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Crew Members Social Scientists
1,312 wordsPhenomena is a matter that social scientists must view in a very specific and cautious way. Social scientists must have a balance of doubt and caution and willingness to perceive new ideas in order to be successful. Doubt and caution is used when a specific issue is looked into more closely, and it basically takes away the chances of one being too gullible. A willingness to perceive new ideas is another way of saying to be open-minded, which is a trait that is definitely needed. Many examples de...
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Decision Making Process Product Or Service
1,291 words... tions. That's one of the reasons that many strategic planners now place as much emphasis on identifying strategic values as they do mission and vision. Decision- making groups may be widely used in organizations, but does that imply that group decisions are preferable to those made by an individual alone? (Robbins pg 240) Organizational performance is mostly dependent upon the decision making processes that a particular organization uses. In all organizations, decisions must be made on a dai...
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Hearing Loss Autistic Children
1,270 wordsIn general, autism is the developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, or otherwise sense. Approximately 3 to 5 out of every 10, 000 school aged children have some for of autism, and males with the disorder outnumber females with it by nearly 5 to 1. It is estimated that 1 in every 500 display some autistic characteristics (Williams, xiv). Autism is called a spectrum disorder because there is no one characteristic and it is different in ever...
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Pleasure And Pain Pursuit Of Happiness
1,728 words... felt, "The painful truth is that the work of an encyclopaedists is never finished, because facts change and knowledge expands, and because there is always room for improvement. " For fifty years, he did many writings on ethics. He examined the errors in moral philosophy by four giants of philosophy: David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey. Adler reiterated his conviction that only the ethics of Aristotle provide reliable and pragmatic explanation to basic moral problems. ...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau State Of Nature
1,601 wordsThe idea of consent is a key element in the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In the Second Treatise of Government, Locke puts forth his conception of the ideal form of government based on a social contract. As Locke develops his theory of consent, he also incorporates theories of political obligation on the part of all citizens of his state as well as his theory of revolution and the conditions under which rebellion is permissible. Though Locke may appear to have explored the notio...
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Des Moines School Uniforms
735 wordsDid you know that as many as twenty-five percent of the nation's pubic elementary, middle, and junior high schools have successfully implemented a school uniform policy? (Isaacson, 1998) School uniforms greatly benefit both the students and faculty by creating an atmosphere in which the students are able to get the most out of their education. I believe that all students should wear school uniforms regardless of whether or not the school is public. Below are clear-cut arguments in favor of schoo...
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Huck Finn Huckleberry Finn
936 wordsLife in the 1800 s has taken on an almost idealistic quality in the minds of many Americans. The images linked to this era of our history are, on the surface, pleasurable to recall: one room school houses; severe self-reliance; steam-powered railroads and individual freedom. All in all, we seem to recall a well-scrubbed past. Maybe, as we cross into the next century, it's time to take another look at the so-called "good old days. " Two very well written works that help to see the latter side of ...
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Imagine A Machine Mindless Machine Human
602 wordsCan you imagine a machine so big it dwarfs entire planets? Can you imagine a machine with a single goal, a single purpose? Can you see it, hovering in space, blotting out the stars, so big it bends thought? Can you imagine a machine so complex that no human has ever even tried to understand it, and yet the machine exists because humans built it in the first place? A machine consisting of entire worlds, entire ecosystems powered by chemicals and energy regulated by computers that build and progra...
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Psychological Theories Mind Structure
998 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears, communication of vital information (regarding survival tactics and the characteristics of animals, for instance), the satisfaction of a sense of order (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and introduce theori...
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Model Of The World Sensory Input Dreams
1,428 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Are dreams a source of reliable divination? Generations upon generations seem to have thought so. They incubated dreams by travelling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dreams do seem to have three important functions: a. To process repressed emotions (wishes, in Freud's speech) and ...
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Work Of Art Word Meaning
1,519 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Every type of human activity has a malignant equivalent. The pursuit of happiness, the accumulation of wealth, the exercise of power, the love of one's self are all tools in the struggle to survive and, as such, are commendable. They do, however, have malignant counterparts: pursuing pleasures (hedonism), greed and avarice as manifested in criminal activities, murderous authoritarian r...
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Quantum Mechanics Truth Value
1,151 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Religious people believe in the existence of a supreme being. It has many attributes but two of the most striking are that it seems to both encompass and to pervade everything. Judaic sources are in the habit of saying that we all have a "share of the upper divine soul." Put more formally, we can say that we are both part of a Whole and permeated by it. But what are the relationships b...
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Artificial Intelligence Real World
1,654 wordster> 2001 by Daniel du Prie Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996) Youve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) From Plato's "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers "The Matrix" (1999), there is a tradition of writing in Western literature, which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia, or both. ...
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Mania In Bipolar Depression
1,100 wordsBipolar depression, also known as bipolar disorder, manic depression and manic-depressive illness, is a form of a depressive illness in which mania and depression alternate. It is a disorder that affects over 2 million (1. 2 percent) Americans and usually begins during adolescence (American Medical Association [AMA], 1998). It is often not recognized as a serious disorder, but in many cases it causes difficulty in occupational, educational, social life, and other important functioning. A person ...
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Leaders Have A Strong Interest Leaders Have A Strong People
1,050 wordsTraining employees is a fundamental element of a corporations success. A company succeeds only as well as the people running it can perform. This training process can cover many skills and go into many areas of expertise. One key element that has only recently come into action is an outdoor- based experiential training program. Commonly called 'ropes courses, ' wilderness courses or adventure learning programs have been in use in the USA since the early 1980 's, and by organizations in the UK si...
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Psychological Study Of Fifth Grade Children
828 wordsThe article I will be summarizing is entitled, Making conservationists and classifiers of pre operational fifth-grade children, and was written by Linda Bakken, Johnnie Thompson, and Frances L. Clark. Piaget's theory of cognitive development assumes that mental development is a process that is directed by maturation and experiences like the environment. Piaget also suggests that, as children get older, genetic factors play a decreasing role, however the environments impact on cognitive developme...
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American Medical Association Childhood Obesity
1,392 words... wealth of role models society has to choose from adhering to this norm. The Interactions Perspective emphasizes things such as peer pressure, the influence of role models, and the role of peer groups on an individual (Adler and Adler 49). Because people often associate with others who are similar to themselves, the obese person's peer group becomes many other obese people. Often, these people reinforce each other's eating and exercise habits, as well as beliefs concerning obesity. It becomes...
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Oil And Gas Earths Crust
1,469 wordsPetroleum also known as crude oil, naturally occurring oily is a bituminous liquid composed of organic chemicals. Petroleum means rock oil, from the Greek petros (rock) and oleum (oil). It occurs in the earth in liquid, gaseous or solid forms. The term is usually restricted to the liquid form, commonly called crude oil but as a technical term it also includes natural gas and the viscous or solid form known as bitumen. Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic liquids consisting of hydrocarbons (...
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Aristotle Would Find Modern Views Soul
698 wordsAristotle is one of the most famous Greek philosophers and one the founders of philosophy as a whole. He lived in 384 - 322 BC and was very well informed and educated in a broad range of different topics including philosophy, science, and biology. One of his biggest achievements was the use of logic in conducting different types of researches, which certainly was a key point of his success. About 400 books belong to Aristotle and they impress with a variety of topics discussed in them. Aristotle...
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Psychological Treatment Mental Disease
1,014 wordsSchizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. Available treatments can relieve many symptoms, but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some symptoms throughout their lives; it has been estimated that no more than one in five individuals...
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