Essays on Philosophy Annotated Bibliography

The main focus of the paper "Racial Segregation in American Schools" is on demonstrating that most extreme segregation in public schools is in the Western States, on mixing up students from poor backgrounds with those from privileged or rich families and so on.... ... ... ... While news media frequently heap attention on high-poverty schools that work, study displays that middle-class schools are twenty-two-times more likely to be doing exceedingly well than high-poverty learning centres....

This annotated bibliography "Proton Exchange Membrane Materials for Fuel Cells" evaluates the development of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells or Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, including the challenges such as the high cost of technology and polymer treatment.... .... ... ... This paper evaluates the various research studies' recent advances and challenges regarding the commercial development of PEMFC....

This paper "Innovation Policy's Impact on Organizations" discusses technology policy that has to bear in mind that innovation is more complex than a simple model of science and technology leading to innovation.... Metcalfe moves on to distinguish between types of policy and innovation.... ... ... ...

The author examines the articles concerning stress management and mental health.... The author states that in the constantly advancing world, the need to have a quality stress management and mental health mechanism as one of the most crucial subjects of concern in ensuring success.... ... ... It is very important to note that this movie provides a diverse set of information on the subject of trauma....

The paper "Communication with Fibromyalgia" establish patterns of communication in patient-doctor interaction that is vital in establishing a viable relationship.... The patterns identified should be encouraged to be put in use by the professionals on the occasions of giving care to the patients....

The paper "Children's Literature Studies" is annotated bibliography of such books as "The lost thing" by Tan, "The true story of the 3 little pigs" by Scieszka, J.... Wolf, A.... & Smith, L.... "The little house" by Burton, V.... L.... and "Where the wild things are" by Sendak, M.... ... ... ...

This paper focuses on how joining college means to give up time for students and devote all their time to studies and achieving high grades in order to be successful in the future, get a good job, earn for the family and basically live a happy life.... .... ... ... Unfortunately some people don't think that way; they believe that college is a burden to their life and that it isn't beneficial at all....

The paper "Stem Cell Treatment for Parkinson's Disease to Produce Dopaminergic Neurons" reports that through animal and human models, research studies have shown that dopaminergic neurons produced in vitro can actually halt the destruction of dopamine neurons in the brain as a result of PD.... ... ...

The paper "Multidimensionality of the Alcohol Withdrawal" supposes that the intention of the researchers was to assess the efficiency and safety of baclofen for alcohol-dependent patients with AW using the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment of Alcohol Scale, Revised, and other related issues....

The purpose of this review is to evaluate and review research completed within the last ten years comparing the effects of anaerobic exercise to those of strength training exercise such as "Exercise therapy in type-2 diabetes, Is daily exercise required to optimize glycemic control?... .... ... ... This study sought to determine if short-term aerobic exercise training improved blood flow following ingestion of glucose....

The paper contains the annotated bibliography of articles about the education at Northern Illinois University such as "Northern Illinois University: Reflections on semiotics, visual culture, and pedagogy" and "Northern Illinois University: Intersections of Semiotics and Visual pedagogy" .... ... ...

This research puts an effort with regard to cultural prototypes or form expectations influences how individuals observed written documents in the language of their own.... The result study point that prototype that are stylistic exist in the documentation that are technical and are attached to divisions in national culture than the culture that is professional....

The bibliography "Lesson Planning and Planning Journal for English as a Second Language" focuses on the critical analysis of the process of lesson planning and planning journal for English as a Second Language course that features the Adult Migrant English Program.... ... ... ... Facilitation of the course will take place at TAFE....

The paper "ILWU vs.... PMA Negotiations' Negative Impact on Retail Sales" critically analyzes bibliographic material on the negative impact of the negotiations between ILWU and PMA on retail sales.... Farris (2008) describes the ILWU as a labor union that primarily represents dockworkers on the West Coast of the US....

The paper "The Impact on Children Living with Domestic Violence" highlights that in many existing kinds of literature, many children perceived family hostility negatively, but mostly blamed their fathers, whom they pointed out to be the cause of violence in their homes.... ... ... ... Many researchers have studied the topic of household violent behaviour and its negative impacts on children....

Information Technology reporting and metrics has two issues that are paramount: regular reporting and effective IT security metrics.... A formalized IT security reporting framework is necessary for adoption by a regulated institution.... .... ... ... The framework should provide operational information and oversight in all sectors in IT security in relation to risk management framework....

The importance of supply chain management depends much on the length of the supply chains (Lu 30).... Where supply chains are very short,.... ... ... The paper "Supply Chain Management" is an outstanding example of a management annotated bibliography.... Supply chain management is an effective and efficient management of all activities that take place from primary suppliers to the market place....

The source discusses the different stereotypes and degrading images that are portrayed on television.... Some of the media is said to have a harmful impact on children.... The document discusses whether or not TV influences others or TV shows influence events that take place for reasons other than TV persuasion....

The paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles 'The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labor" by Basu, "Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women" by Susan Lehrer, 'Labor Standards and International Competitiveness" by Raynauld and Jean-Pierre Vidal.... ...

The paper "Chinese Tourism" highlights that the author compares the financial condition of the two nations and asserts that against our expectation that Chinese are poor than their Korean counterparts, the fact is that Chinese appear richer when their spending habits are observed.... ... ... ... A totally different perspective of the Korean behavior for the Chinese is presented when the author writes that 'there are places long assessable to the Chinese that have only recently been opened to other tourists'....

From the paper "Process-Oriented Methodology, Ethics and Role of Involvement of Ethics" it is clear that the authors define different narratives at theoretical and conceptual levels; and proving the significance of the reality of such problems, a number of cases have been reported, discussed.... ...

The bibliography "Is Parental Involvement Relevant to Academic Achievements?... focuses on the critical analysis of the discussion on children's academic successes.... In other words, it discusses whether parental involvement is relevant to academic achievements.... ... ... ... It goes without saying that doing well in school can lead to greater opportunities for children to further their education and in the job market overall....

The paper "Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment" describes that when carrying out studies on exercise interventions it is important to understand that neurogenesis takes place within the hippocampus, a structure that is important for learning a memory.... ... ... ... Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a neuropathologically distinct slowly progressive tauopathy that is known to have environmental etiology....

The paper "Immigrant High School Dropouts" discusses that dropping out of school is an undesirable thing by many parents.... However, the immigrant populations in America have proved to be more prone to dropping out of school before they complete high school.... ... ... ... The authors acknowledge the presence of complex variables with the potential of serving as barriers in education....

As the paper "The Suitable Age for Second Language Acquisition" tells, second language acquisition has always been a debated topic in the field of education because it has become quite a necessity for children to learn a second language which is one of the requirements for education at all levels....

The paper "Developing Service-Oriented Solutions" highlights that the authors of the article have presented a fractal software development model that enables service-oriented modeling and architecture method to come up with a new approach that goes beyond the cycle of software development.... ... ...

"The Incorporation of Immigrant Migrants in Growing Urban Areas in Saudi Arabia" paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles such as "New facets of urban segregation in Southern Europe: Gender, migration and social class change in Athens" by Arapoglou, V.... P.... and J.... Sayas.... ...

However, his leadership Philosophy came in for a lot of criticisms by many historians.... However, his leadership Philosophy came in for a lot of criticisms by many historians.... Theodore's great reforms and his spectacular style of leadership left a lasting impression in the life of Franklin and this is what served as a moulding factor for his own Philosophy of leadership.... This post also served to influence Franklin's leadership Philosophy to a great extent and this influence is seen reflected in the many reforms that he brought about in the Navy....

The paper contains the annotated bibliography of articles about the ethical leadership.... The annotated bibliography is divided into such sections as a definition of ethical leadership, characteristics of ethical leaders, models of ethical leadership, ethical leadership in politics and education ...

From the paper "Multiliteracy in Early Years" it is clear that the instructional strategies and methods used should have the objective of enabling students to understand how different meanings are constructed using resources of language, image, and digital rhetorics.... ... ... ... The article first explores the characteristics of a multiliterate curriculum and then identifies four areas of pedagogy (productive pedagogies) - intellectual quality, interconnectedness, supportive classroom environment, and recognition of diversity- which could be improved for better learning outcomes....

This paper, Surrogacy in the USA, stresses that there is one issue today that has escaped most of the media's attention but a topic that is equally important to some people.... This issue is surrogacy, or to be more precise, the surrogate motherhood controversy.... .... ... ... As the paper outlines, the surrogate motherhood debate has moralists and ethicists arguing over many unanswered questions regarding this practice which has grown more widespread as medical science opened new possibilities for becoming a parent....

With Hellenistic Philosophy subtly permeating the early Apostolic tradition which can be specifically seen in the Letters of Saint Paul, the Greek concept of Body-Soul, Heaven-Earth, Life here- and Life after invaded the originally integrated interpretation of the Jews.... The Second Look at Jesus is the dominant perspective of the churches today which is heavily influenced by Greek Philosophy and Christendom theology when the Church and the State were still united during the feudal and Dark Ages....

The paper "Human Resource Practices " is a great example of human resources annotated bibliography.... It is quite evident that there exist strong links between employee engagement and performance management.... Mone et al (2011) indicate that there exists substantial evidence that suggests that performance management can widely be conceptualized as a fundamental framework....

All hospitals are fueled by the ultimate desire to excel.... This implies devising and implementing performance management systems, which outdo those of the competition.... However, very few hospitals have managed to be unique in this quest.... .... ... ... Assessing a hospital's performance management system will highlight the need for optimal internal evaluation and assessment systems....

