Dust-wiping and non-duality: The Buddhist teachings of Hui-Neng
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Buddhism, for all its accolades and requirements, its notions of the sutras and of karma, for all the equanimity it offers to people of any social caste, is a relentlessly frustrating philosophy. For those who adhere to its principles as writ by human hand (versus the ‘divine hands' that...
Psychological science: Content, methodology, history and profession
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
People have always had to study each other's behavior closely, but it was only in the nineteenth century that psychology emerged as an academic and scientific discipline, and only in the twentieth century that it also became a major field of professional activity. References to the human mind and...
Can Psychology become a Science?
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The project being undertaken here is one of an investigation into the possibility of a psychological science from a Jungian perspective. The project will consist of a series of 3,000 - 4,000 word essays (of which this is the first). The primary source used will be Sonu Shamdasani's Jung and the...
Importance of Critical Thinking, Active Reading and Effective Writing for Social Workers
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
There are important skills that every student should learn, whether they are in high school, community college, or at an affluent university. These skills include the ability to gain knowledge through critical thinking, and then applying that skill and knowledge to the processes of active reading...
Legal issues in child health
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Lawyers are uniquely suited to help improve the health of today's children. Many would argue that health insurance and ethics are the dominant concern in the health of America's youth. The best legal support for children is to help allow the child to participate in their own health care....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Notes from Underground': The complex that forced the underground man to withdraw
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, Notes from Underground, centers on an anonymous narrator who shows signs of an inferiority complex and as a result becomes preoccupied with his own purpose and self worth. He becomes so obsessed with adding meaning to his life that fantasies often take over in order to...
The possibility of psychology as a science
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will continue to discuss the possibility of a science of psychology. In part 1 we will discuss William James (1842-1910) ideas on this subject. A key theme in part 1 will be the subjective factor in psychology and will ask the question of how can psychology be a science if the...
The structure of society: from opposite ends of the spectrum
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
While looking at the structure of a society, one can determine whether or not a civilization is being run in a sensible fashion. By observing the class structure, roles of the different sexes, the manner in which the younger generation is being brought up, and the freedoms or restrictions being...
Jung in context
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
In part 1 of this essay we will outline the historical context of Jung's psychology. It will be evident from the start that Jung's thought was both rational and irrational and that he used the former quality to study the latter. In part 2 I argue that the Jungian community should come together in...
Psychoanalytic theory of personality
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
The theory of personality development is incredibly complex and highly significant to the world as a whole, and thus it is incredibly important to be able to realize and recognize not only the purpose of the theory of personality, but also all of the main details in regards to the theory and all...
Gender and sexual orientation's effect on lateralization and phonological language
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The subject of Gender influence on brain lateralization is a topic that has been explored in the scientific community. The consensus to this point is that gender does have an effect on lateralization and language. In proving this, it is important that the connection between gender differences...
Shadows of the self: personhood in recent ethnographies of imprisonment
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The human individual holds the ultimate position of importance to ethnographic research. Undeniably, no aspect of anthropological study escapes the contact of a person, whether as a subject forming a data point in the research, as an informant providing wider arrays of information and...
The effectiveness of e-learning programs
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this section is to establish from various literature, the main points of best practice in implementing e-learning into a large organisation, in particular recent research on the attitudes of the implementation of effective e-learning. It will look at the advantages and disadvantages...
Paraphilias
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
It is considered normal to have sexual fantasies and participate in sexual behavior, but when the fantasies and behaviors include inanimate objects, inflicting pain, or children, then others start to wonder if something is wrong with that person. One might be able to concur that a person like...
Spanish assumptions of Native Americans in the new world
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Early assumptions about Native American cultures and religions played a large role in justifying the reformation of Indians' ways of life. Assumptions made by the Spaniards included that Indians lacked morality, ethics, reason, and political institutions, and were therefore ripe for colonization...
Homosexuality and the psychological field
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Throughout the history of the psychological field, homosexuality has been viewed in a variety of different, and often contradictory ways. In the very beginning of the profession homosexuality was not viewed as within its realm of interest. Homosexual acts were considered, first as sins, and...
Bipolar disorder treatment and Vincent Van Gogh's creativity
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The term bipolar disorder is used to describe patterns of manic or hypomanic behavior (which is "just under manic" in the way that a hypodermic needle slips just under the skin, for example - and it is also coupled with elevated, expansive or irritable moods) that may or may not alternate with...
In-depth Country-by-Country analysis of distance learning in the Middle East
Essay - 17 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In this context, underdeveloped countries such as those in the Middle East (i.e. The Arab States, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Turkey, Sudan and Egypt) must increasingly turn to distance learning as a means of broadening access to education for their populations. In 1981, fourteen of UNESCO member...
Treating adolescent drug addiction
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Drug addiction and its treatment are complex issues for medical, psychological, and even legal and moral reasons. Addicts are vilified as objects of ridicule, but children are using intoxicating substances for the first time every day and substance abuse has occurred in almost every society in...
A second chance:A report on the effects of after-school programs and the prevention of delinquent behaviors
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Educational studies
Research shows that delinquency among children and adolescents is an extremely prevalent social problem, especially among adolescents in poverty stricken neighborhoods. Studies have shown that these kids are twice as likely to use and abuse drugs, participate in gang related activities and have...
Unholy Acts: The exile of Pope Shenouda in the context of Egyptian Religious Politics
Essay - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Soon after the end of Ramadan in August 1981, more than one hundred thousand Egyptian Muslims gathered in front of Abdin Palace in Cairo, ostensibly to celebrate the end of the fast. Western newspapers, however, reported that what appeared to be a prayer gathering had a political, as well as...
Debunking video game myths: The controversies vs.The reality
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Welcome to Liberty City, a rendition of New York City in the popular series of Grand Theft Auto. Released by Rockstar Games in April 2008, the forth installment continues the tradition of being as controversial as the three GTA's before it. With hyper realistic graphics, real world physics, and...
Truth in dualisms
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Social theory continuously finds itself facing predicaments surrounding the notion of dualisms. Many of the dualisms prompting debate among theorists include: micro/macro, voluntarism/determinism, subjective/objective, and agency/structure. These main dualisms present a recurring issue: that of...
National identity
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
What separates human being from other animals within our world is our innate ability to recognize and define our own existences. This ability in which we posses can not only create cohesion amongst groups and societies but it can also lead to dissonance and division. Our identities, whether...
Do we live in a post-industrial society?
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Contemporary society has increased in its complexity over the past three and a half decades. The labour market as we know it differs rather immensely from what was experienced at the turn of the century. Labour has evolved so dramatically that some prefer to say that we have entered a new age,...
"If only we knew": Repetition compulsion in Chekhov
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Although the examination of Chekhovian repetition can undoubtedly be explored through a method of means, no lens is more appropriate than that of Freud, not only the father of modern psychology but also the originator of the concept “repetition compulsion,” still a major component of...
Affects Of teaching techniques & styles on student learning
Tutorials/exercises - 16 pages - Educational studies
This project endeavors to reveal, present and discuss the idea that a wide and various array of teaching techniques proves effective in improving the functionality of instructors as tertiary educators. It emphasizes the central role of varied communication in the teaching process and covers the...
Southern Methodist University
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private university founded in 1911 at the heart of Dallas Texas offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in its seven schools: humanities and sciences; business; the performing, visual, and communication arts; engineering; education and...
The alternate approaches of the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King Jr.: From within or without
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Citizens of the United States will always be able to take pride in their country for its place as first true democracy in world history. Every citizen (a term which has carried with it countless shifting definitions) has always had the right to vote and determine his or her own course in the...
Utopian communist society
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Classic studies have always been the basis for many scholars in the analyses of modernization and current environment speculation. Classic studies pose challenges to the inquiries that surface in sociology; overturn the formalism of public administration studies and at several times reject the...
