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Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

Organizational Behavior and Customer Satisfaction

changes. Gomes, et al. (2003) investigate a company in the textile industry, one that supplies knitted clothing to its cust...

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

Nursing and Knowledge

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

United States, Crime, and Drugs

a large proportion of its budgetary resources enforcing drug laws. Drug-related arrests have gone up 50 percent over the last ten ...

Empirical Measurement Validity and Reliability

Many research projects are based, in part, on interviews, for example. The problem with interviews is not merely the subjective so...

3 Research Studies' Literature Review

in all. General weaknesses : The sample population all came from the same hospital, which may limited the applicability of the f...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Students Who Are Mentally Retarded and Classroom Inclusion

what schools and teachers are actually supposed to do to meet the needs of disabled children (Stout, 2001). There is strong disag...

Exercise, Bone Density & Menopause

a 2-year randomized placebo-controlled study that was designed to determine whether not increased intake of dietary calcium, combi...

STD Abstinence-Only Education/Is It Working?

any longer than the regular sex education curriculum that is taught in many schools and that "Morality needs to incorporate realit...

School Uniforms and Their Impact

conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2000, surveyed 755 principals across the nation. Some of ...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

Politics and Empirical Evidence Regarding School Vouchers

more efficiently compete for students. The market forces principles that Adam Smith applied to economics more than 200 years ago ...

Religious vs. Cultural Oppression of Women in Islamic States

This paper presents an empirical research proposal to discuss the issue of female oppression in Islamic states. The author discus...

In Terms of Leadership Are Women More 'People Oriented?'

In six pages this paper considers whether or not women are more people oriented in terms of leadership than are their male counter...

Research Proposal Tutorial on Corruption in Law Enforcement

In eight pages this tutorial presents an empirical research proposal regarding corruption in law enforcement and the influence of ...

Interviewing and Research Concepts

In five pages this paper discusses researching through a combination of interviewing and research as considered in applicable chap...

Article Analysis on Empirical Research

In nine pages this paper discusses empirical types of research in an assessment of one study's methodology based upon external and...

Elementary Classroom Learning and Music Instruction

level math and science problems. In a subsequent study that replicated this research, again, the results showed that the students ...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Crtically Analyzing an Empirical Study

premise of the studies presented, then, is to determine whether the fears that are created as a result of this belief in focus are...

Theoretical Nursing Perspectives on Pain Management

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Female Artists and Male Pseudonyms

In five pages this research paper examines the practice of women using male pseudonyms in literature and art with an empirical ana...

Discrimination in Marketing

This 3 page paper discusses discrimination in marketing, and the claim that market segmentation has gone too far. The writer argue...