Essays Tagged: "Causation"

Violence in Sports

as the result of economic incentives, the influence of crowd behaviour on player violence, genetic causation for player aggression, learning theory and player aggression, and psychological stress and ...

(7 pages) 270 0 3.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Essay on Thought Contagion. Explains Thought Contagion and examples of how MEMES effect the mind. Teacher of class was very impressed.

. (Technical usage) A memory item, or portion of an individual's neurally stored information, whose causation depended critically upon prior instantiation of the same memory item in one or more other ... the same memory item in one or more other individuals. 4. (Technical usage) The process of repeated causation of new instantiations of memory items in which the causation of those new instantiations d ...

(14 pages) 171 1 4.9 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Comments on the documentary "Seeds of the Sixties"

sion and era of rebellion. As we further get into the film they give an explanation of the possible causation of this era, which would be the 1950's, and the social repression enforced at this time."T ...

(2 pages) 54 0 3.0 Feb/2003

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

What is history?

k of the meaning of history such as place, date, and who. Historical disagreement usually occurs by causation or motivation. Questions such as why did the history happened that way is often disagree u ...

(1 pages) 54 0 2.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Chapter 11 in Law 12 textbook

elements that must be proven are duty of care, standard of care, forseeability, reasonable person, causation, actual loss and burden of proof.3. Why was the Donoghue v. Stevenson case judgmen ... rmining whether a person's conduct in a particular situation is negligent6. Why is proof of causation so important in a negligence action?There must be a connection between the defendant's neg ...

(5 pages) 103 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

To Cheat or Not to Cheat? - A Philosophical Decision Utilizing Kantian Reasoning

ilosophers attempt to rationalize and formulate a theory that would explain human actions and their causation when a person is faced with a decision. Kant infers that since we all make decisions, ther ...

(6 pages) 60 0 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Prstitution Lesson for aspiring teachers.

nd upward vocational mobility. Students will work in groups, each investigating an area of possible causation such as economic stratification, familial disunity, abuse, drug use, etc. Information will ... nd synthesize the informational aggregate, attempting to ascertain primary, secondary, and tertiary causation and hypothesize about the actions that can be taken to ameliorate or solve the problems th ...

(5 pages) 45 0 1.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The approach the Zimbabwean courts take towards the question of damages in breach of contract cases.

in assessing appropriate damages include among others the:Mitigation of losses by the injured partyCausation and remoteness of damagesNon award of damages for sentimental loss or injured feelingsMITI ... oyment. As a result he was not obliged to take the post in order to mitigate the losses.SCRUTINY OF CAUSATION AND REMOTENESS OF DAMAGESTo avoid undue hardship to the defaulting party a line must be dr ...

(7 pages) 29 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Nursing and the Law

INTRODUCTIONIn this paper I will be discussing duty of care, non-delegable duty of care, causation, damages, vicarious liability, and damages. I will be discussing them all briefly as they ... oth the standard of care and the information provided to the patient were deficient (Reynolds 1996).CAUSATIONIn order for damages to be awarded by the courts, the plaintiff must prove loss or injury h ... ea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1996]; Clarke 2003; Pendleton & Vickery, 2000).Causation is evident in the case scenario to do with the 11 year old boy who had the surgical sponge ...

(8 pages) 180 0 3.8 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Buddhism: The Problem with Pratityasamutpada.

This will follow my speculation as to whether free will has any scope in this deterministic view of causation. Can man follow his duties without an individualistic aim? I'll like to refer to the butte ... e Pratitya samutpada, then is human existence in a race without a finishing line?The problem of causation has invaded human psyche since time immemorial and still remains persistent but in Buddhis ...

(12 pages) 41 1 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

Tort Law Basics

t must be evident. This is where the defendant has intentionally or negligently committed a tort.ii)Causation is also a crucial element of tort. There must be a direct connection between the wrongful ...

(3 pages) 153 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Problem Of Classic And Romantic Understanding

ance. If so, not all knowledge arises from the senses.In addition, Hume questioned the existence of causation. There is no object that gives us knowledge of causation. Therefore, according to Hume, we ... causation. Therefore, according to Hume, we do not know the concept of what causes sensory data or causation altogether. You can look at an object one way and notice it changes as you turn it. From a ...

(2 pages) 1010 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

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ime travel is one that raises an enormous number of philosophical problems and quandaries regarding causation, identity and the nature of time itself. While it is fascinating to study these merely as ... ds in time10. An ability to control these would lead to the much the same philosophical problems of causation as a person actually travelling backwards. While there would be no problems of physically ...

(11 pages) 8 0 3.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Compare And Contrast Medical And Psychological Models For Understanding And Intervening In Children’s Development.

nded to follow two discrete paths. The medical model tends to assume a line of pathology that seeks causation and remediation. Psychological models tend to embrace a developmental approach, in which s ...

(8 pages) 73 0 3.5 Sep/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Is Mr. Spock Possible

yze the error was off-tracked of his own logic or not. He might even think that his partner was the causation of the problem if nothing seemed wrong about his logic. In Roger¡¯s standpoint, ...

(2 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Buddhism

and those who are good to karma are on the right. The outer circle represents the twelve chains of causation. Holding the wheel is a creature that is death. The whole wheel symbolises the whole belie ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Civil War Reconstruction

reconstruction. Each period-based chapter offers a narrative that delves into deeper issues of the causation of war; a chronicle of events, detailed to the week; and eyewitness testimony, including d ...

(7 pages) 64 1 5.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers

Religion and Conflict

ligious conflicts in the past 200 years. Some historians have gone so far as to provide religion as causation of all war. (Wooldridge) But most religions advocate peace and harmony, so why does religi ...

(9 pages) 114 0 5.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Violence in Sports

e as the result of economic incentives, the influence of crowd behavior on player violence, genetic causation for player aggression, learning theory and player aggression, and psychological stress and ...

(7 pages) 14 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Skeptical Empiricism

in our minds is a consequence of his refusal to allow that the mind may have an active part in the causation of ideas of sense. Since all innate ideas are disallowed and there is no point in discussi ...

(4 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2012

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