Piamarie Lindahl Loughman Capstone European History 2 November 2016 Research Project Proposal Proposal title : Women’s Status Affects Scientific Research Research Question: How did the woman status affect the works of Maria Winkelmann Kirch during the scientific revolution. Between the 15th and the 16th century, Maria Winkelmann Kirch became a German astronomer regardless of the obstacles that faced many female scientists. Winkelmann strongly believed that she equally deserved the type of…
“The Mistrust of Science” by Atul Gawande is a commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. Atul Gawande calls upon the institutes graduates to take a stance and defend the common misconceptions and myths about scientific issues concerning today’s society. The commencement’s main goal was to use a logical thought process to defend the scientific evidence against common misconception. For example, Atul Gawande says “They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies… when…
According to the constructivism theory, people perceive similar things differently due to an individual subjective approach to understanding, cognition and conceptualization of meaning. As thus, the inherent perceptions and attitudes are constructed and apportioned differently to things and people depending on an individual’s own experiences and reflection of those experiences (Olson, 2015). Therefore, the concept and perception towards superheroes, which is a connotation of stock characters…
Tidying My Life Do you ever wonder how to declutter and organize? The book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is the perfect read for me because I love organizing. Her book teaches readers how to declutter and organize in a process she simply calls tidying. Kondo’s methods and steps in this best seller can help you organize like a pro. By reading this book I became inspired, and I learned many things; moreover, applying these ideas to my life was simple, and I attained…
Hi, my name is Jessica and my presentation is on mental health. In this presentation, I am going to talk about what mental health is and the different kind of conditions you can get, the early warning signs of mental health problems, why you can experience mental health problems, and what help is available for those who suffer. If you have any questions please keep them until the end. What is mental health? • Everyone has mental health, it is important in every stage of life, you can have good…
be able to test the evidence fully. He states that if you create your theory after finding evidence, there is no way to test the validity of the theory using that evidence. According to Keynes, he stated that those who provide evidence after coming up with a hypothesis essentially will have more weight placed on it as oppose to a theory that is created surrounding the findings. This is due to the fact that grounds which the theory has been created didn't come from nowhere.…
In this essay I will be writing about what devising tools define the work of Pina Bausch, in my introduction I will be introducing Pina Bausch and her background and in my main body of text I will talk about the devising tools that define her work, then finally in my conclusion I will summarise everything I have written about in this essay. Pina Bausch was born Philippina Bausch in 1940 in Solingen, Germany. Bausch was a modern dance performer, and choreographer. When Pina was 15 she was…
Locke’s Essays on Human Understanding continue to be taught, discussed and debated today. In particular, Locke’s personal identity theory is considered to still be extremely relevant in modern times. In personal identity theory Locke explains the distinction between the definition of words, such as human, person and substance, which he claims are often used to convey the same meaning. Then Locke discusses the main factor that suggests the sameness of personal identity – consciousness, and…
essential materials included in the building of the house, it would merely be a pile of bricks with no structure and meaning. Henri Poincare uses this house as a metaphor for science. He ultimately compares the building of a house to shaping a stream of theories and facts into logical text. The relationship between the parts and the bricks must be significant in completing the task. Without this relationship between the parts and the bricks,…
People become addicts because of the need for something that they do not have. And they do not have it because of their childhoods. His theory would even explain why people do not have addiction problems until perhaps fifty years after the trauma. It would most likely be because of a trigger that would cause them to lose the…