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Chambers Branson Welch

This essay discusses these three CEO and their leadership styles. The essay begins with a description of four leadership theories,...

Brown-Peterson Technique

There are three major issues discussed in this essay. The paper begins with a brief discussion of mental rotation with an example....

What Kind of Leader was Gandhi

This essay discusses three types of leadership, transactional, transformational, and servant. The essay provides examples of how G...

Send a Letter, a Real One

readers ten guidelines for breaking free from email and the last injunction is the most significant: It reads, "Disconnect at a ce...

Lifestyle Choices: Single or Married

a prospect that prompts some single women to have children and raise them as a single parent. While it is certainly possible to ...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

Alexander Hamilton On the Economy, A Summary

This essay offers a summary of "Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791" by Alexander Hamilton. The essay also relates this d...

Ineffective Communication Leads to Confusion

This essay presents a case study of provides food services to amusement parks. At the time of the case, the contract had not been ...

Elective Surgery and Preoperative Anemia

There is a greater possibility of being transfused if the patient has anemia prior to surgery. There is a greater chance of compli...

Science and Practice - Incompatible?

Science and practice of psychotherapy have been at odds for decades. Each has different goals: knowledge for its own sake or knowl...

Northrop's Essay on Globalization and the Great Convergence

large number of arguments that are spread over the same chronological period it may be argued that this is a logical structure (Do...

The Mind/Body Problem

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Did Descartes Question His Own Thought Process?

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

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

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Concept of God

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...