Essays Tagged: "groundbreaking"

Aha! Gestalt psychology and insigth learning. Wolfgang Kohler's studies

behavior of apes that showed the importance of perceptual organization and insight in learning.His groundbreaking experiment involved one of his chimpanzees, Sultan. Sultan had learned to use a stick ...

(2 pages) 104 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Chicago by Carl Sandburg; an analysis of his poem and some biographical information.

as its economic injustices, left a deep impression on the young man that would emerge later in his groundbreaking poem "Chicago." As the son of a Swedish immigrant laborer, who in his youth had hitch ...

(4 pages) 17894 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Charles Darwin's impact upon our world.

d his concepts included exemplified applied rational thinking to the natural world resulting in his groundbreaking theory of evolution and natural selection. In a larger sense he opened people's horiz ...

(4 pages) 109 0 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

Ideal Ideal: Comparison, Contrast, and Synthesis of Marxist Socialism and Adam Smith's Capitalist ideals

d, and written about by countless authors but no literature has been so widely regarded as not just groundbreaking, but epic in its influence as the writings of Adam Smith, and the combined efforts of ...

(7 pages) 225 1 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Can Technologies determine modern social customs and ethics?

uch a high level of development and is keeping its blinding pace to evolve forward. Manifest as the groundbreaking breakthroughs engendered by technology are, people are inclined to favor that technol ...

(2 pages) 122 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

A thematic analysis of "Citizen Kane" .

companied the film, it helped guide the storyline. The cinematography by Gregg Toland was literally groundbreaking, as seen when in order to shoot an extreme low-angle shot of Welles and Joseph Cotten ...

(5 pages) 197 1 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Cubism was one of the strongest art movements in the 20th century that gave birth to many other movements such as futurism and suprematism.

ssessment of the interaction between form and space changing the course of western art forever. The groundbreaking Demoiselles d'Avignon was controversial not only for the way the women looked but als ...

(3 pages) 172 0 4.1 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Ramped Ignorance.

Ramped IgnoranceLast month, the Associated Press broke two "groundbreaking" stories in rapid-fire succession. One headline all but screamed out the stunning rev ...

(2 pages) 42 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Leadership of Margaret Thatcher, the first woman Prime Minister of Britain.

ideas that were commonplace, she set a catalyst movement for the end of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking views on monetarism and privatization manifested into one of Britain's biggest contri ... ideas that were commonplace, she set a catalyst movement for the end of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking views on monetarism and privatization manifested into one of Britain's biggest contri ...

(14 pages) 154 4 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Case Study: Schizophrenia; A Beautiful Mind

discoveries on windows in his dorm room, and overall he had impeccable intelligence. He developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his impressive rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT pr ...

(5 pages) 132 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Emily DIckinson

arded as a key force until the twentieth century when modern readers recognized Dickinson's work as groundbreaking and unprecedented by any of the time. Dickinson was not recognized in the nineteenth ...

(5 pages) 134 0 2.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

An Examination of Thomas Hobbes' Moral Philosophy with an Emphasis on the Escape from the State of Nature.

at once the birth of political science, an indictment of the prevailing scholastic tradition, and a groundbreaking piece of moral thinking. Despite the grand scale of the work, Hobbes maintains a focu ...

(4 pages) 75 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development. (Focus in this essay is on Erikson's first three stages of Growth.)

ly investigate the later periods of development in order to fully disclose the essence of Erikson's groundbreaking theory. Before my onslaught into this, the core of this essay, I will first give a br ...

(12 pages) 793 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

What contribution has Jack Davis made to the development of theatre?

d companies such as the Bangarra dance theatre could not be at the place they are today without the groundbreaking that Aboriginal playwrights such as Jack Davis have achieved.Although not the first A ...

(3 pages) 50 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

King Affonso I of Congo - His life, Accomplishments, and Importance of his Anti-slavery work

King Affonso I, the venerated king of Congo, is one of the most influential and groundbreaking characters in the history of Africa. Once he converted to Christianity and became kin ...

(4 pages) 53 1 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Research assignment

Name Guggenheim Museum BilbaoArchitect Frank O.GehryDate Groundbreaking: 22nd October 1993 Public OpeningStyle Of Architecture The Guggenheim M ...

(2 pages) 112 2 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Was the aim of the terror of 1793-94 the defence of France or the moral regeneration of the French people?

ilien Robespierre 28 July 1794, the revolution would prove as controversial to historians as it was groundbreaking. The question of the motives and virtues of, ?the second terror? (1793-94) is one of ...

(7 pages) 34 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Conceptual Art Discuss the relation of Minimalism and Immateriality to Conceptual art.

ere encouraged to dynamically experience and respond to the art and become critics themselves. This groundbreaking art practice was not without a strong set of roots in other movements such as Dada, S ...

(6 pages) 78 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays

The Story Remains The Same

get Drafted)This lyric from the Dead Kennedys song "When ya get Drafted" is an example of what this groundbreaking punk band stands for politically. The band's aggressive music and powerful lyrics sho ...

(8 pages) 43 0 4.0 May/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

David Bowie

Man Who Sold The World wasn't as successful as his first but it did show that Bowie was becoming a groundbreaking artist. The abrasive hard rock sound of his second album was considered by some peopl ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.8 Jul/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers