Should everyone get married?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
My mother once told me that she would have filed for a divorce with my father if not for her children. It is heart-wrenching to hear a woman make such a remark on her marriage, a legalized union between two people, especially when she is somebody whose blood courses through one's veins. In this...
1984 contemporary politics
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Literature has a mysterious way of predicting certain events. The fact that history tends to repeat itself amplifies this phenomena. The novel, 1984, George Orwell seems to make certain predictions that are evident in our current political system. Censorship and government surveillance are two...
Historical developments of corrections and correctional models in the U.S
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There have been many developments throughout the history of corrections which have brought about the controversial system we know of today. This system is strongly rooted in, surprisingly, religion and European values. However, the most influential of these practices comes from our own process of...
On modernization and tradition
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Legend has it that one day in 1871, there was a man who, having entered a food shop in Amsterdam, spotted some Japanese prints being used as wrapping paper. So enamored by these prints was he that he bought one on the spot—and, in so doing, revolutionized the history of Western art. Now, the...
Mindfulness is awareness of relevant information
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Mindfulness is awareness of relevant information. Constant sensory input without the proper means of handling it leads to a fragmented, less effective human being. A focused, mindful person understands what information is most important to their goal and pays attention to their own actions....
Could the internet of things bring about Utopia?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The truth about humans is that we strive for the perfect society, in which people are equal in every aspect, and live in harmony, with no crimes or any problems; a world in which we can fulfill all our wants and needs. Simply put, we want to achieve Utopia. Since greater importance has been put...
Why did the Tory party's electoral fortune revive between 1874 and 1900?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
From 1846, the conservative party has been in minority in the commons, but at the end of the 19th century there was a conservative revival. Indeed, after 1880, the Tory party became dominant in the Victorian political life. The main actors of this revival were Disraeli, who was Prime Minister...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant judges but...
How Bison can help Native Americans
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Violence and deceit have characterized the relationship between the federal government and Native Americans ever since the era of policy- driven expansionism. The aftermath of all the bloody wars and cultural conflict is the present situation of Native affairs. After tribes signed treaties...
Integrated solution for more efficient wind power production
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
This paper is an Essay Proposal that intended to outline different approaches applied by specialized experts in the field of renewable energy sources, of which wind energy is one area of the theme. In order to argue for the factors that influence efficiency of producing power out of wind energy,...
How Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson's plan of Reconstruction lead to America's Unfinished War
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Civil War was a defining moment in American history. The Civil War was fought between the northern and the southern regions of the United States, over the institution of slavery and its future in the union. The northern states had mostly abandoned the practice of slavery by the mid 1800s, but...
The teleological argument
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
William Paley was the creator of the teleological argument. He believed that an intelligent designer has had to create the universe for such a purposeful thing could not have just come to be. But how could one prove this? He validated his beliefs by using an analogy of a watch and a watchmaker....
Denialism
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
The use of term 'denialism' has proliferated and its academic explanatory power is used to examine and study the cause of false beliefs and misperceptions. The concept itself is devoid of concrete meaning it has been stretched in various academic and other directions to accommodate...
One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor: Differing Views on Criminology
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Crime has been studied, analyzed, thought about, talked about, and think tanked to death. Depending on the area of the world in which one lives, and the governing politics of the day, one can find a social theory that fits his or her own personal agenda. After studying Becarria and Rick Linden,...
How did the media, political and academic discourses portray young people in Britain, and what were the effects of these representations?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
A discourse is a communication process which has the power to define a certain subject matter or topic and consequently directs the perception of people regarding that same subject matter or topic. It is a systematic and communicative method of forming knowledge and forwarding this knowledge as...
The struggle for female identity in a male dominated world
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Throughout history, the female has been, at the best of times underappreciated, and at the worst of times, demonized and persecuted. While many Feminist writers believe that this particular brand of prejudice originally stemmed from the story of Eve tempting Adam to fall from grace in the Garden...
Problem-solving: On the academic and the Mundane
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Problem solving is second nature to people. There are always challenges to be solved and solutions to be put forward. Daily life is certainly a collection of circumstances and instances that needs to be taken to be in consideration -- and that's even before a person leaves the house. What...
Role of government in policy making
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Most of us learned how the different parts of our government worked when we were in school. I cannot speak for everyone, but I know in my class not all of us knew how this would affect our adult life. Some of us only paid enough attention to understand how it worked in order to pass the class or...
Evaluating eligibility rules
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
All social programs have a list of requirements a client must meet in order to be eligible to receive their services. Not every program will have the same criteria in which eligibility is based on, just as not every person will qualify for all programs. The qualifications depend on the type of...
My student survival guide
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Under the Library tab is a vast amount tools to help students with many different areas of their studies. I will talk about those I have used previously and intend to explore more within the future of my experience at Axia. I have used the University Library to do research and have searched...
Water resources: Ottawa River Clean-Up
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The Ottawa River has been an ongoing problem with pollution. Pollution and contaminates can, and most often do, include; heavy metals, detergents, organic pollution, and other pollutants which include chlorine, pesticides, raionuclides, acids and alkalis (Zmuida, 2012). People have been dumping...
Water resource plan: Letter to the editor
Sample letter - 2 pages - Educational studies
Recently there was an article published in your paper on freshwater pollution and contaminates. There is a way of solving this problem and I have mapped out a plan in which I feel could help the situation. Pollution and contaminates can, and most often do, include; heavy metals, detergents,...
Opposing viewpoints: Autism is a serious public health crisis
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
According to Anne McElroy Dachel, Autism is now becoming an epidemic because of the increase of cases now being reported as compared to 20 years ago. Dachel, I feel is biased because her child was diagnosed with Autism almost 20 years ago and at the time of his diagnosis not much was known about...
Critique and supports the role of psychology in education
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Psychology is a subject that should be studied by everyone since it makes it easier to understand other people to enable you to respond appropriately and timely to their needs. This is especially important in learning institutions. It is vital that instructors in schools where majority are...
Origin population and distribution of the Dagestan and Caucasus groups
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In the last decade, genetic variation in the human mtDNA has been studied extensively. About 99% of the population in Europe and America has been studied and general patterns have been explained. Ten mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have been used to categorize them. These are H, I, J, K, M, T, U,...
Perioperative procedures
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Provision of quality healthcare should be the ultimate goal of any health practitioner and institution. The process begins when a patient entrust their wellbeing to the practitioner. Be it a nurse, medical doctor, surgeon or pharmaceutical. One of the most important stages during surgical...
Arguments for and against active euthanasia
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Euthanasia is often referred to as mercy killing and has been undertaken in the medical profession for years to put patients with long illnesses out of suffering. Active euthanasia on the other hand, means that another person other than the patient intentionally ends a patient's life, for...
Personal responsibility and peacemaking
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The US is 300 million strong and counting. Sure, the indiscretions of George W. Bush led to the Iraq War, but there are 300 million people who could do something about it. Think about it this way, George W. Bush may have waged the war, but he did not fight it. Soldiers did the fighting. Workers...
"Explain how much is constructed by the reader / viewers own socio-cultural make-up in the creation and reception of the Fantastic"
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The effectiveness of a literary piece lies in its power to move the readers to see their lives connected or related to it. In fact, every author, in writing any piece of literature, faces a challenge of making his/her work appeal to the life experiences of people. Definitely, the author's task is...
A critical analysis of mills utilitarianism
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
The most basic axiom of utilitarianism holds happiness as measure of the greatest good. As a moral theory, utilitarianism is considered a form of consequentialism and, thus, focuses on the results of actions to determine whether they are, or are not, moral. Utilitarianism aims to define “the...