This paper stresses that the ability to apply spiritual and cultural models is one which is congruent with every area of life.... Emotional applications in any environment provide stronger capacity for change and stability to manifestation within a given area of one's life.... .... ... ... As the paper, Spiritual Cultural Models, outlines, applying and understanding various models are able to provide deeper insight into the importance of spiritual and cultural changes within various environments and the impact which this creates toward one's life....

The paper "Refugee Challenges, Stressors, and Mental Health" aims at establishing the trends in factors influencing the mental health of the refugees and the barriers preventing the uptake of associated services to inform policy considerations for ensuring effective service delivery.... ... ... ... This annotated bibliography focuses on the stressors affecting the mental health of migrants and refugees....

In the field of academics, motivation and self-Regulation plays a significant role in the establishment and attainment of goals.... Self-regulation techniques can never be segregated with one's goals.... Goals are nothing but setting the milestones to be achieved to do particular task qualitatively and quantitatively....

In the opinion of the author emphasis on trade without considering the socio-economic and political involvement of the local communities explains the emerging wage disparities across.... ... ... The paper "Impact of Trade on Inequality" is a wonderful example of an annotated bibliography on macro and microeconomics....

Although the earlier sections do focus on prehistory and the times of the Roman Empire, the latter sections of the book do contain information about the “Rise of the West” and the influences that other cultures have had on Western history, Philosophy and politics.... It gives insight into the elements that the West “borrowed” from other cultures by integrating it into their own, including parts of Philosophy, language and culture.... Much of the focus of this book is on the Renaissance and the effect that this had on Western history, Philosophy and art....

"Reading Journal in Natural Resource Policy and the Community" paper contains an analysis of such articles as "Environmental Ethics, Social Response and Policy" by Lynch, Tony & Brunckhorst, "The Limits and Promise of Environmental Ethics: Eco-Socialist Thought and Anthropocentrism's Virtue".... ....

This initial phase provides the Philosophy of justice that indicates the fair premises of mutual aid among citizens and indicates when the basic institutions of a society are just.... This initial phase provides the Philosophy of justice that indicate the fair premises of mutual aid among citizens and indicate when the basic institutions of a society are just.... nthropocentrism is a concept from environmental political Philosophy suggesting an ethical system that is human-centric, typically in opposition to ecocentrism....

This will see the government minimize on the subsidies it offers for the provision of water and electricity.... The move by governments to.... ... ... The paper "Applying Microeconomic Theory to Real World" is a great example of an annotated bibliography on macro and microeconomics.... Using UAE Articles Review of first article Abstract In Abu Dhabi, electricity and water tariffs for both the expatriates and Emirates are expected to be revised with effect from 1st Jan 2014....

Philosophy Now.... Philosophy Now.... This paper is annotated bibliography that explores such works as 'Pop Culture: An Overview' by Tim Delaney, "Role of Recreation in Promoting Social Inclusion" by Donnelly Peter and Jay Coakley, "A.... Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life" by Shirley Fedorak....

Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis.... Buddhism involves a methodology and a practice of training the minds on significant of cultivating good deeds, wisdom, and concentration.... The teaching emphasizes on ensuring that human actions and spoken words should remain.... ... ...

Taylor who is a singer, song-writer and an actress and is best known for country and pop music as well as TV shows and Movies was.... ... ... Taylor has a younger brother called Austin whom she grew up with (“Taylor Alison Swift”, 2014).... Her father owned a Christmas tree farm, where she spent most of her childhood years....

This paper ''The Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Fibromyalgia'' tells us that this research study reveals about inter-linkage between mood disorders and fibromyalgia, which generate a process of pathophysiological in the brain.... The study also describes the difference between depression and fibromyalgia....

(2010) Global Trade and Environmental Impact Study of the EU Biofuels Mandate, Final Draft Report Submitted to the Directorate General for Trade, European Commission ... ... n their report, Al-Riffai et al.... (2010) illustrate that the global.... ... ... The paper "Examining the Sustainable Procurement Practices in the Public Sector " is an outstanding example of a management annotated bibliography....

"Award Winning Books" paper contains an annotedbibliography of such books as "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian" authored by Alexie, and "Home of the brave" by Applegate, "Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine" by Bartoletti.... .... ... ... Forney's illustrations reflect Junior's cartoons and chronicle a native American's adolescence....

The paper contains the annotated bibliography of articles about families and substance abuse such as "Elevated risk of tobacco dependence among offspring of mothers who smoked during pregnancy" and "Prenatal substance abuse: short- and long-term effects on the exposed fetus" .... ... ... Nash et al....

This bibliography "Modes of Uban Entertainment and the Different Ways it Affects Our Day to Day Activities " analyses the influence of urban entertainment.... Urban entertainment has grown over time and has had changes over the years; and has had both positive and negative influences on our lives....