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1. The Ethical Imperatives of Nonviolent Protest:
This essay could explore the moral principles that underpin nonviolent protest as articulated in "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Discuss how King defen Continue Reading...
Decision Making, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills for NursesGiven the critical exigencies of the profession, nurses are routinely required to strictly rely on their education, training and experience to make life-and-death decisions about Continue Reading...
Amazon TransportationIntroductionTransportation is a critical component of Amazons business model and, as such, turnover in this area can have significant impacts on the companys bottom line. In order to address this issue, Amazon needs to recognize Continue Reading...
Literature Review / How Organizational Theories Improve OperationsOrganizational theories provide a framework for understanding how businesses operate. By understanding the different types of organizations and the way they function, managers can make Continue Reading...
Malala
Are words as powerful as weapons? Malala Yousafzai has often made this analogy in her speeches and written works, and there is some merit to the idea that words have a power that is similar to the power held by weapons. She’s said, for Continue Reading...
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Milton Friedman’s quote gets to the heart of the conflict between shareholder theory vs. stakeholder theory. Shareholder theory posits that a corporation’s sole responsibility is to maximize the return on investment (ROI) for Continue Reading...
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Historically, Biblical theology and philosophy had so many things in common and thus complemented each other. Philosophers and theologians even considered themselves mortal enemies in certain cases. Most Christianity doctrines have criti Continue Reading...
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Mass shootings in America have become more prevalent than ever before. Depending on how one defines “mass shooting” the number of mass shooting incidents in America this year alone could range anywhere from half a doze Continue Reading...
Ethics and ethical behavior can be taught, just as one can teach right and wrong to a child. A child without such an education is more likely to stumble into deviant behavior, and the same goes for an adult who is not trained in ethics and what const Continue Reading...
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As Senge (2006) points out, one of the most important aspects of managing effectively is the ability to realize the value of intrinsic motivation. Senge (2006) notes that after writing his book The Fifth Discipline, a copy of it ended up Continue Reading...
MLK’s Style
Martin Luther King used ethos, logos and pathos in his Letter from Birmingham Jail by appealing to an ethical justification for his stance, making an emotional appeal, and making an appeal to logic. From the standpoint of ethos&mdas Continue Reading...
Classroom Management: Hands on or Hands off?
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The issue of classroom management is a complex one in today’s world, especially as the issue of how to educate has taken on so many different dimensions over the previous decades. There Continue Reading...
Mathematical Happenings between Ancient Egypt and the 11th Century: Thales and Pythagoras Inspire the Grecian World
In the 6th century, mathematics came to Greece and helped launch the next stage of mathematical evolution in the history of the West. Continue Reading...
1. Alexander Pope assumes an authoritative voice in “An Essay on Man.” These lines, beginning with “All nature is but art,” and ending with “whatever is, is right” are declarative statements in keeping with the gen Continue Reading...
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Trade and imperialism brought all the societies of the Near East into contact with one another during the Axial Age so that networks were established and goods and services flowed from society to the other. These networks also facilitat Continue Reading...
Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and his thought is referred as Analects of Confucius composing of his ideas and sayings. For over thousand years after his death, his thought was still relevant in the Chinese thought. Confucius was born in 551 a c Continue Reading...
Progress of History: Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger
For Hegel, the idea of the progress of history was tied to his immersion in the world of Enlightenment and Romantic writers and thinkers. He lived at a time when the French Revolution occurred and Continue Reading...
education in America today should be to erase "mindlessness" as Knight (2008) refers to it (p. 1). Learning is a process that allows for education to take place. Helping students to realize that education is not something that is limited to the clas Continue Reading...
Locke and Proast: Religious Toleration
Proast's main criticisms of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration are that the government does have a right and, indeed, a duty to use moderate force in order to compel its subjects to adhere to the one true rel Continue Reading...
Plato and McLuhan: Truth and the Medium
McLuhan does not directly address the idea of truth or reality but does state that by understanding the structure of various media forms, we can become more aware of how it shapes our thinking and our environm Continue Reading...
Corporate Social Responsibility Programs
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs are effective forms of management that directly and indirectly impact the "social, environmental and economic environment in which" the corporation functions (C Continue Reading...
Education Ethics
The author of this report has been asked to find an article relating to education. Of course, that topic is very widespread and wide-ranging in nature. The author of this report decided to center on ethics in education. Specifically Continue Reading...
History Of Persuasion: Sophistry in Traditional and Contemporary Society
Athenians in ancient Greek loved public speech. Sophists, people with skills in oratory, were awarded trophies and accorded great respect. They were associated with wisdom and Continue Reading...
Theism or Atheism?
When humans consider the existence of God, they tend to look outward for evidence and inward for understanding. Humans must process both types of information through a filter that is based on an unwarranted confidence in human rea Continue Reading...
Matthew's Gospel
Most scholars agree that Mark's Gospel was written between 60 and 75 AD and that Mark's account served as a source for Matthew's Gospel, which was written at around the same period. However, while Mark wrote his Gospel for the Genti Continue Reading...
Cathedral
Raymond Carver's short story "The Cathedral" develops the theme of seeing the world clearly by using rich symbolism, irony, character development, and a postmodern tone and style. The blind man represents an unconventional mode of percepti Continue Reading...
Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from Venice who lived from 1757 to 1822. He primarily worked in marble and believed that he could use that medium to render an artistic view of human flesh. He is most famous as someone who rejected the excesses Continue Reading...
Social Justice and the Gospel
For centuries, philosophers have puzzled the human condition. Questions abound about why humans act the way they do, why they form groups, what role cultural and social norms have for learning, how societies form, the n Continue Reading...
Gorgias, Encomium of Helen
In the English language in the twenty-first century, the term "sophistry" still exists to refer to a plausible-sounding but misleading argument, an evaluatively negative term to describe bad reasoning. Although the term de Continue Reading...
MLK Letter From Birmingham
A Rhetorical Appeal for Justice
Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama as a direct consequence of his participation in demonstrations against segregation. It was during this time that King wro Continue Reading...
nursing education and specifically that completed in Saudi Arabia. The review will what the level of education is in Saudi Arabia now and historically, what efficacy critical thinking has as a component of nursing education and how that component ca Continue Reading...
Heroic Ideal Greece, Rome
An Analysis of the Heroic Ideal from Ancient Greece to Roman Empire
The mythopoetic tradition in Greece begins with Homer's Iliad, which balances the heroic figures of Achilles and Hector, two opposing warriors and men of Continue Reading...
Faith and Reason Irreconcilable
Irreconcilable Faith and Reason
The challenge of reconciling reason to faith has been one that has dominated philosophy since thinking and oration became known as philosophy. The challenge is to address the idea that Continue Reading...
Sex Offender Civil Commitment
Civil Rights or Societal Rights
Civil commitment is a legal process typically introduced into society for the mentally ill, or those individuals whom the Court or other professionals believe are a danger to themselves Continue Reading...
Crime - Durkheim
What does Emile Durkheim mean when he says crime is "normal"? In Durkheim's book, Division of Labor, according to author Stephen P. Turner, Durkheim said crime is inevitable and it is normal. What was the justification for those sta Continue Reading...
people generally think that we can detach ourselves from the world around us and objectively evaluate and reason through our experiences. This is the classical line of thought initially proposed by philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, and, late Continue Reading...