Essays Tagged: "phenomena"

Why Study Religion?

idea that man is trying to grasp andunderstand. Also, it could be argued that by researching such aphenomena as religion, it does not look like man will come to anyunified agreement in the near futur ...

(6 pages) 565 4 4.0 Nov/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Gun Control in America: a new approach at an issue that is becomming an epidemic. Possible solutions and the costs of those solutions.

access to guns in America and a policy on gun control should be legislated.I.Natural disaster is a phenomena that every human must encounter. It is a phenomena that is beyond our control ? and can be ...

(3 pages) 277 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

What is Love?

iences that I have been involved in recently have attributed to a better understanding of this love phenomena, some of the ideas that are expressed in this book were of tremendous merit. I find it alm ...

(6 pages) 234 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Is there a God or is HE (?) an illusion?

of the illusion lies in the strength of wish fulfillment.For example - People, at first, interpret phenomena's according to theirexperience and knowledge of their every day life. They project their o ...

(1 pages) 127 1 3.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Turn Around, An essay which breaks down both the parable of the cave and Socrates four levels of reality

the other, and amplifies it. As with so many other laws of science, this law applies to many other phenomena. I believe this is what people feel when they first hear the Allegory of the Cave . . . so ...

(6 pages) 121 0 4.2 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Art- always beautiful? Critical writing.

. Riots, murder-death-kills, drug abuse, either happening for real or only sang about, are frequent phenomena during the concerts all over the world.A great number of these "artists" often create unde ...

(2 pages) 104 3 2.8 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Phantom limb phenomena

the sensations which the amputees have been reporting,is due to a manifestation called Phantom limb phenomena.The neurobiologists have been chasing the phantom. Their first attempts were to figure out ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lucid Dreaming, Asleep and Aware

r is aware that he/she is dreaming and is sometimes able to takecontrol. Lucid dreams are an actual phenomena that do occur in REM sleep.Dr. van Eeden was the first recorded person to study dreams in ...

(5 pages) 68 0 4.0 May/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Nazi Propaganda

of inducing or intensifying specific attitudes and actions. Although propaganda was not new a new phenomena founded in Nazi Germany, never before had it influenced public opinion to the extent that ...

(10 pages) 237 2 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Has Political Islam failed in Algeria?

country in the Islamic World, is an important question for the analysis of the politicized Islamic phenomena. Olivier Roy sees the movement as a failure, not only in Algeria but also in the whole are ...

(14 pages) 115 2 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Towards a Definition of Culture

Towards a Definition of CultureCultures are phenomena. It is an observable occurrence of events around us, but is very difficult to define. What ...

(4 pages) 200 0 5.0 Sep/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Can We Say "NO" To Recycling

identity appeared. Recycling first started as man's best friend, people were intrigued by this new phenomena. What could be better than using things that were already used. Recycling has been very us ...

(10 pages) 409 1 4.8 Apr/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Plagues

ts. As time progressed to the twentieth century, there have been few if any exceptions made to this phenomena. In the case of Oran, the people raced to find a culprit for the sudden invasion of their ...

(5 pages) 40 0 5.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The existence of God (or lack thereof)

y they can explain it, thus the development of a supernatural being. People now have a category for phenomena that they cannot explain, they call it "god". Believing in a god is one's own inability to ...

(4 pages) 93 0 2.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Magnetic Susceptabilty

ons arises from a strong ligand field produced by CN-.Introduction:The magnetic susceptibility is a phenomena that arises when a magnetic moment is induced in an object. This magnetic moment is induce ...

(6 pages) 70 0 3.5 May/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Plagues

ts. As time progressed to the twentieth century, there have been few if any exceptions made to this phenomena. In the case of Oran, the people raced to find a culprit for the sudden invasion of their ...

(5 pages) 37 0 5.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Content Analysis on Locke's An Essay on Concerning Human Understanding

While deeming external experience - sensation, as replica of reality and phenomenal images, many empiricists were unaware the consequences with regarded to their theory on k ... ernal entities. From this, Locke provided us a logic on Empiricism as external experiences are just phenomena of knowledge. While denying any constant metaphysical views on objective reality, unfortun ... the mind itself, the theory of knowledge from Locke seemed to unable to solve through the issue on phenomenalism, in which it encircled and reached metaphysical data. In addition, beginning with data ...

(8 pages) 237 0 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Phycology - Adolesence.

of constant evaluations of their appearance. The movie "Welcome to the dollhouse" illustrates this phenomena. Dane had never worried who was popular or attractive, but with puberty everything changed ...

(4 pages) 154 4 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

This is a research paper on the effects of video games. It is pro video games, and argues against the negetive effects.

among critics of video games, so lets take a look at them first.The first big negative effect, is a phenomena called 'new violence.' According to Michele Steinberg, in 'Programmed to kill,' 'new viole ... ced? Ok lets look individually now at each of the negative effects.First we have the 'new violence' phenomena. Lets look specifically at the Columbine Murders. Sure they played violent video games, an ...

(7 pages) 567 2 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What does it mean to 'think sociologically'? Illustrate your answer with examples from sociological research and from your own experience.

eiss 1968: 2-3). Others try to determine the nature of sociological thinking by detailing practical phenomena which can be thought about such as social systems and their subsystems, social institution ... his The Sociological Imagination is widely recognised as a set of key tools in understanding social phenomena which Willis (1999) expands on. Willis uses Mills to argue that there are four distinct se ...

(8 pages) 413 3 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology