Pragmatism

Social Entrepreneurship Course Reflection In almost the entire Philippines today we experience poverty caused by inequality where the gap between the Filipino rich and the poor is relatively high and alarming. Poverty has always been present even in the past governments. It is one of the biggest and most evident problems in the Philippines considering that we are a developing country. According to the dictionary, poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods,…

1. Describe the Spanish American War including how the United States became involved. What was gained by the United States a result of the war? The Spanish-American War (1898) was a battle between the United States and the Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and brought about United States acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The war started in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which started in February of 1895. The Cuban clash…

In the field of criminology law, an important aspect involves the validation and actualization of the actual causes of crime. The fact that criminal activities continue to persist our society means that understanding the real cause of crimes will remain to be complex (Bursik, 2008). However, various law criminologists have postulated various theories that attempt to explain the different causes of crime in our society. The theoretical understanding of the causes of crime helps in the…

Castro was respected by his followers for he brought them a sense of hope; he promised general elections, free land, free speech and improvements to their quality of life. He promised to free them from the oppression under the regime of President Batista. His Marxist views resonated with the poor and uneducated in Cuba and the life he sought for them and the vision he conveyed allowed him to build followership and elevate his power and status. “It is true that it (the revolution) follows its…

I have always been interested in people and what they do and think, and choosing social science just felt right to me. However, I have have seen very few undergraduate urban planning programs, and I like that the University of Maryland, University College fits in with my working-adult lifestyle, even though they do not offer a specific major for urban planning. The Princeton Review explains how "Urban Planning majors study the socio-economic factors and conditions behind housing projects in the…

Snehalatha Bhrijbhushan was a young girl with a bright future ahead of her as the author states, “[she] is going to become someone famous, someday.” (Subramaniam, 2000) People around her are also expecting her into achieving great things. Snaha was very intelligent and wants to be a scientist. Sneha wants to pursue her dream in the Land of the Blue Devil. However, the rumor about the land that people who went there have not came back. On the other hand, it rates as the land of the kind and…

Ratcliffe’s theory of rhetorical listening consists of four parts: “promoting an understanding of self and other,” “proceeding within an accountability logic,” “locating identifications across commonalities and differences,” and “analyzing claims as well as the cultural logics within which these claims function” (26). By following these guidelines and engaging in rhetorical listening, feminists can better understand the intersections that unite us as well as the intersections that create…

modern educational philosophies consistently reject the absolute truths of the traditional philosophic teachings of Plato and Aristotle. Thus, these modern philosophies believe that truth is relative and based on the changing opinions of the masses (pragmatism) or the perspectives of each individual (existentialism). Each of these views fails to recognize the absolute truths found in the order and structure of the universe. Many people who consider themselves Christians also believe that truth…

Holocaust. Moreover, now that the war has passed since the poem’s publishing, it seems logical that when Hecht writes “by the law,” he refers to the current law that he believes must punish Nazis for their misdeeds. Unlike Hughes, Hecht presents greater pragmatism in his depiction of love through bigotry; when it comes to love, Hecht certainly perceives the justice that must come. Conversely, Hughes is not as sure as Hecht concerning love’s relationship with hatred and racism, or so it seems.…

League would have to deal. I was unable, therefore, to plan all the machinery that might be necessary to meet differing and unexpected contingencies.” However, while Wilson’s diplomatic idealism was perhaps too lofty to effectively address the pragmatism of realpolitik, his conception of a League of Nations, self-determination, and global peace were all applied in some form by Roosevelt and his counterparts Churchill and Stalin at the Yalta conference, which itself was the beginning of the…