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Academic and everyday intelligence: contrasting memory and embodied skills

Academic intelligence: critically examining an essay, reading an academic text, computing the answers to a math exam, finding a book using the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress System in a library, arguing with a fellow student on a critical level about a topic in class, participating in an…

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Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" and population control solutions

In Garrett Hardin's essay "Tragedy of the Commons," the author presents a radical solution to the overpopulation problem. The title of the essay refers to a scenario presented by a mathematician in 1833. In the scenario, a communal pasture is enjoyed by several herdsmen in a given area.

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Capitalism, the creative class, and erosion of freedom in private life

Arlie Hochschild and Richard Florida have written essays details how capitalism has caused deeply entrenched cultural changes in American social life. In her essay Out of the Frying Pan..., Hochschild focuses on how capitalism has wrought changes in intimate life, such as family relations.

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The NBA's prep-to-pro draft policy and high school recruitment

According to Brian Hindo's essay entitled "The NBA's Youth Squad," the drafting of high school age athletes by the National Basketball Association may be rapidly coming to an end.

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Roberto Rossellini's Paisan and the emergence of Italian neorealism

According to Andre Bazin's essay "An aesthetic of reality: Neorealism," Paisan as directed by Roberto Rossellini brought forth a new aesthetic in the discourse of film, that of neorealism.

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Comparing Guttman, Ross, and Mandelbaum on baseball and America

The three essays on baseball, by Allen Guttman, Murray Ross and Michael Mandelbaum, are all well written and supply unique opinions and ideas about baseball and America that are interesting but quite different.

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Necessary and sufficient conditions for fallacious arguments

Nothing is a fallacious argument unless it is an argument.

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How culture affects teaching styles and classroom communication

The purpose of this essay is to review the literature pertinent to a proposed research question. The research is intended to answer how culture can affect teaching styles and how multi-culturalism may influence the ability for successful communication within the classroom.

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Comparing Hobbes and Locke on social contract and human nature

Hobbes and Locke both agree on the argument that social contract plays a key role in determining the political stability of a state. However, despite this agreement, their philosophies are both based on different visions of human nature.

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Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis versus Inglehart and Norris

In Huntington’s (1993) essay “The Clash of Civilizations?” the political scientist posited that whereas nation states had been aligned previously on cultural terms in the past, in the coming years of the modern world these terms would become disjointed as various cultures emerged or re-asserted…

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