Science Essays

Sharon Begley starts her article “The Parent Trap” by naming several common “nurture assumptions” that most educated people have come to take for granted, such as “reading and talking to children fosters a love of reading,” and “physical abuse makes them aggressive. ” She then introduces Judith Rich Harris in a quick overview of her […]

In tracing the development of my personality, as who I am today, I need to go back to my childhood years. I have to even go as far back as the time when my mother began to breast feed me. For according to some psychoanalytical tool those periods in my life may offer a clue […]

The Definition: Many times when faced with a hard decision to make or one that involves many different factors or consequences the executive tends to look for “an educated guess” or “take a calculated risk” but no real calculation is done nor any education is obtained to deal with uncertainty concerning the decision. The main […]

Being a mother is a job of its own, in consequence being a working mother is an even greater job. It never dawned on me that mothers work a second shift. Second shift work is the unpaid work women do after their paid work is done. You will think that as adults, we all have […]

I would like to thank my mom with helping me with my science project. She has helped me with researching the internet to find my science fair project. She helped me with finding the information that is needed to do my experiment and preparing my science proposals. She also helped me with researching the following […]

The universe we live in is filled with a perplexing array of diverse perspectives which may often confuse us. Our understanding of the world, rooted in our common sense, could possibly be flawed with biases and errors unknowingly. We gather information about our surroundings through aspects like language, emotion, observation, and reasoning, yet none of […]

Protagoras from Abdera was among the group called Older Sophists, who were intellectuals and travelling tutors of fifth-century Greece, specializing in rhetoric (the art of effective or persuasive speaking) and its associated fields. His noteworthy phrase is: “Man is the measure of all things: of those that exist, because they do exist, and of those […]

“Please complete a one page personal statement and submit it with your application. “ How would you describe yourself as a human being? What quality do you like best in yourself and what do you like least? What would you most like to see flourish and which would you like to see wither? ” Describe […]

Garreau provides unique insight into the possible outcome of our future. In his book “Radical Evolution” he discusses four scenarios; Singularity, Heaven, Hell, and Prevail. Each of these scenarios are highly opinionative and each person can decide for their selves which scenario will most likely occur. Garreau, without a doubt, is a pioneer in the […]

The process of communication involves the sharing of meaning between living organisms. It consists of a sender, a message, and an intended recipient. The recipient does not necessarily have to be aware or present during the communication, allowing for communication to happen across great distances in time and space. For communication to occur, the parties […]

The implications of the use of the Triple Bottom Line approach in the events industry: A case study of ‘Dubai pet show’. Every business just focuses on how they could achieve their economical, social and environmental success in today’s scary era of environmental and social responsibility, before organizations just thought about profit, profit and more […]

The movie talks about the eruption of northern cascades mountain which took place in America. Set in the fictional town of Dante’s Peak, Washington, located in the northern Cascade Mountains, the film is somewhat based on the real-life eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991, […]

Technological advances have been gaining more and more information over the past years and by doing so, they are able to advance their technology each and everyd ay. These improvements have helped but they also have the potential to hinder society. The Flying Machine, Locks, Computers and Why we Play God, and, Zap! It’s the […]

Moral science is taught as a subject in most schools. Not always with a great deal of effectiveness. Perhaps, part of the problem lies in the fact that morality is not a science, strictly speaking. It is too much of a social phenomenon and there is too much of the personal and subjective mixed within, […]

Life Course Approach to an individual’s development began in the twentieth century, and was a full-fledged theory by the 1990’s. Giele and Elder define a life course as “a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time” (qtd. in “Life Course Theory”). The discipline involves studying the development of individual […]

The unique features of the science fiction genre enable it to delve into the potential risks posed by developments in science and technology. This can be seen in the satirical piece “Brave New World” written by Aldous Huxley, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I Robot, directed by Alex Proyas. These various works all […]

Communication is the skill which made us distinct amongst the animals. Along with our ability to think, it has brought progress in the world. Since we have been born with superb inbuilt tools for communication, we often think we are born with good communication skills too. Wonder why? Just because we have been doing it […]

Sequence stratigraphy is a method of stratigraphic interpretation that combines the chronological order of the accumulation of sediments, their stratal architecture and the geometric relationships of their facies to determine depositional setting and predict stratal continuity. The workflow of sequence stratigraphic analysis first identifies the genetic units and bounding surfaces that compose the stratigraphic section […]

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a nineteenth century gothic novel that demonstrates the discovery of the nature of electricity. In the novel, electricity plays a major role in creating the life of the monster. Shelley introduces science, especially electricity as an ethical theme and shows it through the life and demise of Victor Frankenstein and […]

“In probability and statistics, Student’s t-distribution (or simply the t-distribution) is a continuous probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small” (Narasimhan , 1996). Similar to the normal distribution, the t-distribution is symmetric and bell-shaped, but has heavier tails, meaning that it […]

The works of both Rachel Carson and Daniel Quinn make us take a second look at everyday events that we usually take for granted, at the harm that almost always goes unnoticed. Both authors question the validity of the implicit human claim that the earth belongs to us and that we must “advance” ourselves no […]

“Normalization is the single most important result of our work“(Absorbent Mind-pg:204,chapter 19) According to Dr: Maria Montessori normalization (the child’s true nature) is one of her main discoveries. Normalization is a word taken from anthropology meaning “becoming a contributing member of the society”. The young children with short attention span learning to focus and concentrate […]