Balancing the Needs of Today and Tomorrow: The Ethics and Philosophy of the Fracking IndustryIntroductionFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has become an integral part of the global energy landscape. This process has allowed for the extraction of oil Continue Reading...
Creating and Sustaining a Culture and Environment for Evidence-Based PracticePart 1Using critically appraised and scientifically proven data, nurses can utilize evidence-based practice (EBP) to give high-quality health care to a specific population. Continue Reading...
Two ResponsesIs there a counter argument to the article below?Although servant leadership is shown to support interpersonal relationship development as well as workplace spirituality (Houghton et al., 2016; Reddy, 2019), servant leadership is limited Continue Reading...
Death within MoralityMedical professionals are guided by a set of moral/ethical standards, which are centered on the idea of doing no harm. However, the medical world is faced with questions and controversies surrounding the issue of death. Generally Continue Reading...
Educating Our Children in the Black American CommunityIntroductionObtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving peoples lives and sustainable development. The proverb goes: give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to Continue Reading...
On Why Evolution is TrueIntroductionDarwin catapulted the theory of evolution to the main stage with his Origin of Species. In Why Evolution is True, Coyne (2009) takes a look at the theory of evolution and breaks it down from various perspectives to Continue Reading...
On Why Evolution is TrueIntroductionDarwin catapulted the theory of evolution to the main stage with his Origin of Species. In Why Evolution is True, Coyne (2009) takes a look at the theory of evolution and breaks it down from various perspectives to Continue Reading...
Gratitude and Thanksgiving Good Habits for Character Development Introduction Gratitude is a moral emotion of appreciation and thankfulness. It is considered a moral emotion because it promotes a social attitude and behavior that is deemed virtuous a Continue Reading...
America's School System Needs More Character Education The school system in America has its good and bad points. On the good side, it provides kids a place to go while parents are at work: they get an education, they get lunch, they get supervisi Continue Reading...
Topic for Research According to Erikson’s stages of development, the period of adolescence is when teens experience the Identity vs. Role Confusion conflict. Unless they are able to solve this conflict, they cannot proceed on to the next stag Continue Reading...
Should Canada reinstate the death penalty for planned and premeditated murder What is your position and why Why are people punished for their crimes? What is the driving idea behind punitive sentencing in criminal justice? Is life behind bars somehow Continue Reading...
Comparing Marcus Aurelius and His Stoicism with Rousseau s Libertinism Marcus Aurelius: What Has Been Lost Natural law ethics were articulated by Aristotle in classical Greek philosophy and have been a mainstay of Western philosophy ever since, being Continue Reading...
Introduction The moral argument consists of four components—moral facts, moral knowledge, moral transformation and moral rationality. As Baggett and Walls point out, the most pertinent moral facts are concerned with moral duties and values, par Continue Reading...
The Tom Story Both Mudbound (2017) and Detroit (2017) seem to mobilize “the Tom story” in ways that seem significantly interesting and different to me. Neither film, for instance, really makes the viewer feel a kind of self-righteousness Continue Reading...
The broadest area of my life that requires certain virtues in order to do well is friendship. To be a good friend demands virtue; the bond of friendship can be easily broken when a person exhibits poor moral character. One reason why friendship depen Continue Reading...
Annotated Reference ListIKristjansson, K. (2014). There is something about Aristotle: the pros and cons ofAristotelianism in contemporary moral education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 48(1), 48-68.This study focuses on how character education Continue Reading...
Abstract This literature review examines several scholarly articles that focus on the role of religion in the formation of student character. Some of the articles study the effect of religion and/or Christian beliefs on academic achievement, while so Continue Reading...
Where Does Crime Begin? The Issue of Juvenile Offenders Introduction There are many theories for how juvenile offenders come to be: from strain theory to social control theory and social learning theory, researchers have postulated on what accounts f Continue Reading...
Offshoring an Ethical Business Practice? The practice of offshoring jobs is one that has been discussed at length by both by critics and proponents. Proponents argue that it is an unavoidable outcome of trade agreements that are both necessary and Continue Reading...
Mental therapy using non-intense video games and how it affects brain health among the aged population showing early symptoms of dementia. The deterioration of cognitive abilities and brain tissue due to age could have several adverse effects on men Continue Reading...
Educating Students What gives me hope for the future as an educator committed to helping students grow, develop and achieve in all areas of the whole child is the knowledge that I have a deep interest and love for the idea of developing the whole ch Continue Reading...
Learning, Motivation, Performance of Employees of Public Safety Organizations The motivation is defined as the intrinsic phenomenon affected four factors: temperament, situation, tool, and goal. Typically, people are motivated to achieve their goal Continue Reading...
Grotesque If one goes back to Plato and examines what the Greek philosopher had to say about beauty and truth, one discovers the foundation of the transcendental spirit in the West. The Greek philosophers -- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle -- more or le Continue Reading...
Good Life What is Good Life? The Consequentialism Debate Utilitarian reasoning is regarded as "consequentialist." The other approach of human actions' analysis is called "deontologist" reasoning. Utilitarian and deontological reasoning have very Continue Reading...
Bringing Down the House and the Half-Hearted Challenge to Hegemonic Norms The film 2003 Bringing Down the House starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah both reinforces and challenges hegemonic norms by playing up stereotypes in the first half for co Continue Reading...
Plato and McLuhan: Truth and the Medium In Understanding Media, McLuhan makes the case that the medium contains as much meaning as the content which the medium conveys. In a sense, McLuhan breaks deconstructs the process of communication to show tha Continue Reading...
Search for Extraterrestrial Life: The Existence of Non-Human Intelligent Beings in Our Galaxy The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always intrigued philosophers, scientists, theologians and even lay people for centuries. The fascinating ques Continue Reading...
Virtue Ethics Beats Egoism One of the reasons that philosophy is such a fascinating topic that has endured virtually throughout the course of human history is because it presents the crux of human existence in the basic forms of what is right and wr Continue Reading...
law was the States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act. This was a part of the 113th Congress which ran from 2013 to 2014. The law itself will be analyzed. The stakeholders of the law will be looked at based on the points-of-view that they pos Continue Reading...
art and show how they revealed the accomplishments of their respective civilizations. The three works are Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova (1804-6), the marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis (300 BC), and the Fascinus p Continue Reading...
Ethics in the nursing and occupational therapy communities is an ongoing concern that is being addressed in a number of different arenas and manners. This paper discusses national and international frameworks that have been created to address, define Continue Reading...
Rawls and the Just Society Today's United States society is not just because it violates both principles of John Rawls' theory of justice based on the "original position." This paper will explain Rawls' principles and show how the U.S. violates thos Continue Reading...
Augustine is a Christian father of the late Roman Empire -- the traditional date of the "fall" of the Roman Empire is about a half-century after Augustine's death -- while Thomas Aquinas is a thinker of the medieval period. It is worth noting this su Continue Reading...
interview of Alex that is a strong advocate for education. He believes that education is not a top priority in the nation and that there are a lot of concerns that need to be addressed in order for it to get there such as the, four emerging themes t Continue Reading...
