and means that we learn from the experiences we have had in the past. "In much of the modern Western tradi...

Interview with an Older Woman

experience as a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appro...

Designing an Interview

a woman in the workforce, her thoughts about the struggle for civil rights, and technology as perhaps the most appropriate. This i...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Was 9/11 an Example of Huntington's Theory?

nations rather than princes" (Huntington). The pattern thus created lasted until the end of World War I, then shifted again, as ...

Sustainable Development and Human Welfare

Earth is a big planet but it is a finite resource, meaning that eventually things will run out. If we keep using more than the Ear...

Black Writers

industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence b...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Critical Thinking and Logic

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Nursing Programs and Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking Connection

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

Leon Trotsky's Thinking on Nazi Rituals

for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 19...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

Organizational Creativity Increases

Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but establishing the atmosphere in which a strong, positive culture can take root and gr...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

Critical Thinking and Logic

is reasonable for us to believe and disbelieve" (Cline). As this indicates, critical thinking utilizes the tools of science and lo...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...